The Red Cloud chief., 1874-03-26
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The Changers number 75l, lbs.
BERLIN ~reioices in one street railway.
THERE are 6i.Ooo people in Rich
mond.
WHATEVER is, is right" II il isn't
well make il so.
The dentists are pulling through the
hard times remarkably we'll
Dro LEWIS says that high living is the
foundation of every cemetery.
NEARLY every pound Of butter usedin
Florida is shipped from Ohio.
eaS cost of the London underground
railway was Fl. OO0. 900 per mile.
"HAr fever" is what Members Of
Congress call the Granger rage.
THERE are 655 Good Templar lodges
in Wales, with &C. ZOO members.
A MAN at West Wheeling, Va, made
l16 kegs of eight-penny nails in a week.
Harper's Magazine is offered 100
articles = week. Less than ten are ac-
cepted.
SIx-P.NNY kilograms are to be intro
duced in England, and half penny letter
postage.
In less than a century the whole ara
bic land of the United States will be Ia
ken up by actual settlers.
The Athens (Tenn.) Post thinks that
Andrew johnson will be the next Con
gresham from that district.
A FRENCH novelist has one of his
characters bored through with an anger
in the hands Of an American.
In Naples a barber will shave, cut
hair, comb, brush, black boots, and give
you a cigar and call it square for ten
cents.
ACCORDING tn recent returns. the
total amount invested in English rail
ways Is f329, 09O, 900, or about 81, 64O,-
0O0, OO0.
ONLY n man has ever dared 10
climb the spire Of 81. Paul's Church,
London, though EDO is offered 10 any
one who will repaint the ball.
"NAPKrNs, sir, napkins :" roared a
Green Bay landlord; "no, sir, We
haven't got any but if You want to wipe
your moss I'll lend you my handker-
chief"
DURING the impending famine in In
dia the Government will be called upon
to supply half a pound of grain per
day, for eight months, to %, 600, 900
people.
SAM FOSTER, Of Washington county,
n. Y, threshed, by hand, ninety bush-
els Of oats in thirteen hours. Sam
should get out a patent for himself i'm
.nediately.
OK the occasion OF the one hundredth
anniversary birthday of Mozart, recent
ly, it was proposed to decorate his
grave, but DO OF was able 10 point ont
the final resting place Of the immortal
composer.
Or the 2,059 convicts sentenced 10 the
Maine State Prison during it's fifty
years of existence, there has been but
n clergyman, and, 80 far MS is known,
but n person who was a member OF q
Christian church.
The French Government has decided
that the Chinese Museum ut Fontaine-
blesu and the collection Of arms and
armor ut Picrreford belonged 70 the
private estate of Napoleon ILL.,, and
must therefore be paid for by France.
Com meal, heated and placed in
bags, is recommended as a substitute
for hot water bottles and such like ap-
pliances, for restoring warmth 10 the
sick. 1t is said 10 weigh less, retain
heat longer, and does not chill when
cold.
The enormous profits OF street rail
roads in some cities is shown by the re-
port of the Third Avenue railroad in
New York. It's receipts last year were
s., lao, 2i6 expenses, 81, 214, 1872, leav-
ing a handsome dividend of e926. 694 on |
s 2,0OO,0O 0 Of stock.
In England, street railroads are com.
monty known an trarnways. The word !
:" tram" Is said to I've an abbreviafion of
"Ontrxm," the father Of Sir James
Outrsm. renowned for his military ex-
plots in India, having been the inventor
Of trans and tramvsya.
The question of regulating railway
rates and management by Law is nox
pending in the Legislatures OF Mime
sots, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas. The question is rapidly as
summing q national importance and will
hardly be settled short Of the highest
judicial decision.
T~HrKrY-sEvEs Of the seventy-tvo Zen
ators In Washington are accompanied
by their wives, and nineteen have their
with them. OF the 2gs
Representatives and Delegates, 10
have their wives With them, and many
Of the others are accompanied by
daghters and lady friends.