The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-12-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
The bell-boys at the Calf House

The bell-boys at the Calf House,
in Louisville, are all girls.
Stokes, the murderer of Fisk,
has only one year more of "retire-
ment." -
If man is found drunk in Yer
mont he is committed to jail and kept
there until he reveals who supplied
the liquor.
"A correspondent of the New
York Graphic labors under the apall-
ing conviction that Boss Tweed wasI
kidnapped. and has gone to join
Charley Ross =. Z : ~
VIM. B. Astor's father-in.law, |
was Maj. John Armstrong, the man
who wrote the Newburg letters urg-
ing Washington to make himself
King at the close of the Revolution:
Harvard student translating
"Wolzte 'ch mich schqttlos auf dem
Loger-I waltzed sleepily off for lag
er." Wild amazement of instructor,
and a ripping smile through the
class.
1t is again asserted by a London
correspondent that Col. Baker, now
in jail for indecent assault, will enter
the Russian service at the expiration
Of his term of imprisonment. The
Emperor has already signi6ed to the
Colonel that he can have suitable
position.
Although the Government. of
Yucatan has decreed compulsory vac
cination, the law remains a dead letter,
as the Indians refuse to be inoculated,
and even 60 SO far as to cut out the
marks in the bodies of those who
have been persuaded to submitfto the
decree. > |
The papers are bringing out
afresh the points Of Mr.. Evarts's an
cestry, to show the peculiar fitness Of
his selection as the Centennial orator.
His grandfather, Roger Sherman, was
a member Of the committee of the
Continental Congress which prepared
the draft Of the Declaration Of indie.
pendence.
| Carl Schurz continues to spend
Saturday nights and Sundays with his
family in New York city, and to oc.
cupy himself during the remainder
Of the week delivering his lecture,
and taking in his 5000 per night.
In Maine, Sunday cursing is
taxed two dollars per oath; on week
days the rate is lowered to only one
dollar per oath. The law is rigid
and the proceeds, when collected, are
to 60 toward founding a lunatic asy.
lum.
/ "A Maine paper publishes aide
cision drawn by Chief Justice Apple.
ton in a case growing out Of horse
trade, declaring that when a defend.
ant knowingly asserts a horse to be
sound which he knows is unsound
with the intent to deceive, an indict.
ment for cheating by false pretence<
will be sustained against him. !,
| According to the Boston .Pi1o1
there were in 1926, 80 years ago, one
Roman Catholic priest in Maine
one in Massachusetts, and one in
New Hampshire, with eightchurches.
There are now in New England, &C.
cording to this authority, /
archbishop, 5 bishops, AL priests,
| 49, churches, and a Catholic popula-
ton Of nearly a million.
! : The financial statement of the
| Methodist Episcopal Freedmen's Aid
Society for 1875 shows the receipts
to be $50, $3.50, and the disbursements
1886 less. In eight years the Socie-
ty has disbursed $523,799. Fifty
Thousand children have been. taught
in its day schools. It has laid the
foundation for three colleges in the
lSouthern States. -:
Eight hundred men s. feet high
and thereabouts gathered at the stage.
door of Booths Theatre in New York
Tuesday. They came in answer to
an advertisement, which called for soc
men to represent Romans in Julius
Cesar" which is shortly to be put on
the stage with unusual snlendor. The
salary Of a common Roman is &c
cents per night. The minimum
height Of the applicantswas fixed al
Is feet. Out Of the whole humble
| 250 were engaged. *''
With all the hue and cry about
the ill-health of American women,
the statement is made by the sPresi.
dent of a life Insurance company
that it is a fact that women livelonee1
in this country than in any other.
They. are less robust and muscular
than the women of other nations, but
their tenacity of life is strong, and
their constitutions are sufficiently en-
during to keep them alive considera.
bly, longer than their appearance, as a
general thing, would warrant. =.
-Ihe new gun which has recently
passed its first, ordeal in Woolwich
Arsenal, England, weighs eighty-one
tons. 1t was loaded with 22o, 2s0,
and 260 pounds of powder, the grain
cubes Of which measured II inches in
diameter. The cartridge was three