Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-06-19
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CLIPPINGS.

Howmeward Fly" thirty years ago.
Charles Mathews son, Charlie Jr-
has been admitted to the bar In Lon.
don.
Ohio has enacted by law that eigh-
ty-eight cubic inches of bituminous
coal shall weigh just sixty pounds
avoirdupois.
The Italian coral fishery has boon
very successful the past season, tho
total value Of the yield being about
s,Ooc, 100 fran:s.
The British Gen. Greaves, who
fought against Jackson at New Or
leans in 1915, Is dead.
"Deliver me, 0 Lord, from the er:
rors of wise mcn-yea, and OF gooa
men.-Archbishop Leighton.
Hon cultivation is falling of sori-
ously in England. Last year but co.
O29 acres were cultivated, as against
65, ,e7s in 1867.
The Pope rode out in his carriage
May 26, his first public appearance
since September 20, 1870.
At Il Catholic fair Newton Corner
Mass, they are balloting for acane to
be given to the popular trotestant
clergyman in the town.
The "Inter- Ocean" has u long arti-
Gle on "The Cant of Reform" II
means reforms which the Radical
party is always promising but can't
bring abOut.--Sf. louis Times.
Although Seyd Ben Maid has been
invited to the Jubilee, tho Scyd Ben
has not yet Maid up his mind wheth-
CT to come or not.-Boston Post.
| a San Francisco butcher who un-
dortook to kill himself with a sickle,
made sickly failure oft. He wasn't
able to come up to time In the use OF
the implement.
Lord Northbrook, the new Viceroy
of India, has relcgatcd to tho obscu-
rity of private life Mr.. Cowap, tho
energetic deputy who ordered the
blowing from cannon Of the mutinous
Kookas.
An Indiana gentleman, who has lost
two wives within eighteen months,
made the last funeral the occasion OF
= having a sermon preached FOR both Of
thcm-half sermon apiece.
: Two more officers have been tried
. by courtnlartial. in connection with
: grounding of the British iron-clad
, Lord Clvdc. Both were found guilty
= Of negligence and dismissed the ship.
There isa minister in Minnesota
who is strong in the belief and loud
in the announcement that the world
will not outlast the present summer.
And, yet he has planted 100 acres OF
wheat.
DR.. Nclaton, the eminent French
surgeon, is reported 10 be in falling
health, caused by an internal tunor
which cannot be reached or cured. In
=. the patient expectation of death, tho
bSrs Viz
. by translating "Thc Odyssey"
n Dunlop says that in all European
=, literature there arc not more than
q 800 distinct plots, and $50 Of these
= afc earlier than Christianity. AL
I most all the newspaper jokes have
i reached venerable old age, and al,
@ the Irish bulls are Greek.
/. A young lady seeking asituation
i was interested in an advertisement
d for some one to do light house-kccp-
Z ing. So she wrote to the advertiser,
), asking where the lighthouse was, aud
t if there was any way of getting to
0 shore OH Sunday.
Such is fame: When Bryant, the
D poet, was in Mexico recently; he met
l an American lady, aud after tho in
G PRODUCTION she said to friend: eve
r body in New York knows Mr..
Bryant, and they all 90 to hear his
minstrels sing"
Connecticut fishermen spin strong
yarns. we should judge from the
Norwich "Bullctin, (which says 1t has
always observed that trout fishing
bears about the same ratio to men
dacity that tight boots do to profani-
/ ty."
Miss Lizzie Barrigan is the cham.
pion swimmer of Charleston, Mass.
She can swim faster and further, dive
, deeper aud come out dryer, than any
one else in the place, and altogether
she is u "duck Of o woman"
a man known as "Silly Kelley"
died the other day, in Edinburgh, At
the age of 81. lie had been convicted
in the police court $50 times, and had
spent upward Of forty years in pris-
on.
The British Home Office has sent
, for correspondence between Earl
; Granville and the British Consul
5 at Philadelphia, with aview of warn
a ing persons from purchasing spuri.
= Gus degree alleged to be granted by .
n university of Philadelphia.
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