The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-08-31
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WIT AND WISDOM.

AUSTRALIAN gold coins we're made cur
rent in England in 1863.
THE oyster trade Of New Orleans en-
ployS 5000 persons.
The proposed Tunnel under the Miauis-
sippi at Memphis Is to cost 30, ,OOO,O
THE number Of idiots who think they
can write campaign poetry is increasing
The Missouri girls are 80 sweet that the
local editors speak Of them as MolAsses
Milwaukee has had wooden wedding.
Henry Block was married to Amanda
Beard
In is suggested to those who desire In
travel cheaply, to get wrapped up in nov
Ell, and 70 by book post
/ An exasPerated Detroiter hurled brick
at Thomas Warden cat and broke the
nose Of a revered neighbor
A MAN who has scolding wife thinks
the Jaws Of death" nothing compared to
the laws Of the living"
THk washerwomeR Of Detroit are or
ganlzlng trades union, to protect them
selves against Chinese cheap labor"
A LEADING Judge in San Francisco, who
is worth two millions of dollars, used 10 be
the foreman Of an Albany fire company.
OVER 100 years passed after the discov-
cry Of America before permanent colOnies
we're established on the New England
coast.
A Nashville man recently shot one of
his most intimate friends, mistaking him
for a policeman who had come 70 arrest
him.
Is California a million acres are
devoted this year to the growth of wheat,
for which the farmers will receive about
| Sl5, 900, O00-
Two African slaves with their faces
much tattooed, driving with long reins a
pair Of ostriehes, are among the present
sensations of Paris.
Please to meet me IN paradise, Is the
way polite English girl put her farewell
note left for her mother TO read after the
former had suicided.
GONE WHARF white man can open on
Sunday is the inscription left in a win
dow Of a deserted barber shop in New
Bedford. Mass
SONE unscientihc thief recently robbed
a journalist Of his valise i'm Baltimore
train. He secured about two dollars worth
Of writing paper.
AMERICAN ladies III Paris are purchasing
all manner Of pretty things in which to
| shine resplendent next winter On Broad
way and Fifth avenue
A NOTORIOUS thief in New York entered
saloon on Wednesday night, and az Ne
was about to raise glass to his lips drop
ped dead at the bar
\ Buffalo clergyman sent around the
contribution boxes for the dear heather
and collected sixty cents, ten cents Of
which was in soda water checks
"A PRENoSIrIoN.-A new locomotive
named Horace Greeley" has Just been
turned ont of the Schenectady car shops
II ran ofF the track the first day
John Mullens. W Newman's Ridge.
/ Tenn, was driven 50 far into sand bank
| by stroke Of lightning that he had to be
PRED out with a crowbar. Erchdnqe
Wonder if IL hurt him any
a CNGNNATI wife left her husbands
| board but took the bed with her. He "a
/ puzzled t. know how to work legal no
tice Of warning to prospective creditors.
"A WAsHINGTuN youth escorted young
lazy up town via the horse cars, paying
her fare, matter If course The next
morning his mother called on the lady and
demanded back the ten cents that her hope
tul son had SO extrayagantly parted with
A negro named Jim johnson, il accused
Of poisoning twenty-six persons In Read
viii, Rockingham County, North Carolina,
by administering some deadly substance III
/ ice cream. The man Was arrested and com
mitted for trial Several II his victims
are not yet out of danger. and one or two
are not expected % receiver.
A RECENT copy of the London Times con
tanned the following advertisements IA
graduate Of Cambridge is required as Sec
und Master in the Gresham Grammar
School, Holt. Norfolk Stipend $50 Der
annum. lmmedlatey following. in the
same column, was this A good plain
cook wanted in a gent.r,.sll family. where
man and four uth,i servants are kept
Must clean doorsteps " ages Sl25." II
is clear that cooking and cleaning doorsteps
is better paid in England than teaching
school
ABERNETHY, the celebrated surgeon.
hndlng Large pile Of paving stone Oppo-
site to his door, on returning home one al
ternoon IN his carriage, swore hastily al
the pavlOr, and desired him to remove
them. = Where shall take them u w
asked the Hibernian. "To h-m cried
the choleric surgeon. Paddy leant upon
his rammer, and then looking upin his face.
said, with an arch smile, Hadn't bet
ter take them TO Heaven sure they'd be
more out Of your honor's way.
HERR Cramer klet, manufacturer of
Nuremberg, celebrated the twenty-fifth an
iversary Of his wedding ~ jubilee. He
presented his 5000 operatives with 1000
forms to 60 TO the Vienna Exposition, 81. "
OOO for building working mems houses, rs, y
OOO for single persons to build houses, 80,
600 forins worth Of building lots, I5O. 900
for building tenement houses, 2O, ,OOO forins
as capital and 800 annual addition for
establishing a manufacturing school, and
$1,000 to pay for the tuition Of working
mems children for the next ten years. As
though this we're not enough To remember
the jubilee, he gave each operative twen-
ty-mark gold piece, and they went home
rejoicing.