Richland beacon., 1873-09-20
EANINGS AND GOSSIP.

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81 .stonished to find, uponinquiry
is personal friends, how few of
I've this, not accomplishment any
han ciphering is an accomplish
simple acquisition, to be gained
few hours devotion. Besides the
Lntage O swimmer has when he finds
Aself, perforce in the water, another
eat gain ia the courage the conscious
ass of the ability to swim gives one,
when an accident is imminent. AS an
example, to show how even those whose
pleasure or whose duties call them con-
stantly upon the water neglect to gam
the knowledgeof swimming, only a short
time since, on q yachting trip, one OF
the party ascertained that neither the
owner, the skipper, nor the mate OF the
yacht, knew how to swim, while out OF
ten passengers four could not SWIM a
stroke. A well-knOwn captain informed
Ms that one-third of the officers and sail
ors of the English navy are also lgno-
rant upon the subject.
According to q Detroit paper,
/" gemman oh color" in that city, having
long admired a colOred widow living In
the next block above, but being afraid
to come out boldly and reveal bus pas
sion. went to a white man OF his &C
quaintance, the other day, and asked
him TO write the lady a letter asking
her hand in marriage. The friend
wrote, telling the woman, In few brief
lines, that the size of her feet was the
talk of the neighborhood, and asking
her If she couldn't pare them down a
little. The name Of the colored man
was signed, and he was to call on her
Sunday night for an answer. A few
DAYS after the writer of the letter met
the negro limping along the street, and
asked him what the widow said. The
man showed him a bloodshot eve, a
scratched nose, lame leg, and spot
on the scalp where a handful of wool
had been violently jerked out, and he
answered in solemn tones. "She didn't
say muffin, an I didn't stay dar morn a
minute
-Gen1 Mcclellan is general mana.
ger of q company just established in
New York, which is called the United
rolling stock company, and might be
denominated q railway livery establish
ment. It builds and buys, and keeps
ready to loan, such rolling stock as rail
way companies may need, such as loco
motives, passenger-cars, baggage-cars
freight-cars, coal-cars, etc. A railway
company Just established, which has
not the means TO stock its road properly
may have locomotives and cars to any
extent from this novel corporation,
which has, or shortly will have. ovel
one hundred locomotives ready for use.
and cars 0d Ibituni. The capital is
placed at 81, 600, 600, and good dividends
from it's operations are considered Ger
tain.
The manufacture of ice by artificial
processes has been carried on in some
places to q limited extent for number
Of years. An Englishman has now in.
vented o machine, which is already In
active operation at Manchester, that
does away with the expensiveness of the
manufacture, hitherto the great draw.
back to artificial ice-making. The
evaporation of iquefied ammonia sup
plies the freezing agent, and the ammo
MIA can be used, again and again, with
only trifing loss at each operation.
About 81. % Q ton is the estimated cost
by this process.
The French residents of New York
propose to present one of the " first
copies of Irving's Life of Washington
to M. Theirs. 1t is in the possession Of
the family of the late George p. Put.
nam, and, besides being enriched by
over 800 engravings collected by MI.
Putnam, it is rendered more precious
by several autograph letters of Washing
ton.
One Of GenI Meigs's newly in
vented explosive cartridges was tried
lstely on Q grizzly bear in the Rocky
mountains, and fetched him beautifully
The shot entered the bears head neal
the ear and exploded, disabling him i'm
mediately.
-Philadelphia objects to so mucl
counting in her theaters. Every othe
pair of seats ID occupied by q spoone.
couple, his arm around her and he
head half the time on his shoulder
and their soft and silly twaddle is al
intolerabls nuisance to people who hav'
outgrovu such things.
There is loud and growing outer.
against horse cars in London, which tn,
commissioner of police declares ar
"daily becoming greater nuisance Il
the general public, and it is quite pro
baby that street railroads will sool
Geese 10 exist. at least in tho heart o
the city.
Upward of one hundred miles O
wooden railway are in operation in tn
province Of Quebec. The guage is fou
feet eight and half inches. The run
ming time is about sixteen miles pc
hour. but the trains have run at th
rate Of thirty-ive miles per hour.
An Indian woman, whose suit fo
divorce had fingered along until she wa
completely out Of patience, burst int
her lawyers Office, last week, her fac
radiant with Joy, and exclaimed
esquire, the old mans dead !"
I'm old times. an essential part @
o brides outfit was sand for scOurin
her kitchen implements. Now-a-day
they don't trouble about the sand al
that Is required from the father is tina
he shall "down with thedust."
"A report Of the auditor of Ohio
just made, shows that the state contain
the following number Of the animal
mentioned below: Horses, ia, 600
cattle. l, 766, 81 mules, %, 738; sheep
1856, 1854 /; hogA a06a, 313.
The people Of Middleton, Ireland
lately "sezuck " against an increase i
the price Of gas BY refraining fror
using il in their houses or their streets
using oil instead, and the company ha'