New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-11
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

The physicians of New York ronort an
alarming increase of cancer on the nose
caused by the practice Of wearing eyeglasses
that are held to the bridge of the nose by a
| spring.
The African diamond fields are again
yielding largely, but there are a hundred
seekers to every valuable diamond. At one
place there are 10000 men searching for the
precious stones.
Alexis had in his possession quaint.
oid dagger with this inscription in Finnish
Whoever finds anything before it is lost. or
buys anything before it is for sale, shall die
before he is sick"
"A girl in Mount Pleasant, Illinois, found
life burden because she was afflicted with
warts on her hands so she drowned herself
Ihere was something appropriate in her seek
Ing watery grave.
The announcement in Japan that the
American Government intends to ask that
the whole country, or at least the tea districts.
be thrown open to foreigners, has met with
approval in that country. -
The records of the "Early Closing Assoc
citation" in London show that the results of
that movement are highly beneficial not only
to the clerks, who gain more time for recrea,
ton, but to the merchants themselves.
The production Of anthracite coal thus
far this year shows an increase of 1855, O98
tons over the receipts at the same time last
year. Yet the operators expect higher prices
than they are obtaining now for the rest of
the season.
An old negro appeared in Florida court
the other day, and begged that he might be
allowed to bear the punishment adjudged to
his wife, who had been arrested for Stealing
clothes. The judge refused his petition. but
the jury found the wife "not guilty.
The following ludicrous sentence is the
result of compositOrs erroneous punctua,
ton: Caesar entered upon his head, his
helmet upon his feet, armed sandals upon his
brow, cloud in his right hand, his faithful
sword in his eye, an angry glare"
The largest cargo of oats ever shipped
from any port, consisting of los 900 bushels,
was on Saturday morning towed out of tho
Chicago harbor in the Union Steamboat
Lines large iron steamer Java. The Board
ofTrade turned out masse upon the wharves
and greeted the Java with farewell songs.
The Government of Denmark has given
orders that all Mormon missionaries within
its domains shall be lied up and fIogsed. and
one OF the apostles has been actually treated
in this manner. We haven't hiah idea of
that manner of punishment; but if it is ever
excusable or advisable it certainly is in such
cases.
An Alabama alligator very gracefully
masticated valuable stag hound belonging
to gentleman in Eutaw the other day. As
the owner had already lost one dog in the
same manner he determined to bring to
punishment the fell destroyer, and baited six
~ Al.
creature gulped down the hog liver, hooks
and all, broke the line, and leisurely swan
away.
Calculations, which are proved to be ac-
curate by the most thorough investigations,
show that the loss thus far occasioned in
New York by the eight-hour strike has been
$40 800, 900, of which nearly 81, 900, 900 fall
directly upon the strikers themselves. The
suspension of work in the manufactures has
already had the effect to drive a vast amount
of trade away from the metropolis.
"A party of men animatedIy engaged in
discussing politics before country store, at
tracted the attention of an aged agricuturist.
There's sumthn' the matter here, ;" he OBJ
served to his wife and, drawing in his team,
he lightly shouted to a consumptive indi-
vidual on the outskirts, "What's afoot ??''
''Twelye inches" was the sardonc reply.
The aged agriculturist swore some, and
drove on. -,
What a galaxy of recruits is that now
railyng around the Greeley banner! Hero
they are as enumerated and labeled by the
Albany *. W Erenorg Journal: ANDY
johnson, the political traitor; JEFF. Davis,
the national traitor; Admiral Semmes, the
pirate; General Beauregard, the inventor of
the cry of booty and beauty > Oakley Hall,
ha MI, tho ..r,fia
list; Andrews, the rioter; Cochrane, the dead
beat; Wood, the gambler; Morrissey, the
sporting man, Ct id Omrse genus-all that
crowd.'o s.r
There is paper published at Linn, Mo-,
called the UnfeTifed Democrat. 1t fayors
bolt, and volunteers the following informa-
ton: "There are some indications of a
heavy outside Democratic attendance at Bal
timore, to support true, dissenting delegates,
if any, and in any event to take the requisite
steps to place Democratic Presidential tick
ct in the field. Success to the effort, we
say-a thousand times over, in case the Con-
vention should assume to indorse either Re-
publican ticket, or adjourn without making
thorough Democratic nominations"
The Boston Globe of Tuesday says:
So The duty being off tea and coffee Con the
first day of JULY Al 900 chests of the former
article, and 5 1876 bags of coffee were taken
from the custom-house at this port yesterday.
Housekeepers and others may now reason
ably expect to purchase more of both these
articles for the same amount of money than
heretofore. There was large number of
arrivals at this port yesterday, especially of
sugar and molasses vessels. The aggregate
quantity of molasses received was ,79j hogs
heads and DDS tierces, and of sugar 2,490
hogsheads, liz tierces, and 1875 boxes"