Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-10-28
All Sorts.

II man marries ballet-dancef
will his children have step-mother:
Somebody gives tine definition Of
nowhere-A place where no Yankee
has ever been, and never will be.
A Western congregation recently
discharged their pastor because OF his
'sinordinate consumption of beer"
"Salts of demoniac" was recently
called for in a country store in west
ern Massachusetts,. The apOthecary
filed the bill with pint of New Eng
land rum.
Notice having been given that
honeymoon cars are to be run on
the Pacific Railroad, the Courier
Journal suggests that divorce cars be
added to all trains leading to Chicago
and indianapolis.
their muscle and on their shape, but
from the fact that there has been
scull race on the Harlem river we con-
clude that they are now trying to
travel on their head.
Doctor" said man to Abernethy,
"my daughter had fit, and contin-
ued for half an hour without sense or
knowledge" "Oh," replied the
doctor, "never mind that; many peo-
Pile continue so all their lives"
A Pekin 1llinois) woman was asked
by the preacher if her husband feared
the Lord? She replied: "Fear Him!
Why, bless you, he is so feared Of
Him that he never goes out on Sun
days without taking his gun along"
a handsome lady at Peoria made a
bet that she could raise $40 in twenty
minutes from crowd at the passen-
ger depot, and by getting tears to her
eyes and claiming to have her pocket
picked, she soon possessed purse
containing S62.
An Irishman writing from Philadel-
phia, the other day, to his friend in
the old country, concluded letter
thus: "If liver its me good fortune to
live till dy-and God nose whether
it is so-Pll visit ould Ireland afore l
lave. Philamadelify."
A novel application of ice was
made at st Louis the other day, when
forty-fiye tons were used to cool, and
thus contract the iron tubes of the
mammoth suspension bridge acrossthe
Mississippi, to allow the insertion Of
the connecting tubes.
"Moccasin Caucus is what the
freedmen down South call the hdbcds
corpus, and one of them in Eufala
looks ut it in this light: "Oh, yes,
take i'm out wild de moccasin caucus,
and turn i'm loose to kill anudder Mig
ger. Sumbody gwine to get hurt
bout this moccasin caucus yit."
An immediate contrast in the Eng
llsh Probate Office: John Staurt Mill,
philosopher, died worth s14,OOO; Ben
jamin Grigsby, potato merchant of
Shorditch, died worth 100000. The
philosopher was perhaps surprised at
having so much to leave; the potato
man probably regretted having SO
little.
ASitka correspondent thus describes
Alaska scenery: "Take one big noun
tain, covered with trees from the base
nearly to the summit, with an over
growth of brush, briers and moss, al
most impassable-multiply the one by
ten thousand, and you have Alaska.
There is a terrible sameness. One sim
gular feature of this mass Of forest is
the absence of birds; l have seen but
one robin in Sitka."
1t is usual to throw away yrape-
stones as waste product, but it ap-
pears that they can be turned to good
account. When roasted and ground
they possess an aroma very much like
that of East India coffee, and the
beverage obtained therefrom is about
the same as coffee in taste, though in
ferior in quality. An acre of vineyard
ordinarily yields 80 to 40 pounds of
this seed.
BY the way, / can not resist quoting
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gladstoneism
which has just appeared. In letter
about WedgwOOd, the potter, Glad
stone, wishing to say that he was an
ingenious and pushing manufacturer,
calls him "that remarkable person
whom observation and reflection lead
one to regard as perhaps the most dis
tinguished individual in the whole his
tory of commerce taken from the
earliest ages.'' The force of pleonasm
could no further go.-[London Letter