The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-06-11
NOTEe OF THE DAY.

NOIE5S VE u - q DA
South Carolina has lOl co,ored leglsla-
tors.
A new Jewish hospital has been opened
In Vienna.
The Bank of Epgand is now one hundred
and seventy years old.
A man in Pennsylvania cut his throat ber
cause be had S24 stolen from him.
Byron Scott, of St. Louis is not poet
but be is quite successful thief.
London proposes TO accommodate Itself to
late dinner hours by giving theatrical per-
iOrmauces in the afternoon.
A Texan benefactor OF bis kind who stole
three acordeous has been sent to Jail instead
of receiving t. vote of thanks.
A temperance organ declares that the de-
wills kingdom is rum. II is generally ad-
mitted to be the place of bad spirits.
Dry goods men paradoxically remark that
Manchester calicoes have decreased 10 value
because Of their increase in "size."
Notfirdng. Indiana parisbioncrs amsnable
to reason. a ergyman there has been try
ing the effect of sermon in rhyme.
A citizen of Lowell, Mass, and his wife
were both born on the same day, and have
just ceSbrated the fiaieth anniversary.
Que Of the Wheeling hotel-keepers refuses
to e1 tertain members Of the West Virgins
Legislature under any circumstances.
Two people 10 walking together will al
ways avoid the path. One will walk on
each side 1t shows how unselfsh we are %
a people.
A West Virginia pensioner received q
check duly signed but with the amount left
blank. The houest old soldier returned 1t
Tor correction.
A home for aged ani iudigent dogs
where the oyster-can shall cease from troub-
ling and the weary canine shall bs ut rest
-is Bergh's last.
OouklOsSmAu III StSut tVO
with saying that he will pay all his debts
with his back pay, thus placing it where II
will do the most good.
Considering how particular France Is
about the etiquette OF the table, 1t seems
curious that SD should lay her Grevy on the
shelf and put her Beffet in the chair.
A burgurlar who was sentenced the other
day at the Maidstone England Assizes to
seven years eervitude, offered TO toss the
Bench whether it should be fourteen years
or nothing
A pet parrot was so disgusted with the
tnmuIt of moving day in Harrisburg, tha
he sgnalzed his passage through the streets
on the top of the furuitars-w agon by the
most shocking profanity.
An editor who is somewhat of an empi.
rical philosopher, says that one Of the most
unsatisfactory Efforts he ever made in BIZ
life was to perch upon thres'legged stool
and try to imagine himself Horace Gree
ley.
Nasbville's oldest inhabitant Is much 10.
terestsd 10 Bryant's "Homer," because Is h'
says, although be didn't know Ajax persos
nally, he was very we'll acquainted with A
Jackson, and voted for i'm for President.
Tue Derby, Conn, Transcript says Mrs
Sherman, the poisoner, tells the Matron o
he State Prison every night before going to
her cell: "Good night, madam; 1 trust iu
God shall not see you In the morning.
The Toronto Leader. in sarcastic edito
ial on she Canadian railways, says that "tb
Great Western Railway is steadily sud sure
" maintaining its reputation as one OF tth
most dangerous roads upon which 10 trave
On this continent.
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