The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-20
RAKINGS AND SCRAPINGS.


The Toledo Blade says: st. 7. stands
on. the ragged edge Of an enormous abyss.
Terrapin Tower, we mean, which has
been rebuilt at Niagara Falls.
Potato bugs have advanced as far East
as Akron. Ohio, where the grangers are
d;scomposed at finding them already
waiting for the potatoes to grow.
4. newspaper-biographer, trying to say
his subject twas hardly able to bear the
demise of his wife" was made by the IN
exorable printer to say, swear the chem
Use of his wife.
Unless Milwaukee girl, says an envi-
Gus Chicago scribe, can take brick in
each hand and make eight feet and four
inches at standing jump, she rarely
gets admitted into the best society.
Sergeant Bates don't swear; we only
wish to mention the fact that he is alive,
and that he proposes to start from Wind
sor, Ontario, on May 17th, to carry the
stars and stripes unfurled to Toronto.
At spelling match in Detroit the
other day the word molten was given
to a young woman and she spelled it
.sM.o-u.l-t-o-n.' That shows what she
has been reading for the past few months.
!, Poor James W. Nye, once Governor Of
Nevada and then Senator Of the United
States, genial and witty, and then a seem.
ING fayorite Of fortune, is now an inmate
of an insane asylum, aud classed among
the incurables.
} A colored congregation in Dayton have
decided to forgive their clergyman for
t betting on three-card monte and losing
, 800 Of festival money. One of the dea
cons remarked: 1--WE is all human, an
e de game is very exciting.
( Eli G. Grimes, who killed Col. William
Parker White, aud who has sworn that
a ex.Congressman Bowen, of South Caro-
lima, hired him to do the murder, is held
s as witness, in Columbia, against Bowen,
who is to be tried for the murder.
: There is great excitement at Exeter, N.
: H., and vicinity, over the discovery of
rich silver and lead deposits on the farm
!, of Asa Brown, at Raymond. A party at
= Portsmouth has bought part of the farm,
y and is working it, and negotiations are
pending for the sale Of the rest.
a William Lorell, of New York, proposes
to trot American Girl against Occident,
e race of mile heats, best three in five, IN
IF harness, for $500 or $4,000 side, in
n Philadelphia, over Point Breeze Park, or
in in New York. over either Fleetwood or
t. Prospect Park; good day and good
r. track; the race to take place any
r from date to 1st Of June, 1875.
es A Nevada woman recently kpX
r, down seven burglars one after a11tE.
10 Her husband watched her from the top
e. of the stairs, and felt so brimful of battle
e" that he couldn't cool of until T. had
81 ierked his eighty ear-old boy out a -
e, and ,sswhaled'' him soundly forapatsgst.
e. ting up and helping his motheH, Vii il
he Notorious as reader Of his1DFwees.A
nj reverend gent! eman, in bAnterfng = mn
he son, one Of his Pensioners, on the supe'
lls rior stability OF ancient compared with
W. modern buildings, put the question. Can
1s. yoy tell me when the masons lost the art
er of tempering their mortar!' give
70 heard,' said the man, with sly leer
~ "that it was about the time that minis.
no ters lost the gift ofextempore preaching.
ae. "Phnbe GOWNS doesn't dress like bel
he brothers at the bar" says the Chicago
ey Tribune, by way Of commencing an item
70. 'sThat undoubtedly true,' says tn
his Brooklyn Union ''she dresses by put
i've ting on her clothes over her head, Will
ne, they don't, and, what's more, they can't
for But what business is it Of the Tribune
len anyhow
rst His wife was "very sound-far more s.
la than most women A healthy wife j
nat indeed one Of Gods blessings. Physica
,wo vigor in women always carries heap 9
ess moral force. When strong. firml
,ws knit, sinewy married female gets up, an
Of in an unmistakable tone Of voice, exact
be- lates "James! James doesn't have
It go fooling around among his neighbors
ose find out what she means.
YES aThe Rev. Mr.. Glendening, of unhapp
or notoriety," says the New York Herald I
en- the Sd, 'spreached yesterday in the churc
at Jersey City from which he was SUI
ere pended by the Presbytery. The death
but poor Mary Pomeroy did not seem to
has feet the reverend gentleman, though SON
en- !; trouble was feared from the indignatie
5 to OF the citizens. He is now in open del
'au, ancc to his church as well as to the cor
IN muni.y.'
iot A man in Nebraska. who dropped tv
aio, cents worth Of mail matter in the po
IS II Office box, and had to pay six cents to
len it. wen. over and stood by one Of 4
ows windows, and said: MAY Hannib
one Hamlin, of Maine, and Alexander Raj
mas sey, Of Minnesota, have the bilious col
up the ague, the govt, the jaundice, corr
ang bunions. boils and the buckwheat scratc
he,) es from this day noon for the next IF
ssS, years to come.
s s.ys Hair gettin' little thin, SIR e
la. ,. the barber. young man." said Jo
y oh =. Henry, looking down upon him from t
~, height Of solemn experience; ''you
"a man, when you are married you v
ee :. never allude. in that thoughtless manr
:. - to domestic affections No; don't up
I : ogize. My feelings are bluntcd. =
,.us is there not some mysterious ungueni
: e some soft, seductive compound Il
.nd makes the hair more slippery to
h.rd grasp!"