The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-03-04
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tongue while rocking in chair, and
b1ed to death.
Lying and stealing seem to be al
ways in order on two subjects-the
weight of the baby, and the first UNI
brella that comes handy.
Chicago has the only female
pension agent in the country-Miss
Ada Sweet-and she receives the high
est salary paid to a woman by the
Government.
"A thousand striking operatives
in the mills of Fall River, Massachu-
sets, have determined to. return to
England.
-Moulton, in his testimony, SAYS
that he lied to save Beecher. A
heather might ask: would he do
less to save himself?"
Mrs. Tilton has scripture on her
side, inasmuch as it reads, "As your
so, so shall you reap" .
Green maple wood at Mankato
sells for $2.75 to $500 per cord.
Prairie wolves are disturbing the
peace and quiet of the Rochester
folks. Several Of the varmints have
been shot on the edge on the city.
1t is said that while there are
claims amounting to 1000 against
the Duluth Elevator Company, both
elevators would not sell for more than
100000.
George Alfred Townsend says of
Theodore Tilton **Let him compose
a beautiful epitaph, repeat it to Mrs.
Woodruff and few hundred other
sympathetic old maids and gr:.ss-wi.|-
ows, and then get under it,"
The physicians of New York
hospital rejoice in good run of bro
ken legs" caused by falls upon the
ice.
Advertising pays-a Dubuque,
Iowa, man who advertises largelyywas
thereby discovered by a wife ''' whom
he deserted several years ago.. ...~
Dan Rice is again and over
whelminglyt a bankrupt. He has
over 200 creditors, scattered.over. the
United States; and his indebtedness
amounts to 100000. Assets, one
suit of clothes, $75.
Canada has a trig little debt
which grows we'll. Her interest &C.
count is now $5,724,00O, and her .ex-
penditures last year were$23, $4,000,
or more than third as much as ours
were before, the war, against 81 ,OO0;-
0O0zin, 1872.
The total quantity Of anthracite
coal mined in Pennsylvania in 1874
was 21 100000: tons, :or over 100000
600 cubic feet. Placed in one solid
mass, this would form a solid wall
one hundred feet high, one hundred
feet wide, and nearly eleven miles in
length.
:; "A telegram from St. Petersburg
says that forty-fve parishes of the
Roman Catholic Bishopric of Siedletz,
Poland, containing $4,000 Inhabitants,
with the whole of their clergy, have
joined the Greek Orthodox Church.
The public reception was presided
over by the: Archbishop of Warsaw.
"A druggist in Lewiston, Maine,
states that he has,no doubt, from in
formation at his command, that more
than one ton Of snuff is annually con
sul'med in that city in ;. dipping, q
practice which has come IN vogue
among some Of the people within a
few years. These snuff chewers are
mostly women: 'T
ID. ia rayts IL ps.t E.. y ' &,,yS,.z "a sas:Ltl
i Mr.. Passmore,' Of Pennsylvania,
says he prepared for market twenty.
FIVE punches of common srhubarb,, tby
stripping. the leaves from the stalks.
The leaves were thrown to nine Hogs.
Five Of the hogs died with all the
symptoms Of poison. The other four
were, sick for some days, but + recovy-
cred. 4a7 II 2a' ~. .rs@s .,sa,is - 41se'
AZ ~. - ~ !.
Friday 3 morning the body 81
Barney Carey, who had been frozen
to death, was found near Lansing,
Iowa Supposed to have been drunk.
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