The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-01-25

DaDABlea.
-Thirteen women ak to enter tae Yale
school Of journalism.
California is the only American State
which taxes purely benevolent institutions.
The Nebraska Legislature has passed
the bill recalling the constitutional conven-
ton.
There are ten million COWS tn the Uni
ted States.
In the town Of Vallejo, CAL, there is
only one bible.
Are the "Club skates advertised, de-
signed for club feet?
"A Des Moines female composi.or earns
an average Of s24, week.
A private letter, dated Messina, Italy,
Decsmber 9, says almost every city, in Italy
is infested with smallpox.
The remainder of the Erie shares be-
longing to the English stockholders, II, 7S5
| in number, were transferred few days |
stree.
The Papal Legation will soon be re- |
established at Madrid The name of the |
future Nuncio has not been announced,
All the western trains, except George
Francis" are stopped BY the weather.
The Medical Society of New York City
is framinga law for the suppression of ille-
gal practitioners.
A western reporter has found out that
Alexis gets only 5000 year for being
| Grand Duke.
The Nerh American RericW is becoming
| great favorite in England, where, until
quite recently, it has been known chiefly by
reputation.
| -Forty-five deaths, twenty-five resigna-
tons and eighteen retirements make tho
records Of 1878 Losses among the officers Of
the United States army.
London, with population Of 8, 0OO, 900,
has only nine daily nevsPapers-hve morn
| ing ard four evening-while Paris has
twenty, and New York twenty.four.
Colonel Fisk's worst enemies ought to
be satisfied with the wovd-cut portraits that
follow him with libel beyond the grave.
The Arkansas State Board Of Education
has passed resolution memoralizing Con-
gress to endow the free schools ofthe State.
-Proceedings have been inaugurated by
the United States District Attorney ii Chi
cago to condemn the land known ~ "post
Office block"
The Indianapolis Journal gives a hor-
rible account, for the truthfulness of which it
vouches, of the death in that city of worms
bred from wearing suite" switches.
A Boston paper alludes to the members
of the Massachusetts, General Assembly as
Every grave looking men, with awf'l dignity
stamped on their face, and fearfully large
| rubbers on their feet"
| DIR. Schweinfurth describes q people in
| the interior of Africa whose average height
il but little, If any, greater than that of the
l.aplander. He supposes that they may be-
long to the race described As pigmies by
Herodotus.
"A Pittstield Nasal. woman makes her
living by assessing regularly on the liquor
dealers Of the town SIG apiece. They pay
it readily rather than stani a prosecution
under the Maine law.
Beef tea was the favOrite beverage Of
| fcred to visiting guests on New Years Day
in Atlanta. The old men smacke their
lips over the novelty, but the young men
couldn't see it,"
The Hamilton (O.) Telegraph has a
column article describing how Fisk shot him
self while attempting TO draw pistol from
| his pocket. 1t thinks this line Of defense
viii: acquit Stokes.
Ahhe No;ono renor,s some re.,;rs IN
| stone steps, in which the mason mixed Port
land cement with finely divided cast and
wrought iron iilings and broken up borings
instead OF sand. The mass became so hard
| as 10 resis, breaking with a hammer or pick
AK.
Captain Barton, the African traveller, is
bringing home from Palmyrsa most interest.
inc Collection of skulls. and. more interest.
inc still. the skeleton OF a man eleven feet
high. which is supposed to be one of the
giants of Basbap.
A little Girl having noticed that after
her mothers toilet there was invariably a
spinkiing OF powder on the carpet, observed
on seeing the snow the other morning, "see,
mamma, the angels have been using the
poud'e dc r=.,
AT wedding at Rochester, recently,
NICE no"ered CAKE was mos; horribly mu'i1a-
.ea ~ an om gen,'eu a.a. VINO nit!o. 1t, IL ,or
u,sn =, !; . .,i' u, a anu nI IN. ;nio s
csrvs The no,s,oes - WIZ '
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.our; aa;.is,nu. h.v. ,o"oir"d 10, IN M -;m
srnn-.:fs :"In ", "SN zig.
Dcmocr.cv ef The conntrv the .dont;on n
the so.ca,jed Passive or N;ssonr; nnIicv sor |
ths n.,;onsi c,u,~.;sn ~ 1927
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xoun, d,m..I .bedd;., i.,,. o~.r :om.,h;,.
IN her Law ,ool IN. S,st onn.r,rn;,v 60 he
;n,rodncs3 % h.r and I'D No da,;h, a..
.ba 90 conr.,;,i .n;r;, LIVE. -
was II that affected Won 40 much the other
morning? Isaw YOU shed a great many tears.
Was h Bulwer's last?n 81 don't know What
Bulwer's last is" returned she, ''but l az.
sure you was doing job which almost
kills me. was peeling onions"
Whenever people want to see if the
great and good H. G. is at hotel, they look
down the register till they come to two blots
and splash.
1t is asserted that Livingstone is all right
at UjUi, but has been compelled TO marry
negro woman, and is no, allowed to leave the
country.
Said Blosgs the other day when applied
to for loan of ten dollars, 81 have only Eve
lending tens, and they're all out"
A person looking at some skeletons the
other day. asked a Young doctor prescn,
where he cot them he rsni;ed .sNc r,;seJ
them"
-"Tbos. VIM buv tonl,stoncs IF us look
with pride and satisfaction on the graves q; i
their friends" is the advertisement of 4,
western s.one-eutter. IL
TT. hill 80 a.. E,;so., Cr,,,.h ., la
Little Falls n " o,;e;naIiv helonnsd 70 . :
Spanish convent, and il 300 wears old. being l