The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-12-27

To make money-Get an appoint
ment in the mint.
A chemist says he can reduce old
boot-legs to beefsteak.
An Ohio editor publishes marriages
under the head Of Attachment No
tees.
A man in Chicago announces him
self as the Methodist candidate for
constable"
Why does . railroad conductor
punch a hole in your ticket? To let
you pass through
There are said to be 1000 men in
Peoria, ILL.,. who want war with Cuba
provided they can go as suffers.
In Decatur, ILL.,, when a young lady
declines an offer to convoy her home,
he asks permission to sit on the fence
and see her 60 by.
The creditors of an absconding Yam
kee, found on opening his safe, that
the only thing he had laid up for a
rainy day was an umbrella.
A Cleveland dry goods drummer
has, during the last season, sold &c.,
600 worth Of goods, travelled 1000
miles and married four wives.
An advertisement for a district
school teacher. in New Hampshire,
concludes in this way: IN. R.-No
man need apply who wears shawl"
A young lady of Terre Haute, Indi-
ana, has proved her ability to support
q husband by shooting over one hun
dred quails this season.
A Wabash editor returns thanks
for centipede received by mail from
Texas, and says it is the first cent of
any kind he had seen in month.
An 'old citizen wishes to inform
the public that there's no use trying
to break those iron coal-hole covers
by setting down ON EN-" He knows.
An obituary notice in a Western
paper contained the touching intelli-
gence that the deceased had accumu-
lated little money and ten children. !"
To determine whether man is
drunk or not get him to say, 1.-The
scenery is truly rural" IF he says,
"trural rury, You may put him down
as drunk.
A friend writes to an editor for four
dollars, "becauss he is so id short, -
and gets in reply the hairless response,
DO as | do, stand up on chair"
"Git out O. the way'' we're the
warning words Of Donohue, of Geor-
gia, as he fired at Flemming. Leave
him thar to xix y was the brief SEN
tence of the committee who drew the
murderer up to the limb.
A pious old lady being asked BY her
pastor what she thought of the doc.
trine of total depravity, replied she
thought it most excellent doctrine
and had no doubt It had been The
means Of saving many souls
That is good story of little boy
who, going into book store, with hi.
mother, crept up 10 the juvenile of the
establishment with the sly query
"Say. have you got any books for boy
that amt got religion in emf"
The editor Of the Vicksburg Herald
spent $500 on church fair, hoping {,
get the prize of 5000 in gold, and h,
drew brass chain and 4 photograph
of George Washington. This worlt
has no further pleasures for him.
Now that the long winter evening
have come, there is nothing bette
than good entertaining work to read
We would recommend the Sc Ko
Tseyen Choo-the national encyclo
pedia of China-which is in 10000
volumes.
Congress has taken recess unit
the 9th of January, leaving all legisls
ton in an incomplete stage. Quite
number of the members will RENAL
at the Capital and attend to commit
tee work, among whom are mentione
Senator's Morton and Pratt, Of thi
State, both Of whom voted and wori
cd against any adjournment.