The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-12-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Legislature recently elected in
islature elected by that State, the first
election having occurred Sept. 81, 1875.
The centennial OF the Battle of Fort
Moultrie, fought on the 18th OF June,
1776, is to be celebrated by the Palmet-
to Guards OF South Carolina, by erect
ing a sl2, 900 monument.
At Locustdale. Pa, recently, while
some men we're sitting on box Of pow
der, a spark dropped and ignited the
powder, which exploded and killed
three men.
A kerosene oil lamp exploded in q
shoemaker's shop kept by Conrad Zeig-
Ter, at Trenton, N. j. recently, and in
jnred six persons. One, named Geo.
Ashmore. will probably die.
Two men, named Chase and Sanders,
Of Perham, Aroostook county, Maine,
was frozen to death last week. They
started to go through the woods three
miles and were found dead two days
after.
An irreverent typo on the Syracuse
Journal blundered on Monday into the
following expression: "Christ was
humbug," and it so appeared in that
paper. 1t should have been "Christ-
mas humbug."
A Chicago. debating society is prspar.
ing to wrestle with the following quss-
tion: Resolved, that a man who
plays on an acordeon and keeps abark-
ing dog can't be Christian" Four
members to one want to take the mega
tive side.
The New York Commercial Advertis-
er incidentally refers to piano tuners
as "unscrupulous fellows" and they
are professional wire pullers who don't
mind straining point, that's fact
[St. Louis Republican.
Now" said n citizen Of Rawlins,
Wyoming Territory, at recent dance,
"you see that heifer in n red dress;
that's my wife; an ef yer dance with
her more'n two times, pard, I'll shute
the hull top nv yer head of. Whatu
yer drink ?"
A business man in Columbus, Ohio,
has conspicuously displayed in his
show window a mans skull, and print
ed in large letters across the forehead
these words Of warning to the daily
swarm of travelling statesmen, This
was drummer.
Mr.. Disraeli's study at his country
seat is in the attic aud very plainly fur
nished. A worn carpet barely covers
the floor, and his books are piled mis-
cellaneously upon shelves around tho
sides of the room. A large part of his
literary work has been done there.
Morrissey. the refomer, is going to
Washington TO start q gambling house
in opposition to John Chamberlin. II
is doubtful, though, whether the Dem
ocratic majority in the House is largo
enough to support two first-class gam
bling houses.
George Eliot's new novel is like
"Middlsmarch," story OF English
life. 1t is OF the present day, and
deals for the great part with the higher
sphere OF society. The Harpers have
secured its publication on this side,
paying what seems an enormous price
for the auFhncc sneets.
The Louisville Courier Journal
thinks the eternal fitness OF things re-
quire that the 60. 900 surplus male pop
ulation OF Michigan be paired of with
the 60, 900 surplus female population Of
Massachusetts,, and that grand in ter
State wedding be celebrated. Not to
be outdone In this tender regard for
the ladies, We suggest different dis
position OF the surplus 10000 male
population in Kentucky: "Shoot 'em. "
Bishop Simpson, in an interview
with reporter OF the New York Her.
aid, said he should dcprecats any &C.
clestical body making utteranccs either
for OF against any candidates. He did
not think the Methodist clergy, as q
body, would support Grant for re-elec'
ton. but believed " he be chosen for q
third term the people vouii have done
wise,y. tn. Pfcsldsns Is not a mem
bsr Of the chursh, aud it neither ak
nor expects anything from bim-