The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-10-04
THE PALLADIUM.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1879.


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..Sermoactte' is what they call
4 brief discourse in Illinois.
One way to get out of a scrape-Let
your beard grow.
Kentucky papers are calling for their
back pay.
The Georgia farmers are organizing
Oranges.
Peru has introduced compulsory ed
ucation.
Boston funeral notices end with the
announcement, mo carriages.
An outbreak Of typhoid fever in
London is attributed to bad milk.
The Norristown Herald says defal-
cations won't stop till editors get hold
Of the Offices.
A GOOD man is kinder to his enc
mics than bad men are to their friends.
Bishop Hall.
.'Heroism is cheap" said q man the
other day. What the world wants is
common sense.
A Lake Superior paper has the fol-
lowing editorial leader: DO not trust
boys with guns"
mo Gunen Aloud Here" is . sign
intended for the information 0fspOrts-
men down in Maine.
Experience" says poor Richard,
keeps an expensive school, but Tools
will learn at no other"
London thinks of planting trees
along the principal streets OF the west
end.
The manufacture of butter from fat
is said to be growing industry In
New York.
The only needle factory in this
country is said to be that on Pigeon
creek, Chester county, Pennsylvania.
San Salvador is being rebuilt on
grander scale than before its recent
destruction by an earthquake.
It took 100000 buffalo skins to sup
piv the European armies with robes
and trimmings last year.
Lewisburg, Arkansas claims to be
the home Of an old lady who has wept
over the graves of ten departed hus-
bands.
The Indians in the neighborhood Of
Ottawa are becoming civilized. One
Of them, at all events, killed his father
the other day.
A bachelor editor, who had pref
ty unmarried sister. lately wrote to
one similarly circumstanced, Please
exchange"
Seven young women have entered
the University of Vermont, much to
the delight Of the boys belonging to
that institution.
An ignorant old lady was asked by
minister visiting her if she had re-
ligion. She replied: II have slight
touches of it occasionally"
It is reported that Baltimore man
who has q wart on his nose, recently
recovered $500 damages from another
man who had the impudence to call
''warty."
An Omaha girl introduced roman
tic mode of suicide. She stuffed hel
lovers letters down her throat until
she suffOcated.
The first morning chore Of Mont.
gomery, Alabama, clerk is to smear the
curbstone with tar as an admonitioI
to loungers.
A Newton county, Georgia, wild
over advertises for wife, and fastid
iously adds that no school girl neet
apply.
An English jury recently returned
a verdict of mot guilty; but we be
lieve he broke into the house for al
that"
A woman in the Joliet Penitentiar
cut off her right fore6nger, the othe
day, SO that she would not have t
sew; but they are going to keep her q
washing dishes.
$50 the doctor is practicing on
West, is hep said an old lady. wei
l declare to goodness, I'm glad of i
for always thought he needed prat
tice!''
A traveller says that in Spain un
brellas differ in size from an ordinaI
dinner-plate to small tent, and the
colors are as varied as the tints of Il
rainbow.
A Georgia newspaper informed j
readers that it was not worth while fl
them to raise boys. The agonized et
itor insists that he wrote the VOL
hogs.
A Louisiana man puts q two oun'
can of nitro -glycerine inside chicke
losses the chicken to an alligator, an
the BAYOU which once knew that all
gator knows him no more.
A Vermont woman undertook
paint the cellar stairs. She found
pail of paint, and commenced at Il
top, painting herself into the celia
and had to crawl out of the cell
window.
We stand ready, says the Gallipol
Journal, to make one Of mob
fling dead cats ut any young man wi
is caught in our streets between
O'Clock A. M. and II P. M. whistli1
"Mollie. Darling"
A Cincinnati servant girl was loo
ing through key hole, when sor
acid struck and destroyed her ey
She sued for damages, but the cou
only told her she might keep h
damaged eye.
A Connecticut editor, COMMENT
upon the fact that rival journalist
rapidly cultivating : champion ba
head, inquiries: Whats the use Of
Iuan having hair, anyway, when he c
fold his ears over the ton OF his head
Mullins, of Darby, it was who sa
long time, very attentively, must
upon cane bottom chair. At lene
he said-''I wonder what fellow to
the trouble to find all them ar no
and put straw around 'em