The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-02-08

Inc end OF the woyd-to make money.
The proper place for spinsters-Isle of
What is bigger than the biggest nutmeg?
A nutmeg Crater.
"a bad book to read-a naughty biogra-
ply ian autobiography
Bcres that most people have to put up with
-neigh-bores.
when y womanl like sparrow? When
she u in earnest lin her nest.
= Sentiment for February - look before
You leap.
The price of the tail of Mrs OIe.r,'.
COW, In Chicago, has fallen to: one dollar an
inch.
BY direction of the Car, decree has
been issued making compulsory the use of
the Russian language in the primary schools
Of Poland.
The weather in Alabama has been in
tensely cold for several days, md snow
storm which occurred Monday, WAS the heav-
les in ten years.
The word Estate" spelled backwards is
'etats' in French. Il ia no, safe, however,
TO learn French simply by going back on
your English.
"A Common prac,ice-''The man who is
his own lawyer has a fool for his client"
We don't believe it; self defence is one Of
the first laws OF nature
"A careful country gentleman refused to
let his gardener plant three green gage trees
because he had an objection to any more-ga-
ges on his estate.
A precocious bow in public school out
West, who stands high in geography, Was
recently asked by mis- teacher where Africa
was located. He promptly answered: GAN
over the United States"
-"You don. work enough to earn your
salary" said the head Of a department in the
Custom House to one Of his clerks. "Workv'
exclaimed the young man; 81 worked hard
enough to get here; you surely don't ex-
pect NE TO work now am here"
AT the marriage OF Secretary Robson
mixed up with the catechism. When he
asked one Of the company, "What is your
name?' ard the person promptly responded
IN. or NJ, being asked why he did 50, he
said it was down in the book, so he thought
it was all right.
"A proposition is pending in the Vir-
ginia Legislature to appropriate sum Of
money to the erection Of marble slabs over
the graves of John Randolph, Of Roanoke,
and Judge Edmund Pendleton, Of Carolina.
The Empress Eugene is said to BE- con-
fident that before long she will return to
Paris as Empress, and that in this belief she
has written to her friends in that city that
she will be back there before next March.
| Gail Hamilton is to have salary OF
s., 900 as editor of Woods Household Mdga-
zine. Says the American Newspaper Re
| porter: How 4 dollar monthly magazine,
including contributions from the best writers
| at from $25 to $3.50 per article, can afford to
pay its editors from 81 900 to S, 900 salary,
Is financial problem.
DIR. Cumming, Who proPhesied that the
end of the world was at hand, has changed
his mind on that point. He lately delivered
. course entitled "a Retrospect in the Light
of Prophecy" in which he made the singu-
lar announcement that he did not believe the
world was erer to come to an end.
A Yankee in England, being annoyed by
the constant Boosting "a to the superiority OF
English girls, finally silenced laudation by
declaring that 'they had gal in Boston,
only IL yeais old, who could chew gum in
seven different languages, with her eyes
shut"
Smoked out.-A paper says: "Another
poor girl has died in Virginia from the use
OF tobacco, at the age of che hundred; she
was an orphan We can hardly say she
was Virginia Cutoff in her prime. She
had exceeded the allotted age BY a something
to put it classicalIy, quid!
-Knowledpe ia mower Granda. IN
grandpa-"Have you heard that strange
story about Mis- Simpkin's elopement"
Little Precocious-''Oh, / know all about
that" Grandma-"Indeed! should like
to know what it is that you don't know"
Little Precocious-"Well, then, I'll tell you
Il don't know my lessons for tomorrow"
"A clergyman in the country had stran-
ger preaching for him one day, and meeting
his beadle he said TO him: ''Well, Saun-
ders, how did you like the sermon today"
81 watna, sir, it was rather DER plain and
simple for me-" replied the beadle. 81 like
the sermons that bejumble the judgment and
confound the sense; oh, sir, never saw ane
that could come up to yourself at thatv'
Aneed0se Of Washinsten.
This anecdote is from Parton's biography
it il here stated, was out hunting in the
Virginia forests, accompanied by his faver-
lite hound, Governor. A heavy storm of rain
and mist came up, he lost his way, his pow
der became useless, and, to add TO the evils
and inconvenience OF his situation, he found
that he had not his pocket compass with
him. In this sorry plight, he wandered in
circles, as people do who are lost in the bush,
hn- Co. 10 l.l
save wild berries. tie was almost exhaust
ed, when happy thought occurred to him.
Tying his pocket flask and his powder flask
to the dogs tail, he fastened his long scarf
around the dogs neck, holding one end in
his hand. Then he planted a tremendous
kick in the animals lumber region. The
animal was so completely surprised at this
treatment that he stood for a moment para
lyzed, then wheeling about, he struck bee
line for home. 1t is curious but undoubted
fact that any sudden alarm or attack
will quicked dogs perceptive facul-
ties, render more subtle his scent and pow
erful his memory, and induce him, like Mar |
CO Bozzaris, to strike for his home. So the |
dog fec, and Washington followed desperate |
", over stumps through boys, into briars, un-
til, finally, the sash gave way. With one
uSiuCIluOuS ycb, Sill
further the frantic animal, the terrible bang
ing and Gathering Of the TASKS Of his heels
added to his speed, and ia moment he was
out Of sight. After hearty laugh at the in
cident, Washington leisurely marched in the |
direction the dog had taken. 1t was easy to
do 50 by observing the mossy side of the |
trees, the direction of the longer branches,
and the other sights with which an expert
enced hunter is acquainted. 1t was not long,
therefore, before he reached a clearing and |
was once more in safety. But, he adds, the /
dog, once faithfully attached to him, could |
not to the day Of its death endure his pres
ence or even hear his voice without relapsing
into an agony Of terror.
A desperate Fight n Nevada.
San Francisco papers contain the particu-
lars of most desperate and deadly eight be-
tween Charles Jones, an escaped convict from
the Nevada State Prison, and Francis s. Ar
mistead, who was pursuing the fugitive. Ar
instead found the track Of Jones about fifty |
miles from the head of Long Valley, on the |
San Joaquin river, and trailed him to Slaw-
sons shesp camp in Vidalia, where he was
Armntead told Jones that be |
wanted to engage . man to drive horses to |
Arizona. Jones hired to him for the trip,
and thus matters rested till morning. In the |
morning Armistead told Slawson what he |
was after, and said he expected to have trou-
bic with his prisoner. 1t seems that Jones
had q suspicion of what was going On, for
while the two men we're talking he went to |
the house, took Slawson's Henry rifle, and
when he came out aid: "Here, you id
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