The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-01-30
MEMS AND oruE. lrcaa.

-Milwaukee clsims TO brew more beer
hat any other city in the country.
-Kentucky has two ssylums full Of
unaiic's and wants another 10 ST.
-fbiladelphia started washius,oo
monument thIrty-oGe years ago, and has rot
Sl0.S4 toward il.
Nearly an the officers on King Victor
Emsnuei's staff have American wives.
-Georgians pay for stolen turkeys ct the
rate of two lsshes pound.
The Western Union Telegraph co,n-
pany lost two Thousand poles duri.y he
recent gale in New jersey.
AN Iowa buzz-saw jumped on, Of saw.
mill and ran haIfa mile without finding any,
thing to chaw up in its path.
A Fair Haven lady mourus over the
loes OF canary twenty yeirs Of sg., Who
has be'o ne incorI GRATED into a cat.
A New Yorker vss attacked and 20
injured by huge black cat, the
other day, that he row lies in Bellevue
Hospital.
Dentists in I.ockpor', New York, have
hard work 10 get along since winter set in
TIE b - on their little sleds knock GU, all
the TEEN found on the streets.
The inmates of New Jersey hotel all
locked their doors, recently, because a crazy
woman shouted through the corridors, "Pre-
pare ye, the Lord il coming"
"A sorely tried mother says che dossn't
have half the trouble keeping moths out of
the clothes as she docs keeping paws out Of
The jam.
The West Point cadets will perform c.
CO duty At Wsshin ,ton on the 4ih OF March.
The Inauguration will be very splendid a.
fair, both civic and military.
More spinning-w wheel. are sold ut Boz
ton now than in the days when they were in.
dispensab'e TO every New England house.
hold. They are mostly exporter 10 Nova
Scotia and the otter British provinces.
"A Lafayette, Indiana, stree, car conduc-
tor has got rich enough to bny Oh, the com
pany, and now proposes to extend the road
and run two trips day. which will Decessi-
tate the purchase Of another horse.
-Muskrats are so scarce in Mime sofa
that the lovers of Choice perfumes ara com-
PEELED to fall back on peppermint, winter
green and sassafras EXTRACTS. One chap at a
select party in ST. Psnl was much admired
because his hair was favored with vanilla.
The honest municipal government
which New York obtained when il tumbled
Tweed and his associate rascals out OF Office,
and scared Mayor Hall into an unnatural
cost the city more than eight and
a-haif millions less last year than the Tam
many rule did in the preceding year. Here
is one substantial gain, a, least
The hide Of the elephant Romeo, former
ly the property OF Adam Forepaush has been
tanned IN the most approved manner, and
will occupy no little space in the collection
Of curiOsities Of the Cnicaso Academy oil
Science. The hide contains 2l2 square feet,
weight 74S pounds, and averages three-quar-
ters of an inch in thickness. During the
process Of tanning, the services of eighteen
men We're required to handle it while sim
mering in the vals.
ANY hard steel tool will GU. glass with
great fac;li when freely wet with -camphor
dissolved In turpentiDe. A drill, may he
used, o: even the hand alone A hole Dor
ed may be easily enhanced by round file.
The ragged edges Of glass vessels may alsO
De easily smoo,hed thus with flat file.
Fiat window glass can be readily saved
with a watch spring by aid of this solution.
wrouabt almost =. easily "a hr,s, h~ az
rs. Of cu,,,r. tool, Lsn, c,,s,sn,I. -,
w;,b c,mnho,i,sd ali of ,nrns,,,;na ''
The Old Liberty bell, which for long
Ilme has rested In Independence Hall. in
Pa'ladelphia, where, together with cooked
i,u,on.rv L. :, b.s 49,, .I :. 49,. ..
ronsr,I;o, AMI ave- va. removsj ~ H. - ~"
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nd amn.s he eJ,;,5,sn
AT Silver Mountain. California, a few
lays ago. Ernst Rei-ch deliberately fred a
.harge of buck-hot into the back OF E-rick
Errickson's head, as the latter waa Playing a