Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-01-31
ODDS AND Ends.

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The corn crop Of 1871 70 estimated
by tho agricultural bureau at I,0e3,.
1O0, 900 bushels.
The latest returns Of the cotton
crop received at Washington indi-
Gates yield OF S,40C, ,oc5 bales.
A Kentucky farmer rsfas@d to buy
sewing machine--''ho sowed his
seed out Of 4 bucket"
Tho Queen Of Madasascsr hss
become sufficiently civilissd to weaf
hoops. This being settled, the royal
intellect will probably turn nsxt 70
psnniers.
Cleveland haa twelve men whose
combined wealth is cstimsted st
thirty-two million dollars.
Boston buys carpet by the yard
10 make slippers. and retail; s, i b! the
ally.
A Kansas widowor triod to have
his wife's funeral aud his second We'd.
ding together.
Tho world uscs 25O, ,o00, 900 pounds
oftca each year, ,and' IS, ,ooo, 900 pounds
OF coffee. China furnishes nearly
all the tea, and Brazil over one-half
Of the coffee.
A soldier at Newport barracks,
Ky, has been drummed out Of tho
service, and sentenced to i've years
imprisonment, for stealing . twenty.
live cent pair of drawers.
A man who works for . living
should marry::a taller woman than
himself. "Thc laborer Is worthy OF
his higher"
A man in Cincinnati is organizing
u brass band of twenty women. lie
says if they learn half As many airs
as they put on, 1t will be success.
4 shawl manufacturer in Philadel.
phia has spun thread twenty.seven
miles long from one pound Of Amer
lean wool. 1t is ono Of tho greatest
yarns OH record.
Bates has got u conundrum. Why
is a new born babe like the relief Of
Ludlow? Because it's the long cx-
pcctcd sucker.
"IIavc you copy Of Pro,nethes
Bound?'" inquired a customer Of
clerk in n bookstore. NO." was the
reply. But we will order you copy
Of .Promctheus,' and have IL bound
as soon as possible"
, AT this seas OH, among things for
, real protection of women, and at tho
samctime something that would help
to elevate them are thick-soled shoes.
81 say, Sam, dey tell mo dare Ia .
man down East, dat Ia so industrious
dat he works twenty-five hours
r day!" ~
"IIow is dat, Cuffy? Oar are only
r twenty -four hours in a day."
p "why, he gets up an hour before
daylight, you stupid nigger"
a Dr. Greeley lately paid visit to
Il Danbury, Connecticut, aud hearing
that the villagers had just made 5000
0 pounds Of cheese from sixteen cows,
: started Immediately for the slaughter
: house to witness the operation.
Grants contemplate course TO-
l ward Hancock has reached its climax,
C The Military Division of the South,
) the command Of which was recently
: made vacant 6y the death of General
lInlleck, has been discontinued by
c official order.
: The wcll-knoWn Paris picture deal.
er, Pcre Michel, who has been for
forty hears in the trade, las lately
died ,lcavinghim some 1000 paintings.
: His stock filled thre" houses. Pere
Michel, is said to have commenced
5 business with o very email capital.
but to have accumulated by his atten-
tion and prudence million Of franco.
The colorcd gentlemen Of Hsnui-
bal recently had a little Ku-Klux
| celebration. A colorcd man whipped
/ and abused his wife. A number Of
his colorcd friends got up surprise
. party, went to his home, dragged
4 him ont farefootcd, and disrobed and
:. administered n severe fogging with
n a cowhide. Now he knows how it 10
. himself, and will quit.
A negro waiter, whs had twice
T. awakened traveller to inform him
= that break fast was ready, and third
!, time broke his siumbers by attempt
o ing to pull off the bedclothes, thus
y explained: "Massa, IL you isn't gwine
T. to git up, must hab de sheet anyhow
: case they're waiting for tho table,
clof"
Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis, mother Of
Mrs. Sidney Meals, Of Liberty, Nc,
died October 3rd. 1871 at the residence
of her son, Joseph d. Ellis, in Cow
II ington, KY, aged nearly s6 years.
e, She was born March SOth, 1884, in
u Pennsylvania, and 10 the last survivor
. of Kenton's Station, Mason county,
e Ky.
- - On a farm at Ogdcnsburg, new
r. York. owned by one Axtcll, = two
- ycar-old Ayrshire bull and a yesrling
ram recently fought desperate bat
= tie, which continued two days at
:. short intervals. In the last round the
. bull was kr. ocked completely out Of
: time, and fell dead; having succum-
:, bed to the fearful butting Of his
~ lighter but more active asssilant.
:. Among the recollections revived At
3. the recent Williams College reunion
:; at New York city was that Of the sus-
;, pension Of William Cullen Bryant for
q 9 fragrant violation of the rules Of the
,r college. His ofFense consisted In re-
r. citing a poem entitled "Thanatopsis"
before il had been corrected by tho
Il president? The result was that Bry.
~ ant graduated at Yale, and the poem
"a went forth to the world In the un-
0,;,haJ oovd;t;np Il, which th6 Dre0.