Richland beacon., 1873-04-26
GENERAL ITEMS.


COTTAGES by the sea are going up in all
the New England towns that pretend to
be summer resorts.
THEY have a girl at SearspOrt. Maine,
thirteen Years old, who weighs 220 pounds.
and is growing nicely.
LITTLE ebony barrels, with gold hoops
and silver hunting horns. are the latest in
chatelaine vinaigrettes.
LIGHT brown is very fashionable color
just now among the Partisan ladies,
especially for outdoor costumes.
In Buffalo, New York, the newspaper
owners run to fast horses, and seeing
which office can do the best job work.
"OLD Probabilities" is descendant of
Connecticut family. Probably that's
what MAKES him so good on guess.
A BosTONIAN asked few friends around
to a strawberry supper the other night.
About twenty went, and there was one
strawberry.
A YOUNG woman was recently taken
from Burnham, Maine, to the asylum at
Augusta, who was rendered insane from
impure vaccine matter.
BosTON editors care very little for dress
and wear paper collars, but their ambition
is to own the finest library and have eggs
very morning for breakfast.
AN aged couple in Delaware celebrated
their diamond wedding, recently, receiv-
ing diamond TennysOAs, ,LOngfellOws, etc,
i'm token of their friends kinL remem-
brance.
A MAINE girl lost one of her earrings
on the road in recent snow storm, and a
day or two after neighbOr's horse picked
it up, and it was found in SNOWFALL
knocked from his hOof.
GOOD society seems to be waking up to
a sense of its luties. Two well-knOwn
bellies have. recently been sent to COvent-
ry for bad behavior in the way of flirting
with other girls intended.
The "Vanderbilt University" accord
ing to the Nashville Union, is to be the
name of the Methodist university soon to
be organized in Tennessee upon the fund
of $500, 900 donated by Commodore Van
derbilt.
The two Titusville, Pa, editors live in
hopes that lightning will strike the other
office, and thus give their own a lift.
Their chief employment consists in rela-
ting cOnfidentially how hard up the 9TH
er paper" is.
A REMARKABLE collection of china and
pottery, illustrating the history of the va
riOus kinds of work in ceramics carried on
in England with so much success more
than hundred years ago has just been
sold in London.
SINCE the breaking of Fosters neck the
opponents of capital punishment have
come ell masse 10 the front, showing up
dead C;esar's wounds to excite the pity
and disgust of the pOpulace for such bar
barous cruelty.
IT was Hartford swell who attempting
to cross the Connecticut river, recently.
broke through the ice, and when rope
was thrown to him, requested those who
were trying to save his life to be careful
not to tear his coat.
HATS of "cereal disposition" made of
coarse straw and bedecked with ears OF
wheat and OtlIer agricultural emblems,
are already displayed by the wholesale
dealers, fOreshadOwing that rural sim
plicity is going to be fashionable the COM
ing summer.
A YOUNG woman, while eating stew.
in MiddletOwn, COnn., the other evening,
complained that one of the oysters Was
full of bones, and careful, If not attractive,
examination showed that it contained for
ty-five pearls, varying in size from pea
to pins head.
AWEsTPIELD Mass whip makers wife
appeared in person at one of the shops, re-
Gently, to explain his absence, saying
"Jim is not well you must excuse him
he and | had little difficulty at the
breakfast-table this morning, and he won't
be able to work this week."
A NEW style of rouge has made its ap-
pearance. 1t consists of tablet of what
| looks like green tinsel, which, when rub
bed with damp cloth gives red pig
ment, which seems very natural when
transferred 10 the cheek of metropolitan
beauty. 1t is a Chinese invention.
The title of the new hair-dressing is
horrible in its associations. "A Ia gull
lotine," it is called, because the hair OF
the female victims of the French revOlu.
ton was arranged on the very top of the
head, as initiated in the present fashion
of the knife of the guillotine.
Mr.. WHIPPLE says women, to the enc
| of time, will never be tired of gazing or
those insipidly handsome faces, and those
perfectly but impOssibly fitting garments
which gladden. their eyes when they lool
at plates of the fashions. Mr.. Whipplt
| StauuS q kOOO euOW VI UClllk ou0tCnCS
bald-headed by uttering such sentiment
as these.
INSTEAD of regarding the letter of tn
law they are going to make the law re
gard o letter -or rather two letters-il
Baltimore. In that city there is q man b!
the name Of Green indicted for embezzling
but upon this little error he is likely I,
''get OF" The Indictment should charg
him with having fraudulently embez
zled," but because the two letters "ul
were omitted, and the word left to real
''fraudenly," the indictment has beel
quashed because there is no such word il
the English language, and Mr.. Greel
profits bv the mistake.
SOME time ago New Hampshire farm
er discovered large toad near his bee
hive, actively at work catching and de-
vouring bees. With that wonderful fol
bearance and kindness of heart character
} istic of New Hampshire farmers, h
tenderly picked up that frog and carrie
him half mile away from the hive. Th
next morning that identical frog wa
back again at the old stand, actively a
work as before. He again took him uI
carried him long mile away, and droppe
him. But in twenty-four hours he wa
back again, reducing the number OF bee