Richland beacon., 1873-04-05
GENERAL ITEMS,

WISCONSIN grows timber for masts
100 feet long.
Why are old maids odd? Because they
are unmatched.
If three miles make league, how many
make conference?
wn. hE snc is belle. ~ " "''"'h
THERE are fifteen hundred and .xty
postOffices in Iowa.
A GIRLS school for type ettlng mas
been opened in Vienna.
Your genuine cOcl.iey is always Ia
nous for 'alf-and-'s orlsms.
CANNIBAI's ey,taph: "Write me as
one who loves tis fellOw-men."
WIEN is the weather most like a crock
cry shop? When it's muggy.
IT is said in Washington the almighty
dollar is almightier than ever.
IL Wall street, when broker can't bull
the market, he grins and bears it.
CALIFORNIA gold miners have taken to
prospecting by the artesian method.
THE feast of Notwithstanding no
dinner, but reading a cookery book.
Do not imagine an individual is going
to spin yarn because he knits his brow.
Coon news for Observation-Disclosures wear
their dresses longer than they used to do.
THOUGH fine feathers make fine birds,
fine birds don't always make fine feath-
ers.
In 1862 Texas had but twenty-one con-
victs in her State Prison. In 1872 there
were ga.
EGGS are said to be very scarce in Ohio,
because the hens are in the habit of mis-
laying them.
How do you know house is often
hungry? Because We see the chimney
swallow flies.
IT's a way with tailors to recommend
things which are much worn when you
want to buy new.
IMAM is a mystery" said young lady
to her beaux. "Yes, DEAR" said he, sand
girl is MISERY"
A New HAMPSHIRE pedagOgue says he
has more pupils in his eye than any other
man in the State.
GOOD DR.. Dwight once said: He that
makes little child happy for one hour is
fellow-wOrker with God"
MORE than 100000 Of briar-wood
and other wooden tobacco pipes are
made yearly in this country.
VRRMONT-where, as is well known, no
habitual "hard drinkers" and 10000
young men just beginning to drink.
The orange Is very hardy tree, will
than any other fruit trees and is very long
lived, bearing undiminished crops for a
century.
KANSAS girls in great numbers are sign.
ing a pledge not to marry any man who
drinks. There is great temperance re.
vival going on in nearly all of the West
ern States.
A COLORADO wOman's triumphs are
thus set forth: Half an acre of tobacco
three corn fields, twenty-eight turkeys
and church congregation in which she
leads the choir.
BRET HARTE's stepfather is dying and
coming to life again all over the country.
No event since the formation of the Fed
eral Constitution has afforded such an ar
gument in favor of the resurrectiOnists.
OLD tOpers in England feel themselves
to be patriots and bear becoming port
since the Earl of Derby has sal J. speaking
about the tax on liquors, ave have drunk
ourselves out of the Alabama difficulty
during the past year."
The gathering Of the tribes has made
little progress as yet, Palestine, according
to the late census, having a Jewish pOpl-
latiOn of only 1928 souls. OF these 900
live in Jerusalem, 1000 i'm Safet, 1900 in
Tiberias, and 400 in Hebron.
THE Delaware peach growers honestly
admit that the prospect for good crop
this year is as favorable as last year, when
an immense crop was harvested. The
"eyes of the world are on little Della.
ware;" so far as early peaches go, at any
rate.
THE passage, by both Houses of Con
gress, of the bill authorizing the laying
of the new telegraph-cable between Cali
fOrnia and Japan give4 kind of official
sanction to that enterprise, and viii
probably insure its success. This is tn,
last link in the great electric chain. and
when it is completed, we shall be able t(
put girdle round the earth in a shorter
time than Puck.
The Quebec Mercury is trying to shame u;
who have been complaining of the severity
Of the winter here, with the pretense thai
Quebecians are i'm love with temperature
of a daily average of 10 to Is deg. below
zero. 1t says that with bright sunshine
and even moderate wind, the city ma
irons, beaux, and bellies, never think o.
missing their daily promenade simply be
cause the thermometer marks 10 deg. be
low zero and we have met the most deli
cate women out and far from home wher
the mercury was 30 degrees below zero.
Let us go to Quebec-in August.