Middletown transcript., 1875-03-20
Uarieties.

Der, November and December
A bill to punish baggage smashing is
before the Missouri Legislature.
At fashionable weddings, in Paris.
the bridesmaids are unattended BY
groomsmen.
The diocese Of Wisconsin has voted
to confirm Bishops De Koven and
Jaeger.
Uruguay proposes to held an inter-
national fair in that country next Au-
gust.
Ohio is said to have more idiots in
her asylums than any other State in
the Union.
Michigan now proposes to put por-
ton of her convicts to work in the cop
per mines.
The discovery has been made that
grape leaves make yeast in some re-
spects superior to hops.
The whole Baptist population Of the
the United States is now estimated at
8, ,OoO, 900.
Two hundred horses are reported to
BE- training in New York stables for the
spring races.
A Lincoln (Nebraska) hotel has the
Lords Prayer. in full. printed on the
daily bill of fare.
Mrs. Gubbins says her husband is
like a tallow candle: be always will
smoke when he goes out.
The capital represented by the agri-
cultual interest Of Great Britain is esti-
mated at 1000. 600, 900.
It is now proposed in Minnesota to
pay into the poor fund the money receiv-
ed for licensing the liquor traffic.
The snow storm in Michigan on the
Sd inst. temporarily stopped railroad
travelling in that State. a
Societies having for their object, the
establishment Of women suffrage have
been formed in Ireland.
In twsnty-seven counties in Tsnnss-
see II, ,469 sheep are recorded to have
been killed by dogs the past year.
Ex-senator Benjamin Wade. it is
said, will probably be the Republican
candidate for Governor in Ohio.
A New York merchant, who adver-
tissd recently for boy, found one in
basket on his door step next morning.
A Russian gentlemen, it is said. has
undertaken to ride from st. Petersburg
to Vienna in 21 days in the saddle.
A man Of large experience says bin
acquaintancss would gil cathedral,
but pulpit would hold his friends.
Queen Victoria carried off the first
prize fur pigs and Hsrefordshire heifers
at the Christmas cattle show in Lon
don.
An Ohio journal tells Of the inap-
guration. Of ga spelling school move
ment. which is destined to sweep the
country"
Flora Temple is said to he thirty
years old, and her owner is doing all
in bis power to tighten her road to the
glue factory.
One Of the six hundred who charged
SO gallantly but Intellectually at Balak-
lava, is student at Bangor Theologi.
cal Seminary
Advicss from Buenos Ayres say that
the wool clip in that region will be
from Is, 900 to 10000 bales below the
average.
A lady was the defendant in recent
breach -of-prcmise case in London. The
jury gave her disappointed lover 826
damages.
A candidate for county clerk in
Texas offered to register marriages for
nothing. His opponent. undismaysd,
promised to do the same, and throw a
cradle in.
Admitting that home is woman's
sphere, an English paper asks what is
to become Of more than half a million Of
women in that country who have no
sphere at all
1t toek three hours for court to
decide whether a witness should be
allowed to answer the question What
did Mary say?" The point being de-
cided. the witness replied "Not
word"
The steamer Battle, Of the White
Star Line. recently made a trip from
New York to Liverpool and back in
three weeks. including the time occupied
in loading and unloading at Liverpool.
An order was recently received al
the Pennsylvania Railroad tin shops
at Altoona to discharge II Of the
hands. The men drew lots among
themselves to determine who were to
be the victims
An Illinois granger is about leasing
$500 acres of land in Monroe county,
Mississippi. upon which fsftv nl;no;e