The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

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A New Hampshire baby, one year
old, Weighs 100 pounds. ,.-.. !
-Beeoher's pews rented for more
than sixty thousand dollars last year.
Less than two.thirds of = mile
remain. TO Be sqs ef the Asp.,es.rtnI'
Two thousand i've hundred people
died of sms|kpox il, , Phil.dslphi. in
1872.
CHARLES Reade makes war on tight
laeing and pearl powasrs, in his new
novel.
Tho New York Board Of Public
| Instruction has made DR.. J. G. Holland
President.
-Somers, little Connecticut town,
has eleven couples ready forsthsir gol,
den weddings.
-Napoleon's mustache was removed
in order to facilitate the taking of .
plaster cast. !
-Froude announces to tho appre-
hensive public that he will not write .
book upon America.
st. Louis figures chow . lsrgs r.
ductioo in the receipts Of grain At that
city for the past year.
An attempt to secure an extension
of the patent on the Babeoek Fire Ex.
tinguisher has failed.
"A strong effort is beng made .ts
save Stokes from the :gallows.
Lake George was frozen over
Christmas day, the third time in thirty
years so early in the winter.
"A Philadelphia Grand Jury has
declared tho blowing Of stem whistles,
within the city limits, a nuisance.
-Kaosas City has expended $780,
600 on single street, and yet it is not
remarkable for beauty or usefulness.
Brigham Young is under tho in.
preston that poly gamy is good for l.
900 years yet in the United States.
-Eighty.eight pieces Of discarded
bronze cannon will ba used in the
statue to the memory Of General Thorn.
as. l.
AT Hamilton, Iad., = Miss Hax-
card has opened wholesale -four and
feed business, and she does q large
trade,
The Alvarado, CAL, beet sugar
factory, daily uses sixty tons of beets.
Six thousand tons will be used this
season.
-Pinchback has been elected UNI.
ted States Senator from Louisiana for
the regular term BY the Kellogg Leg
islature.
English pipers predict that Amer.
leans won't use the postal cards more
than month before they will become
disguised. I
Napoleon Eugone-Louis. Js.n:Jo
seph Bonaparte, nearly seventeen years
Of age, is now heir to tho phantom
Bonaparte throne.
Senator Wilson is working on the
second volume of his "H,story Of the
Slage Power in America" which will
be issued next fall.
Rail phi Waldo Emerson was the
guest Of Baron Won Hoffman while 10
Rome. The Baroness was formerly
Miss Ward, of Boston.
"A Chlnaman who had become
suow-blind while working on the rail-
road recently applied to San Fr,ncis-
co policeman to shoot him.
Five able.bodled men applied to .
Buffalo police Justice for commitment
to the penitentiary for the winter, On
account Of the scarcity of work.
Simmons, the murderer, wants 4
piano ID his cell, on which to while
away the dreary hours uotil he is set
at liberty by an intelligent jury.
There was good skating on tho
Arkansas river, at Pine Bluff, tho day
after Christmas, aud tho oldest inhabi.
tant never saw the like before.
"A liquor dealer at Nisg.r. Falls,
last week, though, to make hit in the
advertising line by hiring = peripatetic
Hibernian to carry about tho street Z
transparency, setting forth the good
uess and abundance of bis liquors.
A temperance club, however, chartered
boy to follow with a transparency,
reading: "Cursed is DO that putteth
the cup to his brothers lips" It waa
tho general conclusion that tho bow be.
hind, was ahead of the boy in front.
-Bierstadt's new painting is 4 pic
ture of "Donner Lake from the Sum.
nit" The artist has been engaged on
this work for more than a year, and
has made great many elaborate stud
les for it, during numerous excursions
to the summit, and aimed to make q
careful transcript of an actual scene,
The point of view is near the line of
the Central Pacific railroad, Bonner
Lake lying some 1900 feet below, er-
bedded in basin Of gray granite and
shaggy coniferous woods. ....
"A strange story comes from China.
A native schoolboy at Shanghai told
biz schoolmaster that be had dreamed
bis stepmothor murdered him, and