The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-04-19
MISCELLANY.

Al HiouJ FiudReS the mum Ole homes o.
the inhabitants are completely inunda.
ted. Many tenements have been aban.
doned, while in others a miserable at.
tempt is made to live surrounded by
water. No fires blaze on the hearth
but the little cooking is done in large
kettle on the table, where they manage
tokeep small-fre. Beds are suspended
from rafters, boats are used for locomo-
ton, and the poor people have been
reduced to truly pitiable condition
Some practical efforts have been made
for their relief by the nobility and
Others whose sympathies have been
awakened.
A Berlin photographer is reported tc
have made use of an ingenius trick to
attract customers. The artist pretend
ed he could make photographs of gen.
tleman SO life-like that their dogs would
be liable to recognize them. When
these photographs were held up before
the dogs of the owners, the dogs Mould
wag their tails and lick the pictures.
The other photographers of Berlin, who
were unable to perform anything SINH
lar, watched their colleague and finally
discovered his secret. 1t was a very
simple proceeding. All he did was to
cover the photographs with a thin layer
of lard. which the dogs, of course,
smelled, and licked off.
A young couple were sitting together
in romantic spot, with birds and flow
ers about them, when the following dia.
logue ensued.
"My dear, if the sacrifice of my life
would please thee, most gladly would
lay it at thy feet"
"Oh, sir, you are too kind! But it
just reminds me that l wish you'd leave
off using tobacco"
"Can't think of it. It's habit tc
which 1 am welded"
Every we'll, sir; since this is the
way you lay down your life for me, and
as you are already welded to tobacco,
I'll take good care you are never wed.
ded to me, as it would bigamy"
"WANTED-A young man to take
charge of a pair of horses of religious
turn of mind" A school committee
man writes: "We have school house
large enough to accommodate four hun
dred pupils four stories high" A
newspaper says: "a child was run
over by a wagon three years old and
crossed-eyed with pantalets which new
er spoke afterwards. Another paper
describing celebration, says: 1.-The
procession was very fine and nearly two
miles in length. as was also the prayer
of DIR. Perry, the chaplain"
The Turks, with all their Incidence,
are up to great many tricks in trade
that equal those of the Heather Chinee.
A prominent drug house in Detroit re-
Gently received consignment of opium
from New York, in the original package
as shipped from Smyrna. They opened
one small box, supposed to contain six
teen ounces of the expensive gum, and
found that three ounces of the weight
were represented by three leaden bull
lets. They are apprensive that the
other boxes may pan out" equally
well in similar way.
A fellow of eighteen summers invest.
ed in a banana on the cars recently
He carefully removed the peel, and put
it on the seat by his side; then he
broke the fruit up in small bits. cycling
it anxiously as he did so. When this
was done he picked up the peel, shook
it in his lap, and finally threw the pie
ces out of the window, remarking as he
did so: That's the fust of them prize
packages ever bought, and it's the las,
one, you bet
Woman is compounded of three arti-
cles, sugar, tincture of arnica, and sof,
soap. Sugar, because of the sweetness
which is apparent in most women
alas, that in some it should have acidu-
lated into strong domestic vinegar! ar.
MICA, because in woman is to be found
any quantity of healing and soothing
after the bruises and wounds which af.
fict US men in the battle of life; and
for soft soap for reasons too obvious to
need specification
A parent writes to us that he is an.
noyed and panied by his son staying
out nights, and asks us if we can pre-.
sent a remedy for this rapidly growing
evil. There are several remedies. The
boys spine can be broken with an axe
or he can be nailed to the floor with 8
red hot railroad spike, driven through
his abdomen, but the most efectua
way is to compel him to wear patched
clothing.-Danbury Ne,rs.
A Viennese newspaper contains a
letter making inquiries about the Credit
Mobilier, and expresses the hope that q
specimen of it may be sent over to the
grand International Exhibition at Wen.
ma. This certainly indicates an enter
prising and progressive spirit on the
part of Austria, but it might be diff
cult to select single specimen fitted tc
illustrate the matter, even if expenses
of transportation were all paid.
A Danbury boy of ten winters (not
like this one, however), stole harmo.
MICA Friday evening to serenade his CIR
with. and was sending thunder and
lightning through it when overhauleo
by his father and the owner. He saws
there are places where poultice won,
take hold worth a cent. Danbur,
N.>,re 81