, 1873-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS,

: Seven Thousand women belong to tho Belgian
Internationals,
49, WyGming MT % long agG, @ t,,s x9qsn Rsa
her husband Ind just been killed In q drunlon
brawl.
Hiram Green, Esq., bays "The dineronco
botween oakeB Ames plongh-ahares and his
only stool-pointed. while tho latter seem to bo
all steal"
This is tho way they keop up the balance Of
power in kentucky: "To the wifo Of James
TO the wife Of Robert Ritchey, OF Fayetto coun-
"A Michigan husband loft q noto bequeathing
to bis vito the rope with which he hung bimaclf.
Not being one of the sentimental kind, Hhe useH
it for clothos-lno.
George Washington's clock was sold again
in Philadolphia the other day. George hated to
part with it, but the restaurant business not be-
ing brisk, his SALOON aud contents wero sold at
auction to satisfy hts ungrateful creditors.
A Tennessee schoo1master roprovad ono OF
tho big giria for spittn6on the ntove, aud Aer
big brother took down his little shotgun and
ohasod tho, ,peaagogue into North Carolina be-
An oil City boy ono Of that class Of urohins
vino seem sent upon tho earth for the solo pur-
Of bringing i p99u eTG psGpGG ?. to
their homo, recently put somet nitro-glycorine in
Ills sisters hustle when size was going out
skating.
-MSoh Of tho pleasure Of shopping must bo
lost BY American ladies while making purchases
in Cairo. A writer in the New York World says,
regarding this "If you enter ehop you are
expected to purchase, while, to look ovor tho
goods for the mere enjoyment Of it, ts not per-
Somebody has utilized pet and other namos
thus Tor q printers wifo, EN-; for sports
wife, Betty; Tor q 1aywer's wife, Sue; for q
toamstor's wife, Garry; for iishermans wife,
carpet mans wife, Matte; for m auctionoors
wife, Bid-dy; for q chonaiat's wife, Ann Eliza :;
Tor an oneineor'B wife, Dridge-it.
"A learned writer i'll the At|antioM Monthly says
that II our esteemed grand-paront, tho Into Col,
Adam, hal lived until now, nnr had peyor
trimmed his flnger-nails, they would'to-day have
been a thousand yards long. We have novor
ceased to mourn tho carly death Of A., but il ho
had survived until now, with lis nails uncut wo
should hive insisted upon either cutting his
acquaintance or his uails-[ Louisville Courier
journal.
"A colored Washington belle, who had
aabaok at because hor mother had flo smallpox
but, equal to the emergency, she put tho old
lady in tho back part of tho houBo, md didn't
spoil tho fun OF tho company by saying anything
about It until they wero ready to adjourn. They
| hope 1t will DO M adjournment sine "die;" but
: - Don Juan Forster, THO great landowner oi
| Ban Diego County, Cal, has sent an agent te
Europe to induce emigranta, to settle on his yas q
| sole condition being the guarantee OF tho e1ui
grant that he will expend at least 81 900 in i'm
| provementB The first year. Each alternate aec
ton OF eighty acres tho Don rosoryes for him
| self.
-- Tho following record Of female ayocation.
! In tho United Btatcs iB taken from tho 1ecen
| census rsturna: Independent Of women farmers
| there arc Al fomale stock hordors, apprentices
md = s9ss hSsss B Bfssfn
sa se9tona nafS0n e ncana,mon al Eliot
9 guano lnborors, gas:Btokers, 35 guuamiths ,
| gunP,owder makers, and 10 sh'p,rlga ora.
mind would like to have someone explain how
it Ia that q bridegroom pledgca hi.nsef In the
marriage VOW to "cndow" tho bride with all Lis
one-thirl Of item Whom he dos; she saya ahe
must hnyo it understood TINT II alr' don't NEAR
g ono-third /" before she proanisoa to obey any
man, no matter how many goods he may pre-
tend to own. ~.
Berlin III magnificent capital, but thero Il
ohaneo OF future trouble. and q domand fol
romedal legislation III tho fact that not 1ees
l25 Goe Of it's insbltanta hna nda receive
pa5S 5 5Ssf ahn to aS anPa sayr5 sf osan ar3s5
pie live in collars, while 10000 aro crowded il
1890 wretchod, and genorally lreloss, rooms
There, aa everywhere olso, this overcrowdine
has occasionod great doprayity among tho poorer
Glasses. Fitty-two por cont OF tho population
belong to tho working olasses, and third O
this population Is occupied In tho factories
These Int arc too often diaBipatea rostluss, nut
ready for IN outbreak.
Libel suits against nowHpapors appear to bs
about M barron Of pecuniary profit on tue othel
side Of tho Atlantic US they usually arc Oil this
eilo The agont Of tho la!o Marquis Of lIortfort
WAS called upon to roaign by Biz Richard Wallace
the successor to tho IrBl, estates Of that doooaH
el abBontoo' and voInptunry. Tho Norther,
Whig, Of Dublin, congratulated tho tenants OF
their escape from tho dietatorial rulo Of tl'
agent. Ihe lattor brought IL ltbel suit, and oh
tsjned a verdict for $500, inntenl Of 950,0 QUO
Which lo wanted to got. Tho dofendsnt 10 no
willing to pay oven $500, aud has applied for
new trial.
An instrument las boon invented III nor
many for testing color-blinlnoss, II consists q
rotating apparatus, which lnoycs disk whoa
contrc Ia h cirolo, one half black md Tho otho
white; outside this ID u ring, half rod and lal
tho outside Of violet and grseu. Whom rapid
4 rotated. tho cpntyo appenr6 tQ bQ ool0Eo4 ElsJ