, 1873-01-29

on the Macon l. Western Railroad, Jan. 2, SAYS !:
I" 4 sad incident was tho father and husband
with his dead wife aud children, unable to moyo
any part OF himself (being SO completely fenced
in) except one land: AID with this he could
reac!, over and touch her, knowing she was
dead"
Miss Minnie Christy, asea e. hes been
ate, bur Miss Belle Einlayson, aged 49, . candi-
date for the same position in the House, was
defeated By ". T. Moore, an e1-rebel soldier.
So much for difference Of ten years in the age
Of the two aspirants.
The Illinois sociable is to be held at Wizards
new hall, Warrington, on the 28th Of tho present
month. It ia designed to make it q full-dress
affair, and to limit the number OF tickets, which
are to DO placed in the hands Of as select class
Of people Us possible. The coay hall attached to
Willatd's is certainly one Of the most desirable
for dancing companies III the city.
Elder Hook tells story which requires moro
faith to believe than to swallow the yarns OF
Sinbad the Sailor. he says that Mrs Barnard
Colby, Of Warner, n H., whom ho visited last
in curing the henrt-disease and consumption,
with which she was lying dangerously Pick, arose
from her bed Immediately after the ceremony,
and the next day was about the house doing hor
accustomed work.
a suit is still pending between the State Of
Mississippi, as plaintiff, and tho Mobile l. Ohio
Railroad Company, IS defendants, for some
94o0, 200, alleged to DO the amount, with since
aecrulng interest, OF loan made By the State to
the road aome years ago, from the Chickasaw
School Fund, and which the Company claims to
have paid during tue existence OF tho Southern
Confederacy.
"A Census Of Cuba has recently been taken,
and General Sckles, Receiving the result from
tho Spanish Government, has transmitted it to
Washington. The total population Of the lslaId
is placed at ,399 811 there being 76a, LIS whites
o43 917 FRA EG9 C93 n1rra1 and ~ 4o1
Asiatic. In 1867 tho population Of Cubs was re-
ported to be H., ,533, that in five years that
have elapsed there is apparently decrease OF
/, 706. The insu.Tection of Cubs probably IN
terfered with getting an accurate census Of the
insurgent districts last year.
Another illustration OF Darwinism Was ro-
Gently furnished in the case OF two w1y-arrived
monkeys from China. which were lodged in 3
San Francisco bar-roona, one Of them being kept
in cage and the other left at liberty. During
the night the latter homunculus first consider
ate1y handed bottle OF rum to his Imprisoned
brother. who thareupon became comatoscly in
to1icated. and then proceeded to get frightfully
drunk and diso1derly himself, breaking decant-
hend of the barkeeper on that officials en-
trance, and otherwise comporting himself, as
his master remarked, g for all tho world just
like Christian"
A scientific writer in tho Atlantic says: Tho
1nger-nails end toe-nails upon the human body
grow at the rate Of one-b>*1dredth OF an inch in
ten days. This information induces reflection.
Methuselah lived for 969 years. Now, sup
pose ho had never cut his nails, he would
have gone down to the grave with sixty feet Of
finger and toe mills curling about his venerable
person. If Adam had lived until the present
time he would have had about 1000 yards OF
nails about his person. When We think Of these
things, how deeply ought We to be impressed
with tho wonders Of nature, with the strange and
awful mystery Of the human body, and With the
fact that il Adam sold out to glue msnufac~
turer, he could have realized enough to have
bought that oil stock OF ours, which is still for
sale for caah.