Richland beacon., 1873-08-02
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

p1dkeSpeare, SpenSer, MlltOn, COWIey,
Butler, Dryden. Pope, Cowper, Gold.
smith, Scott, Byron, Moore, Sir Philip
Sidney, or Sir Walter Raleigh not one
of Drake, Cromwell, Hampden. Monk,
Marlborough, Peterborough or Nelson ;
not one of Strafford, Ormond, or Claren-
don not one of Addison, Swift, or john
son not one of Walpole, Bolingbroke,
Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grattan, or
Canning; not one OF Bacon, Locke,
Newton, or Davy; not one of Hume,
GibbOn, or Macaulay not one of Ho.
garth, or Sir Joshua Reynolds not one
of David Garrick, John Kemble, or Ed
mund Kean.
A Nashville man was awakened the
other other nioht by pain in his stom-
ach and thinking that the cholera was
ut hand he clutched for a bottle of
camphor which he kept on the table,
ready for instant use, and commenced
to apply 1T with vigorous rubbing to his
abdomen. He experienced immediate
relief but was considerably surprised at
not perceiving the strong scent of cam
phor. Suspecting that he might have
made mistake he lighted the gas and
made an inspection which resulted in
the highly satisfactory discovery that
instead of camphOr he had used a bot
tie of ink.
For the annihilation of gophers and
wood-chucks, we have dogs, and feline
vigilance is healthy restraint upon in
ordinate muscipular multiplication, but
the fecund cockroach has no natural
enemy among domestic animals. How
more than priceless would be a micro
scopic terrier, with the ability and the
disposition to invade the strongholds of
these detested insects, and visit upon
them condign mastication their crimes
deserve.
They say that when the news of his
mothers death reached the shah at Ber.
lin, he sent home the three shahesses
and declared that the royal grief should
be postponed until his return to Persia.
which reminds Kate Field of the Yankee
woman who, upon being told at dinner
OF her husband death, exclaimed, "Just
wait until I've done eating, and I'll
show you some tall crying.
The will of Kentuckian. which
was made before his marriage, and gave
all his property to the lady who after
ward became his wife, has been success
fully contested by his legal heirs, it be-
ing held that the marriage acted as a re-
vocation. and that the widow is entitled
to only one third.
A man who was arrested at San
Francisco in January, for the dreadful
crime OF having witnessed a murder. has |
been shut up in Jail ever since. while |
hls wife and children in Europe are in |
destitute circumstances, and in daily |
dread OF being sent to the poor-house.
"A Virginia railroad runs what is
called grasswidowers' train out of
kichmond every Saturday evening,
stopping at all the summer resorts on
the line and returning, Monday morn.
ing, in good time for the gentlemen to
begin the business of the week.
Several passengers, on the lower
Mississippi, were attracted by the ALI.
gators basking in the sunshine. care
they amphibiOus, captain ?" asked a
looker-On. "Amphibious, ,h-lr" an
swered the enthusiastic officer "theyII
eat hog in minute"
The freeman do sn't gravitate very
toward labor. Some colered
Vagrants, recently arrested in Georgia
were offered their Choice of IL months
IN jail or IL months indenture to work.
and they unhesitatingly chose the for.
mer. {
-COnundrum from the Chicago Trib-
me: "Why is it that lightning never I.
strikes an Organ-grinder, that thev :
lever fall into the river and get drowned, :
hat they never starve to death, and are }
lever bitten by mad dogs ?" :
And now some scientists are claim 4
ng that. instead of being cold, the t
noon is in reality redhot, so much i
o that no living thing known to our Z
world could exist there. This also i,
nocks the green cheese theory. K
j. f. James, a San Francisco sur- f
eyor. backed by heavy capitalists, is t
making thorough survey of the Colo. 7
ado deserts, east of San Diego, with a {.
lew of ascertaining the practicability d
reclaiming vast tracts of land. s.
Joaquin Miller has accepted the n
hallenge to ride to the hounds against IL
noted English sportsman. He saws he q
Iil break the Englishman's neck If he a
an find country rough enough.
,-Figueras is at Faux -Bonnes. a a.
rance. being treated for an affection of 81 N
ne larnyx, produced by straining his al u
oice while he was president Of the q y
panish assembly. *
"A San Francisco paper calls for a r
ar of determination against sea lions.
lleging that these unsightly, predace- q,
MS and voracious beasts destroy vast n
umbers of fish. h
The shah didn't fancy the empress W
Germany at all, and his last words =
William on leaving Berlin were, 81
ivise You to get rid of that old Au-
lsta.
"A Kentucky paper, in announcing
Sunday-school picnic, "truly hopes R
rat our citizens will, for once, leave "
leir bowie-knives and revolvers at i
Dme."
"A Florida paper has ascertained
at healthy alligator can eat seven I.
gro children in one forenoon, and not IS
splay any symptoms of disquiet. IIs Is
Cincinnati wants to swap off her big r'
'licemen for men who can chase A
elf three blocks without having to sit -
'wn to rest. IN IN
The wallsof Constantinople. though In
ut 1880 years ago, are still perfect. ~
riginally there were 43 gates; now
ly seven exist.
"A l9-year old chambermaid in a
licago hotel has gone TO prison for
'allng articles to the value of H15OO