The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-11-16

MhSCELLANEOUSs
n Pope's houssfs1e consists Of
537 men.
Moody speaks 220 words . minute.
add every word weighs ton
President Grant weighs 1877 pounds.
Another bid for third term.
Patriotic fruits. A Colorado man has
sent some apples to the President in a
red, white and blue barrel.
Rare bits Of coloring from tho old
masters-black and blue spots on =
shhoolboy's back. r
Miss Della Cards figured In recent
church fair at Milwaukee, and she is
spoken Of as trump, too.
| The eyesight of q Massachusetts, man
has been recovered by the falling of q
heavy weight on his head.
The Chinese Empire contemplates
sending full embassy to the United
States aud European countries this
winter.
II is said that half the children in
American schools have injured eye
sight from misappliance of sanitary
rules.
Gerald Massey is said to be engaged
upon "the crowning literary work Of
his life" Making hat out Of an old
newspaper.
The Centennial buildings will be OPP
en- on Sundays during the exhibition
season., General Hawiey SO announ-
ces. + a..
"Are We TO have an intestine war 2"
inquiries the editor OF the Louisiana
Republican. He is, unless he stops
eating fire.
| Ayoung man named Willard 0Bur-
nell, OF Winona, Mimi, was killed
while duck hunting, by the accidental
discharge OF gun.
A tight-rope walker is to give an -ex-
hibition for the benefit of the Young
! Mems Christian Association of Indian
apolis, and under its auspices.
d See here. Mr.. Huaser crawled into
asewer in Dubuque while drunk, and
was smothered in the mud. Would you
call that whiskycide, sewercide or muir
der.
There were eight hundred colored
voters in Pittsburg at the recent elect
ion, of whom only nine voted thu Dem
ocratic ticket.
Mr.. Moody is not slow to acknowl-
edge that the average. Brooklyn Satan
il as hard chap TO cast out of man
as you will find the world over.
All the heroines are not dead yet.
An Auburn lady, in whose hands ker-
osene lamp suddenly blazed up. sat
down on il.
"Tell me, Mary, How to Woo Thee, y
is the title of n recent ditty. Give her
pair of diamond earrings aud q tor
toise shell comb for her back hair.
The Hartford Comm Courant, Just
/ celebrating its one hundred and twelfth
I anniversary, generously informs its or
/ iginal subscribers that they are entit-
led to one years subscription free.
| An article that is going the rounds
endeavors to explain "how alchol en-
ters the system" Every one knows
that il enters by the direct line-as the
swallows homeward glide.
4 Kate Field says the English critics
killed Robertson. II that is true. tho
critics over there are remarkably like
the critics here; they havo about 81
000. 900 times more effect upon an auth
or than upon the public.
\ The libel suits of Henry c. Bowen
against the Brooklyn Eagle, its editor,
I Thomas kinsella, and James McDer-
mott, reporter, claiming damages ag
gregating $3.50, 900, has been set down
for trial, Nov. 8.
There are now in the Tombs prison,
New York, five murderers, all of whom
will suffer the extreme penalty of the
law within the next three weeks. STAN
derman aud Dallas hang on Dec 10,
and Weston, Ellis, and Thompson on
the 7th.
There is no marriage law in Utah
territory. For appearance sake, coup
les stand up and say: "We'spsrdners."
Divorce ia accomplished by publicly
announcing, This partnership is
busted" The custom fits the people
like an old glove.
] A child of Samuel Jones, near Bow
I ersville, Ohio, died day or so age
from eating bread in which pulverized
, glass had gotten by mistake in mixing
dough. The mother is likely to die
| from the Same cause. The children
: had poured the glass into q cup OF wa.
: ter, aud IL vas used in mixing the
J bread. nfrv rt a.
, The exercise of courtesy was carried
, TO the very finest point in Judge Sher
bourne's court in Louisiana the othel
day. The Grand Jury indicted Judge
, Sherbourne Cbefore himselfD for mur
der; Judge Beattle succeeded him or
, the bench. A case coming mp in which
Beattle had a personal interest, he re
leased Sherbourne from Jail lone
enough to try it. aud then shut him NJ
, again.
The Santa Rosa, Cal Democrat give
!, the production Of dairy farm Of I ,00
acres in that country, for the year jus
ended. II shows that the receipts fo
; cheese, butter. hogs and hay were
$40, $50, and the expenses, including
the interest on the capital invested, am
ounting TO 8. 200, were but 90, ,130.
To collect the internal revenue, fo
: the year just ended, cost about two pc
, cent. of the amount collected. TIL,
/ cost was Two Millions, One Hundre,
4 and Eighty five Thousand dollars; tn
: amount collected was One Hundred an
; Three Millions OF dollars.
4 Five IL the assassins who murlere
3 the Methodist missionary, at Acapulco
Z Mexico. several years ago, have finall
q been executed. They died after cor
4 Tossing their crime. They cxecutio
!, took place October 16, after q long trii
n and the use OF every device to save tn
4 murderers. who we're instigated TO th
9 act by Jesuit priests. af.l
. A report received by the Secretary Q
;. War from Assistant Surgeon v. b
- Hubbard Medical Director OF the De
y partment OF the Gulf, dated New Oh
- leans, October 23d, announces that th
= progress of yellow fever in that city u
Z 10 the 23d. according TO iuformatio,