The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

to leave it again. And he did not
For forty nine years he lay, like an
invalid or an imbecile, on the couch
from which he was finally borne to
his grave. During all that long,
dreary term he never spoke with
q human being; nor were the
windows of his room once opened
for the last thirty-eight years Of
his life. His legs gradually con-
tracted until they were bent as if
in the attitude of prayer. He
never had an illness: his appetite
was unfailing, and when he died, 1t
the age of 70, his flesh was firm,
fair and unwrinkled, and his weight
was II stone. He was adverse to
being seen, and, if any one intruded
upon his solitude, except his niece,
he instantly concealed himself I'M
der the bedclothes.
It takes the Irish to wake" the
dead.
A clear case-An empty dry goods
box.
Good place for spirit-rappers-
Knoxville.
Criminals should come to halt or
halter.
Drains on the public purse need re-
trenching.
Living on excitement is very ex-
rensive living.
The stamp of civilization-The
postage stamp.
A Paris paper says: violence is
better than chloroform."
1t is enough for one thing at time
to happen, especially twins. -
Many opinions go for nothing-it
costs nothing to lex press them
There is nothing more depressing to
. thermometer than cold weather.
The New York World wants to
know if man with cough is not
hackman?
1t is better to be alone in the world
than to bring up boy to play on the
ACCORDION. -
1t is very cold weather, and yet
lovers do not see the sense of hugging
q stove.-B'klyn Argus.
A girl baby in Moore county, Tenn,
has a double tongue; but we don't
know that that's news. 81
A book has been published called
Half Hours with Insects" The au-
thor was not regular boarder.
Men who travel barefooted around
a newly carpeted bed room often find
themselves on the wrong tack.
There is nothing more hazardous
than to be bothering an irritable wo-
man with foolish questions on wash
day.
"Too thin" has become obsolete.
"Not sufficiently materialized" is the
latest form in which this idea is cloth
ed.
The foremen fthe Cincinnati brew
cries get about $4,000 per annum,
which is more than circuit judge
gets.
A man may be properly said to have
been drinking like fish when he finds
that he has taken enough to make his
head swim.
Now we know what makes it is
cold. Elder Lutz, of New Haven. so
on Hell Closed for Re-
pairs. Boston Post.
When a St. Louis man loses $50 on
the street he offers $45 reward for it.
He knows what st. Louis human ma
ture is.-Detroit Free Press
Never trust with secret a married
man who loves his wife, for he will |
tell her, and she will tell her sister,
and her sister will tell everybody.
A Michigan man with a large fami-
~ has been an emigrant ffty-four |
times. and has just sent to Texas for
a pamphlet about the resources of |
that State.
A Cincinnati woman burned her
Sunday suit because he |
would not put on a buffalo robe and
crawl around the back yard and play |
Santa Claus.
The obituary notice of q much re-
spected lady concludes width her
life she was q pattern worthy to be
followed; and her deatll-oh, how
10 ner 1r1enCs.
We suspect that what most grieved
the young lady who represented Katie
King in Philadelphia was the fact
that she was popularity supposed to be
more than 200 years Old
Why are sheep the least moral of
ANIMALS? Because they gsmbol in
their youth, spend much of their time
on the turf, many of them are black
legs, and they all get feeced at last.
There's where man has the advan-
tage. He can undress in a cold room
and have his bed warm before . wo-
man has got her hair pins out and her
shoes untied.-Detroit Free Press.
A genteel farmer in Massachusetts,,
\ retired Bostonian, didn't know how
TO take q wagon wheel of to grease
the axle. and so he bored holes
through the hub and poured in the
crease.
Make you a coat, sir?" said sus-
picious tailor to suspected customer.
oh, yes, sir. with the greatest pleas
ire" There, Just stand in that po-
'ition, please, and look right upon
hat notice while l take your measure"
Customer reads the notice: Terms
ASH"
Recently the local paper at Grass
Valley said: The prettiest gi1l in
}raes Valley doesn't carry herself
traight enough when promenading."
! or . week after all the Grass Valley
irls stalked about like so many bean
,oles; and every girl said. That hor-
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