The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-07-28

A boy at Mona, Iowa, was struck
by lightning on Tuesday. OF last week.
and the back of his new coat torn en-
tirely out, although no other injury
was done until the boy got home,
when his economical father thrashed
him for tearing his coat. How sharp
er than the lightning's flash it IS to
have particular father.
Cotton came from India o long
while to be spun, but now the mills
threaten to 90 to India to spin the
cotton. Iron in America, cotton in
India. At this rate how is England
to maintain her industrial suprem-
acy?
A rich New Yorker has spent $12 :
600 on q volume of poems which he Is
having printed for private circulation.
He is excessively nice and tickle
about the punctuation, which has
been changed so many times that the
work will cost $50 per volume, as the
edition will be only 200 copies.
The famous Cunard steamer Scotia
has made her last trip across the At,
lantic for that company. and Will
probably be sold She was the only
side-wheel vessel in the transatlantic
trade, and was withdrawn because she
was very expensive and constantly
getting out of order.
A Paris newspaper sent q special
reporter to Rouen to report an i'm
portant centennial. He sent the fol-
lowing dispatch: 1.-The distribution
of prizes took place at half-past four
to-day. It has just terminated, and l
am too hungry to write you the result.
You will wait until tomorrow"
When we read in an exchange that
an editor has just received from En-
gland the sorrowful intelligence of
the death of the aged mother of his
brother-in-law" the fraternal feeling
of the editorial bosom goes out to
that man in gush of deep sympathy.
A gentleman said to an old lady
who had brought UP a family of chill
dren near a river: II should think
you would have lived in constant fear
that some of them would have got
drowned" "Oh, no." responded the
old lady, I'VE only lost three or tour
in that way"
The people in the vicinity of Butte
county, Zeal. }, about one hundred and
fifty miles inland, have turned out en-
masse to shoot and drive away the
thousands of pelicans which are how
eriug about the Big Meadow lake and
eating up all the fish. One of them
was found with four trout in his
pouch.
Our readers may not know how
English race horses run. This is the
way that a writer on one OF the Lon
don dailies spoke of Doncaster, the
winner of the Ascot cup: He
grasped the sward with his fore feet
as il he were about to vault skyward,
and he flung his hind legs from him
with the force Of a catapult.' No
wonder he sold for $4,000.
The New Orleans and Mobile Rail-
road Company has recently purchased
10000 barrels Of creosote.oil, to be
used for the protection of their bridge
timbers, and pulling against the at
tacks of the marine worm, the TEREDO
NAvALIs. The TEREDO is so destruc-
tive to timber on the South Atlantic
and Gulf coasts that piling is fire.
quently rendered entirely worthless
In the space of eighteen months.
The incendiary kerosene is still
seeking whom it may devour, and a
young girl in Astoria, n. Y, was the
last victim. She attempted to light
fire with kerosene, when her clothing
caught and she was burned to death.
Her mother was lying sick in the
same room, but being too weak to
render assistance, was compelled to
see her daughter burn to death.
A rural contemporary says garden
vegetables are looking on" 1t was
our impression that they were rather
down in the mouth"
The New York Herald thinks it
was lust their luck" when the Lon
don Times threw up the sponge for
Alfonso at the very time when the
Carlists gave way on the whole line.
A downtown resident wants part
ner in the pie plant business. 1t takes
four pounds of sugar to one FOUND of
pie-plant. He wants the partner to
furnish the sugar. he being willing 10
furnish the plant and divide the pro-
ceeds half and half. A fine oppor-
tunity for a poor man who can't afford
to have pies on Sunday, to get them
cheap.