New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-10-08
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- our persons out OF live IN Switzerland
are Ian Died prorrietors.
The pumpkin and buckwheat crop is UNI
usually large This season.
The blast furnace at Erie is again in blast
after many months of id!eness.
Gratitude, says an old cynic, is thankful
ness for iavOrs to be received.
Northern proverb: God created the
world, but the devil made Iceland"
The farmers are now affected by cderal
Influences, and business will soon be pres
sny.
1t is stated that the yellow fever has
never appeared in any climate at an elevation
of over ,, 500 feet above the sea. The high
est elevation it has visited in the United
States is AGO feet.
There is man ia Griffin, Ga, who has
so many children that he has to call the roll
every night. After looking through the
bitches surrounding his place, he counts them
and then shoyes them on to the post.
"A Texas orator was astOnished the other
day at seeing in a newspaper report Of his
speech, that he was represented as speaking
OF the obscenity in which a political opponent
had been alternating. He had said obscure
ty.
the body of his father from grave where it
has resided for thirty years in response to a
communication from the old gentlcinan's
spirit that he had been lying in the water all
these years.
The old staff erected in the year 1887 at
NEes. Point, which was blown down, has been
replaced by a new one OF Northern pine,
awenty-th:ne inches diameter at the base, and
seventeen at the cross-trees, the whole being
one hundred and thirty feet to the truck,
and costing $500.
The latest ghost story comes from Car
rington, Mo. The people of that village have
been treated to several exhibitions OF his
..hostship, who shows his face at the windows
of a respectable gentleman's house only in
DAYTIME The window and the face seem to
belong together, for to whatever point the
former is removed, the face goes also.
The Germans threaten lager beer war
against the United States Government, as
decision has been reached that beer key is
entitled to but one bung-hole. AS this will
prevent swndling, there is mutny among
The retailers.
That's rich! We sent off our transit Of
Venus expedition some two or three months
ago, and here is a Mexican expedition for
similar purpose reported at Havana, en- route
for New York city! What come they here
foro
A Columbus 6. c. newspaper describes
a new style of tumbier recently introduced
into one of the restaurants in that city, the
rim of which is $50 prepared as to tlltilate
the lips and add delciOusly cooling and &C
ceptable flavor to the contents"
AT Paterson, New Jersey, in suit for
$4,000 damages against DIR. Richards for
malpractice in the treatment of boys bro
ken arm, whereby the boy lost his arm and
nearly lost his life, the jury returned verdict
of $1,000 for the plaintiff.
- Rather a singular accident occurred at
WarriOrsmark, Pa, recently. young man
was in the act of tying his horse to post,
and having passed the bride rein through
hole in the post, slipped the first two fingers
of his left hand in the loop of the strap pro-
ecting from the hole, and was about to pick
up stick to insert in the loop, when the
horse jumped back and tore both fingers en-
tirely off the hand.
A balloon ascension was advertised as
one of the attractions Of the county fair at
Morenci, Ia, few days ago. While being
inflated the machine broke away, and a Uan
who was assisting in the operation got bis
leg entangled in the trapeze ropes and was
carried up to a height of nearly mile. He
succeeded in righting himself and hung on
until the balloon descended into an open
field some distance away, when he was res
cued. frightened but unhurt.
- Did anything about the defendant strike
YOUR eye as remarkable?,, asked the Judge OF
the plaintiff in case of assault and battery.
at did yer honor" "And what was it, con-
tinued the Judge" His fist yer honor"
Herr Rattaplan, who plays upon sixteen
drums at the same time, is giving exhibitions
of his skill i'm Cincinnati.
"A person in IIardwick, Mo-, displayed
the following inscription on his fence: NO
buddy hitch no hosses to this fens."
During a heavy storm, one night last
week, drOver living near Charlton, Ia, had
nearly a thousand head Of hogs drowned.
Now Autumn turns the leaves Of the
book of Nature, and day by day the contents
become more beautiful and brilliant.
"A letter of inquiry as to the cost of Phil
adelphia (bOgus) medical diplomas has been
received in that city from Malaga, Spain.
-Chicago's latest claim to fame is that OF
being the most uninsured city in the world.
But its assurance is altogether unlimited.
"A poor sewing girl in an Indianapolis
shirt factory turns out to be an illegitimate
daughter of an English naval officer of high
rank by Portuguese lady, and now heiress