Richland beacon., 1873-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS,
SWEET HOME-A bee hive.


his is grave case.
iT is proposed to introduce civil service
reform among the uncivil strcet-car con-
ductOrs.
PARIS. in abolishng gloves, DEGREES
Them TO be the cramped inventions of :,
frivolous mind.
Mrs. JONES says her husband is three
handed man-right hand, left hand, and a
little behind hand.
DEAN RAMSAY estimated that four mil
lion sermons are delivered in England
every year. And still the people are not
happy.
QUEEx VICTORIA has just presented 10
the Historical Museum in Derby an or
iginal letter from Prince Charles Stuart,
dated in l745.
IsRAELITEs throughout the country
have in contemplation the establishment
of metropolitan synagogue in the city
of Washington.
The girl students at Buchtel College.
Ohio. have formed a base ball club. They
have more matches on hand than they
know what to do with.
The children of st. AIMS sabbath
School in Brooklyn, contributed 81 ,032
ltSl NNii toN ilus anu sNDl'pA u
ing a Chinese missionary in China.
The name of John +. Wilson. the pres
ent postmaster of Lynchburg, Va. is in
Scribed on monument erected at Peoria.
ILL.,. TO the memory of soldiers who were
killed during the war.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING has issued an
order to the clergy under his jurisdiction
not TO celebrate marriage when the same
parties have been, or intend to be, married
in Protestant church.
CAPTAIN WILLIAMS. of the Atlantic, is
TO be suspended for two years. Many
persons will think this too severe sen
Ience. They would be satisfied with sus-
pending him fifteen minutes.
IT is said that Disraeli proneunces his
naue in the Italian fashion, which the
common people of England sound so As
to make the last syllables rhyme with
Bailey. 1t was originally ISraels.
THERE are three American dentists in
Madrid. and they have made handsome
fortunes by the practice of their profes-
sion. They enjoy the exclusive patronage
of all the nobility. Yankee tooth carpen-
tiers stand land chargc) high in Europe.
Men think God is destroying them be-
cause He is tuning them. The violinist
screws up the key till the tense cord
sounds the concert pitch but he Is not to
break il. but use il tunetully, that 1t
stretches the string upon the musical
rack.
HERR ZUKERTORT lin English sugar
TART is the wonder of the chess world in
London at present, on account of his bril-
liant play, rs well as for his extraordinary
feats of what is called ''blindfOld" play
ing. in which Morphy was so great an
adept.
MARK TWAIN, a few months after hi;
first baby was born, was holding it on his
knee. His wife said, Now confess
Samuel. that you love the child.' 81
can't do that replied the humOrist. "but
am willing to admit | respect the little
thing for its fathers sake"
No doubt some women are immortal
There is Madame Anna Bishop, who sang
land not in her prime either) for our grea
grandmOthers, is to begin anOtheg, Ting
fessional tour .r r2Hpd PHI, dtas the China, ia.
pan. India, and Australia. She Is the
Methusaleh of lyric artists.
SOME prominent men of Washington
d. c., have conceived the design of organ
izino a Church without Christ and the
Bible. They recognize God and the I'M
mortality of the soul. and are willing tc
natroniZe the Sacred Word as long as they
shall Judge it conforms to the truth
| They Judge that at least one or two NIL
lions will unite in this movement.
ORANGE CULTIVATION IN LOUIsIANA.-
There is a steady increase in the Oe1pgt
district of Louisiana, of this specto4 o.
husbandry. In Plaquemine Parish some
1000 acres are occupied by Orange-grOves
| Usually, there are one hundred trees Il
the acre, and healthy tree will bear from
500 to 1000 oranges, 1000 being a fail
average field. They bring, on an average
SO per thousand.
| MrRAT HALsTED. editor and prOprietO
| of the Cincinnati Commercial, began hi
practical life as a school teacher in small
village near that city. He afterward
went. without a dollar, to the metrOpOli
of Ohio: wrote blOOd-and-thunder stOrie
for one of the Western weeklies, and loca
items for daily journal, and finally Oh
tanned position on the Commercial. wher
he stuck" and succeeded.
RECENT issue of French coin, mad
from Australian gold. has been found S
brittle as to break easily under Ordinar
| use III mas accordingly DtcIl ItCdIlcu. u
brittleness is supposed to be due to til
presence of small percentage Ofantimon
and arsenic, both extremely difficult
,, remove. These substances are said
,, produce a like effec. in all metals or alloy
which are subjected to the mOlecul'
changes induced by the pressure and he;
, developed under the action of the dies
the cOpying-press.
1 NJ. HOUzEAU maintains that not Oh
: does each group of animals possess la
D guage which is understood by other mel
n bers of the same group, but that they c;
learn to understand the language of 9th
e groups. His dogs, for instance, perfect
s understood his poultry. Cocks and he
s have one danger signal for the apprOa
r of bird of prey, another for that OF
# terrestrial animal or for man. VIII
5 the latter was sounded the dogs won
y rush out and bark, while to the form
s. they paid no attention whatever.
therefore concludes that fowls have {
power of expressing slightly different b
closely allied ideas, and dogs can learn