The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-04-04
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A BLIND preacher is lecturing on what
he saw in Paris, out in Illinois.
"A BuMPkR at parting" as the drunken
man sad when he ran up against post.
CncAao is still deliberating whether less
beer would improvets more-alo on Sundays.
TuE wine product Of Los Angeles county,
Cal, this season, is estimated at 100000
gallons.
GRANT county, Wis, has four hundred
postoffices. There issomething in name
after all.
The bounty Of Is cents on gopher scalps
is said 70 have cost Nebraska $25,0OO in
two years.
MARK TWAIN assails the character Of ).
lscarot by calling him premature Con.
gresham.
lr is one Of the curiosities Of natural his.
tory that horse eats best when he las not
q Bit IN his mouth
l'nE Atlantic ia the only power on the
earth that make woman Indifferent to her
personal appearance
The very much turn over collar Of tho
British sailor is to DO abolished, and tho
navy ia to have neither grog nor bare neck
tars.
A Mississippi corouel's jury returned
verdict that both man and his horse but
ted their brains out against tree when in
toxicated.
A MIcmdAS girl drew $1,000 farm at a
gift concert recently. A number Of Mch-
"gauders' have applied for the position Of
chief manager already.
A country paper in Minnesota wants to
know who swndled the Indians out of such
an Internal country as Minnesota is, and
who deluded the white people into it.
An applicant for q pair Of boots was
asked what number he wore, and replied
as soon as he could recover from his sur
prise "Why two, Of course"
STATE Superintendent Fallows, of Wis.
consin, reports that one.third of the chill
dren Of school age (between aud 2l) did
not attend school during the year 1872.
IT is a strange question, but rather per
tinent one to ask, whether or not some,of
the homicides now so frequent are not gotten
up in order to advertise the patent revolvers
they are committed with.
The French census enumerates 81 ,5e6
more married men than married women.
How is this? Do that number Of French
wives keep duplicate husbands or are the
men widowers2
The canon Of Toulumne river where it
finds it finds its way through the Sierra
Nevada Mountains, in California, is said to
rival the far famed Yosimite in grandeur of
scenery.
BoARDISG-HousE chicken soup can be
! made it is said by some one, by hanging q
r hen in the sun 30 that her shadow falls
d into pot Of salt water. The only trouble
e is that on cloudy day tie soup is liable to
be weak.
\ Two sporting men, Mortimore and Ham.
! mon, have been put under $500 bond each,
. to appear at the next term of the circuit
court of Lauderdale county, for passing
9 counterfeit money. They didu't get saw
= dust in thern
= Miss VIRGTEIE CHEsouIEEEs, who Of
tanned the rank Of sergeant in the fret
= Napoleon's army, where she served for six
I teen years in male attire, recently died il
France at the age Of ninety.
le HERE is toilet that wasn't described A
K colored maid Of all work from Washing
Or ton boarding house attended the Inaugura
y ball in much trimmed white tarlantan, will
le low corsage and wore powdered hair.
~ The contributions to the printers type
IL metal statue to be erected in Greenwood Il
% the memory of Mr. Greeley, have been 81
~ numerous that the movement IS an entir
ye y. success. 1t will be made as speedily a
' possible.
u u A WESTERN paper acknowledges the rt
- ~ cept Of chicago sheet called "Heayenl
" " 'Tidings," asking an exchange. 1t denie
y. ~. tho request, for the reason that'"is not
s lls the habit Of booking to Chicago as th
~ ~ source for tidiugs Of that nature"
,ad A New Jersey paper says "BuiId yo'
"a houses as quick as possible. Let the har
n mer ring 10 the air. and the buzz Of the sa
ed be the music Of the day" To which co
eet temporary auus e. rusn Up 'ue pAl
Tho tial residences, barn, pig-pens, hen house