The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-03-13
GENERAL TALK.

butchers meat, may be pleasantly consoled
by the reflection that fish diet is supposed
to develop the brain. Mark Twain recon-
mends small whale to certain people not
over gifted in the rsnsard.
To Judge from the tone of the Salt Lake
Tribune, the Mormons do not dread the ap-
proach of the United States troops half a.
much az the adven. Of corrupt officials. Th.t
Journal expresses the mos. friendly feelings
to Gen. Sheridan and the army generally,
who might be'rsy their office, and special
legislation dsprivins cur citizens of their
rights" This statement is evidently found
ed on experience.
Mics Anna Dickinson is TO become the
wife of Mr.. Wbitelaw Reid, the editor of
the New York Tribune. At least 40 news
papers a, Auburn, \. y, announce on the
authority OF Annals brother, and the same
fact is stated by Whi;elaw's sister.
1t is reported from Washington that
Colonel Clark Carr, OF Galesburg, Illinois,
Territory of Colorado. Colonel Carr, dur
ing the last campaign did good service in
Pennsylvania, speaking in pirsburg on one
or two occasions.
Public -entimen. in Kentucky is advanc-
ing so rapidly that the editor OF the Louis
vile COagier-J0arpGi stands in imminent
danger of being Gu, off from his sources of
inspiration. Hear his plant: ''If gentle
man seeks to take bit of whisky and water
in all its length and breadth he has to I'M
bibe it ont of a demijohn disguised as a
baby, and hid in barrel Marked sugar.
He now pleads the baby ac; every hour of
the day.
1t is ro~ announced that there will lie
no more free passes Issued over the Union
Pacigc Railroad. This may be regarded as
a direct re-ul, OF the Credit .Mobiier devel-
opmenis. 1t would be pleasant to believe
that the determination had been reached IA
a par, OF Il general pro yramme to make the
road earn every dollar it could for the bene-
lit Of the Government, which has already
suffered SO severely on its account. 1t is
more likely to be in revenge for the base in
gratitude of Senators, Representatives, legis-
lators, and officials Of all kinds, who have
| received so many favors from the corpora
! ton only TO show base ingrati,ude by deny
i1g that they ever had anything TO do with
Il, or knew anything about it. But, what
ever the moving ca,ise may b., the change is
| good one.
Speaker Blaine, when the House was
voting 10 raise his salary, asked and obtained
consent TO inleEline the bill as applicable to
his salary so as to apply " hereafter" He
carried his point, and with j, a stern rebuke
TO dead Congress TIN, would thus vote it.
self hundreds of thousands 0! The PEOPLES
money.
Signs OF returning reason are given in the
following paragraph from The Walnut Valley
| Times
The proposition submitted to the voters of
| Cowley county to take stock in the Kansas
| & Nebraska Railroad TO the amount of
| $3.50, 600 was defeated bv large vote last
| Saturday.
General George A. Cns,ar, was at the
| Gait House, Louisville, las. Monday night, |
having just returned from Lexington, where
he purchased splendid saddle horse, Ber-
nado:re, noted for his speed in hurdle /
Pace.
A gentleman recently arrived from
London, in giving his experience Of New
Yori, boarding house, said i, Was "mosi
s,raoTdinary; but, by Jove. ii seemed to be
hash Wednesday every day in the week"
There are two opinions as to Pome
crows guilt" says the Cleveland Herald; !
''there is bu. one opinion az to Iork's char
acte-" York sholld make no his mind,
like the nan in the play, ''never TO do
gooi-nat,.red action as long as he lives
A workman while repairing one OF the
Outer Venetian blinds OF an aris;ocratic es-
Enlistment, missed his footing and .ell into
the street. Acrcwd gathered around him
and raised him up, when il WAS found that
he bad received only few slight con,usions.
Meanwhile, one OF the servants brought him
glass Of water. Making wry face, the
man said, 'Oaiy water. From what
height shonli have TO fall to get g!ass Of
hear?''
-"Pray sir, oil what profession sre your
asked an eminent lawyer OF witness who
bad come prepared TO prove fact, and who
was rot deemed very respectable. 'Slr, l
am shoemaker and wine merchant "a
what, sir?'' said the learned counsel. "a
wire merchaG, ard shoemaker" "Then,"
said the counsel, 81 may describe you as a
sherry cobbler.'
The Chicago Post has this interesting
announcement: Queen Victoria will appear
in public next season more than she has
during any year since the death Of Prince
Albert The Queen remarked to us the
las; time We saw her that whenever she de-
termined TO go into society more than Usual,
she would let US know through the Chicago
Pos. - tourier-Journoi.
-Woman's ingenuity is certainly beyond
comprehension. 4 D,nbury lady-the
Ncgs tells us-besought her husband TO get
a coal stove. and devote the res. of their life
to tina, fuel, but he woi,jn't do it. lie said
wood was cheaper, and he might as we'll be
choppirg it and saving the money. Having
exhausted her eloquence without any effect,
-he hit upon a very simple device. She ex-
tended her clothes line over his chopping
block. After supper he adorned himself
With his axe and went out for fuel, and fTe
minutes later came tearing into the house
without his hat, and with his mouth half full
OF blood, lacera,ed gums and broken teeth.
A bright and cheerful coal fire now illumi-
mates that home.
1t is hardly credi;aals, bu; those Della
ware ach-yroxer have really got together
and admitted pablicly that the recent cold
weather ha. no, damaged the peach cop.
THE brile wasn't remarkably hand
some," speaking of Ken,ucky wedding,
"out her father threw in seven nu!es aud i
the husband was satisfied"
What il rhe ml,ter With the elements !
this year? They seem to be all out of gear,
running wild, without system, regularity,
consistency, or 6ecebcy. Is it because the
earth's crust ia growing colder. because the
sun has not changed its spots, or because {
the sun ha-n'. any spots? The present win