Richland beacon., 1873-02-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

IHE DpSI lI1IIlg Out-d |.
AND now the washwomen of Cincinnati
are getting us wiring.
"PUB. Docs" are getting out OF laVor
in Washington. so are the Mo-i'ecs'
CHAIRS should never be covered with
silk, but satin.
An article you can always borrow
Trouble.
No CHAIN is stronger than its weakest
link.
WOMAN was made from rib-bOne-she
loves rib-bon(e)s to this day.
INCREDIBLE as it may seem. many OF
the richest planters in Jamaica i've Oh
coffee grounds.
Ir seems as if them as aren't wanted
here are the only folks as arn't wanted 1
til other world.
A HUMANE mother in Danbury pads her
Young 'hOpeful's pants and gives INN
chloroform before whipping him.
YOuNG ladies who lace themselves too
tightly when dressing for dinner evident
" prefer grace before meat.
Two hundred boys under ten years q
age have been discovered at work in coal
mines near Bath, England, contrary 10
law.
THE difference between true and false
doctrine is often only the width of a halr,
| see. And yet, the false doctrine Is the
heresy.
THE marrying season has set IN win
even more that its accustomed violence.
1t is not so violent, though, as the season
after marriage.
MAIL trains consisting of three ears and
n locomotive will soon run between New
York and Chicago at the rate of 40 miles
an hour, making the trip in "a hours.
The newspaper reports of Captain
Jacks fight with the regular troops con-
firm the statement that the Modocs fought
naked. The regulars were hot 10 that
manner of fighting born.
Mrs. SwIssHELM, having finished her
work on ''wOmen who have been hanged,
can now supplement it by a voluminous
treatise on ''wOmen who ought to be, but
arnf."-Boston PcSt.
MINNESOTA is celebrating whether wire
fences or picket guides would be the
cheapest means of keeping wayfarer:
from strayng of the prairie roads and
freezing to death in snow-drifts.
WHEN N. p. Willis was asked to make
speech, he replied, 81 am by profession
writer. and you cannot expect a. pump
to give water from the handle as well a
from the mouth.
SWIFT said the reason certain universe
ty was learned place was, that mos
persons took some learning there. ant
few brought away any with them; so il
accumulated.
An unfeeling Maine manufacturer o
melOdeOHs has procured the arrest OF
pious youth who sold parlOr-Organ be
fore he bought it i'm order to place head
stone above his mothers grave.
SEvENTY-sIx per cent. Of the weather
predictions from Washington, for lsli
prove correct, and fully One-half of tn
rest only anticipated slightly the cOnditio
of weather announced AS probable"
THERE are one hundred and fOrty-nin
savings banks in New York State. wit
assets amounting to about three hundre
million dollars. the number of deposition
being upward of seven hundred. and SCI
enty-six thousand.
.'MY dear" said the sentimental Mr.
Waddles, "hOme, you know. is always Il
dearest spot on EARTH" 'Well yes" sal
the practical Mr.. Waddles, sit does co
me about twice as much as any 9TH
spot"
In more than half of the United Stat
aliens are accorded the right to hold al
convey real estate. 1t would be for h
interest of the country If like privileg
were accorded in all the States. In Ne
York the ancient law continues in fOrt
A GANG of swindlers, pretending to
Mormon emissaries, have been very 81
cessful in Paris selling certificates of
pretended Mormon loan. The princiI
parties engaged in the fraud have been
rested.
DIR. RUDOLPH DOEHN. formerly me
Der of the Missouri Legislature, and no
for his translation of Badeau's "Milits
Life of General Grant," and other Amt
can works, is now chief editor Of the ID
den (Saxony) Press.
SIX establishments in New Orleans W
an aggregate capital of one million
hundred thousand dollars, are engas
in the manufacture of oil and ole;
from cOtton-seed, the yield being one h
dred thousand tons per annum.
A SOLID celebrating society of BOs
decides that in Massachusetts power t,
to be regarded as an unfailing indicat
of unmanliness; it being everybOd
bOunden duty to be prosperous or {
to leave the State.
ONE of the most remarkable signs
the times--in Massachusetts, to
one of its most gifted orators come out
opposition to prohibition and in favo
beer drinking as preventive for int
perance.
Mrs. PARTINGTON wants to know v
some of the sewing-machine adverti.
do not call their machines the Ceres.
nephew, who is learning the heat
misogyny, tells her that Ceres first tau
sowing.
AN Iowa paper administers "cold G.
fOrt' to its brethren in Minnesota by p
fishing the following A country pa
in Minnesota wants to know who sv
died the Indians out of 'such an infer
cold country as Minnesota is, and '
deluded the white people into it."
ONE of Charles Lambs friends, visit
him with his wife and children, harper
i'm the course of the conversation, to
peat the old saying, Zone fool ms
many" "Ah, indeed" said Lamb, n
rily pointing to the children; "yOu /
fine family"
MRS. jerks" said a little red-hes
girl with pug nose and bare
'.mOther says will you Obleege her
lendin' her stick of fire-wOed-fill
cruet with vinegar-puttin' q little
soap in this pan-and please not let J
turkey-gObblers roOst on our fence"
Framework for Fiction.