, 1873-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

A protty Chinese girl Ia now undergoing trial |
at Pekin, charged with hoing the Captain or d |
piraticsl craft recently blown up in one Of tho |
Chinese rivers.
"A Missouri woman turned her husband up
side down in tho milk churn the other day, bo-
causo ho swore at her mother. He respects bis
motlier-in-laW now.
-Martha jones' Of Edinburg, Scotland, SO
doarly loved q young man that she bit OIL tho
end Of Ills nose, and her father was Obliged to
pay 94.5D0 damages.
transfers Of real estate in Khnawha County dur
Ing tho month ending on the 10th inst, repre-
aentod value Of 81, ,212, ,900.84.
-Thore ia an Ancient Order of Hiborniana In
Springfield, Mass; mud 1t has just devotod tho
81, 900 heretofore t1aod for IN annual blowout to
the establishment of free reading-room.
--Several months ago young man IN Evans
villo went to sleop with gold dollar III his
mouth, and ho forgot oil about 1t until his bad
cold WIS cured lust week by his coughing the
Gun An 1o inoreaso m e ef Of debt in eight
months il what the City Of New York hnH to
ment. nuua u These los "Reformors are evon worse
-Jamos Callihau, tho perpotrator Of q shock
Ing outrage on Victoria Ehninger in Rochester,
n. T., hns boon raloaaod on S5,0oo 4hll; me
in Jail to protect her from tho machinations Of
Callhan's friends, who a1o determined to spirit
her away, or to forco hor to marry her rnvishor
in order to Have him from tho consequences OF
| his crime. ...
Tho Tichborne trial had MARROW escape
| from sudden and tragic termination, the other
| day. as two Of those long-s11fering jurymon
were returning, to tho courtroom, after lunch
! con, 4 large elm WAS blown over their path,
crashing to tho ground just as they had cleared
tho spot. It makoa one's blood run cold to think
| Of that case having to DO tried over again:
Knealy would speak for th1eo months instead Of
ITho Hohool Mt peuikogo Ia likoly 10 succeed
90 far as tho financial part OF its management is
concerned. At q recent dinnor-party, made on
tho birthday Of Prof. AgasBiz, BY his hon,in-law,
Quincy Shaw, the proiessor, wo arc told by
correspondent OF tho Euening Post, "was pre-
conted By his son and daughter with s100 900,
and by his own son with $4,000, This will DO
used exclusively in the cause Of acionce." Moth
lug rare, tho same writer tolls us, escapes tho
Professors notice. "He has jnHt purchased
small fossil a inchoH long) pteroddctyle, sending
to Germany for It, OF cost Of SGo0."
Tho gauge Of tho Grand Trunk Railroad be,
tweon Montreal and Strntford, it Is announced
from headquarters. will DO changed on the Sd
and 4th of October from Ave feet six inohos to
four feet eight and one-half inches. On tho 42u
inst. tho Company will commence changing the
rolling stock west OF ", 20 as to
line will bo run on the narrow gauge WeHt o1
; Montreal, and large numbers Of new cars will be
brought into uso. Steel rails will tako tho plac@
Be- BE- l .dded s to tho The road. nd Tho Company ssk tht
forboaranco Of shippers while tho above change!
ire being made to make tho inoonyenionces un
ayoidably arising as Light as possible.
"a genslomeat t o. thts M atty, tknowang % n tn'
; ingham County, Now Hampshire, or at loaat ro
ported to be tie richest, has received inyallt
psusion for tue past sixty years Of s2l0 year, b
+ having beon n.aoldior OF tho war Of lbla. Ho na
never spont dollar of tho ponson, and III
wealth Is result Of tho accumulation of it
principal and interest. He Ia o brother OF 3 dis
4 tinguishod politician whoHo death mhny year
' ago caused profound sensation throughout tn
= Union.-Ne,oburypo Herald
!. - Tho annual record OF mushroom poisoning
. . has begun to appear in the papers. Tho tIra
3 victima were family in Connecticut, who pm
took Of what was supposed to DO mushrooms
gathered in q tract Of woodB. Tho fungi Wer
excellent to tho taste, and it was not until twey
hours after their being oaton that ill-eifoctg wei
- e1perionced. Ono person diod In few hour
= and tho othors wore, at last accounts III crit
81 81 -Thoro is the authority Of Journals pnbIiahe
~ at Bridgeport, Connecticut, for stating that CO
tain officials in tho Jail OF that delectablo Gil
eayo to tho incarcorated and untried forg'
IS tho prisoner that 1t was nraonio, and adyisl
3a HIM to poison himself with tho loso. Tho forge
N not knowing the humorous tendenclos Of Il
e bridgeport prison officials. eagerly swallowed Il
enonios @ only to ind himself "sold.a Iia Bu
aequont language to that officer indicates
slght falling from grace. And Drldgopo
4 laughs ut this GhaBtlioBt Of jokes.
u M. D. Conway, in rocent letter from Lo
AZ don, Gays " Last year aud this, several fcma
n NJ artists, whoso works had been rojecte
" aoDt their contributions under feigned 1nAso
turos 80 sent wero received, applaildod, aud we
hung for tho admiration OF the public A Ia
mr. ut Nichu,onl borrowed tho na,no OF gontlom
70 70 OF hor acquaintance, and tho pictures Buppos
os to ho by Lin woro Holl at very largo price q
.. it was only bscaubo OF q largoly-lnoreaHod i
,. ar mand on tho said gonsloman for income tax til
As tho ruso had to DO confessed, and the fact mn
known that malo namo in Engliah art is oq.
to several hundrod poundu."
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