The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The dressing gown is the most lasting
of all garments; it is seldom worn out
A Kentucky man has named his six
teenth child, recently born to him,
Omega, hoping it will be the last.
China and Japan now use kerosene oil
to hurry up the fire, and the results are
about the same as in this country.
Both the San Francisco and Philadel-
phia minis are busy, the latter doing a
business Of three million trade dollars a
month.
A Wabash (Ind. editor returns thanks
for centipede sent him by mail, it being
the first cent he had seen for long time.
Michael Kane, lazy convict in the
New Jersey State prison, cut off his
thumbs last week to avoid working in the
shoe shop.
Two Pennsylvania clergymen have
risen from the position of printers devil,
though no one would think it to hear
them preach.
A Mount Pleasant boy was asked at
Sunday-school what Adam lost by his
fall, and he answered that he didn't
know unless he lost his balance
A bed of peculiar clay has been dis
covered in Jefferson county, Nebraska,
which makes brick of a beautiful blush
tinge, and almost as hard as stone.
Boston has been preserving General
Latayettes camp table" for these fifty
years, and has just found out that it be-
longed to a colonel unknown to fame.
A New Jersey woman has been weep
ing for the last ten days, and the doctors
can't find remedy. Exchange: Show
her a new bonnet or else remove the
onio1s.
An Iowa farmer sprinkled Paris green
on his potato tops to kill the bugs, and
three valuable horses died from nibblng
the tops, and then the bugs laughed at
him.
A horse-pistol, marked Julius" sup
posed to be a relic of Casarism has been
found in California. 1t was unearthed
by correspondent of the New York Her
aid.
In Macon, Georgia, the profit on every
500 worth of manufactured ice is SIS.
Ice making is the most profitable business,
for the amount of capital invested in Ma
con.
Scene in court: Judge "Have you
anything to offer to the court before SEN
tence is passed on your" Prisoner i" No,
Judge; had ten dollars, but my lawyers
took that"
Among the freshmen at Dartmouth
College is Henry Webb, a negro slave
boy who was brought from Richmond,
Ve., eight years ago, and who then bid
not know his letters.
A dry-goods clerk went to see his girl
the other night, and got fighting mad at
her because he found two warm places on
the sofa. The green-eyed monster has full
possession of that chap.
In recent article on a fair in his To-
cality, the editor of Western paper says
brother editor took valuable premium,
but an linking policeman made him put
it right back where he took it from.
A young man from the country slapped
big copper cent under the nose of the
stamp clerk at the Troy post office, the
other day, saying: "I guess I'll take
one of them ere pastoral cards, mister I"
When two young people are so far
gone that they have to talk love at church
and disturb sensible folks, We don't know
of anything that win help them unless it
would be twins, one cutting teeth and the
other with the whooping cough.
An Extinguisher. Forward and loqua-
cious youth. BY Jove, you know, upon
my word, now if were to see a ghost,
you know, should be chattering idiot
the rest of my life. Ingenious maiden,
(dreamily.) Have you seen ghost. !"