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

9.7#
The Toledo Blade says: ct. T. 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 CHANGERS are
discomposed 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, s'wear 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 17tn, to carry the
stars and stripes unfurled to Toronto. :
At spelling match in Detroit the
other day the word 'molten'' was given
to 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 seem.
ing favorite 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
betting on three-card monte and losing
} 800 Of festival money. One of the dea
cons remarked: 1--WE is all human, an
de game is very exciting.
. Eli G. Grimes, who killed Col. William
: Parker White, aud who has sworn that
q ex-Congressrnan Bowen, Of South Caro-.
lima, hired him to do the murder, is held
$ 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,
: and is working it, and negotiations are
pending for the sale Of the rest.
. William Lorell, of New York, proposes
Ito trot American Girl against Occident,
e race of mile heats, best three in five, in
# harness, for $4,000 or $1,000 side, in
r Philadelphia, over Point Breeze Park, or
n in New York, over either Fleetwood or
t. Prospect Park; good day and 1ood
T. track; the race to take place any
r from date to 1st Of June. 1875.
IS A Nevada woman recently =
:, down seven burglars one after
70 Her husband watched her from td
D. Of the stairs, and felt so brimful
q | ~ o%,,l1,.sk mol nfF
eT ierked his eighty ear-old boy ouf
9, and .swhaled'' him soundly tor
~ ting up and helping his mothe1 vt NJ
he Notorious as reader of hi
nj reverend gentleman, in bkntefin
he son, one Of his Pensioners. on the SUPP
ne rior stability Of ancient compared with
w modern buildings, put the question, Can
Is. yoy tell me when the masons lost the art
er Of tempering their mortar!' i've
= heard" said the man, with sly leer
- "that it was about the time that minis.
no tiers lost the gift ofsxtempore preaching.
,e. sPhabe Couzns doesn't dress like her
he brothers at the bar" says the Chicago
ey Tribune, by way Of commencing an item.
70. ssThat undoubtedly true," says the
ais Brooklyn Union ''she dresses by put
i've ting on her clothes over her head, while
ne. they don't, and, what's more, they cant
for But what business is it Of the 7ribune'a
ZEN anyhow!"
rst His wife was Every sound-far more g
IL than most women" A healthy wife u
aat indeed one Of Gods blessings. Physica
wo vigor in women always carries heap Q
ess moral force. When . strong. firmly
WIS knit, sinewy married female gets up, ant
Of in an unmistakable tone Of voice, ejacu
be. lates "James!" James doesn't have Il
t 20 fooling around among his neighbors =
ose find out what she means.
YES sThe Rev. Mr.. Glendening, Of unhapp.
or notoriety," says the New York Herald 9
I'm the Sd, .spreached yesterday in the churcl
At Jersey City from which he was SUI
ere pended BY the Presbytery. The death q
but Door Mary Pomeroy did not seem to q
has feet the reverend gentleman, though som
n trouble was feared from the indignatio
) to Of the citizens. He is now in open def
au, ancc to his church q well Is to the con
m muni.y."
iot A man in Nebraska, who dropped tw
ny, cents worth Of mail matter IN the po.
;sl office box, and had to pay SIX cents 70 :
len. it, wen. over and stood BY one Of u
ows windows, and said: May Hannib
Sne Hamlin, Of Maine, and Alexander Ran
mas sey, Of Minnesota, have the bilious coli
up the ague, the govt, the jaundice, corn
aing bunions. boils and the buckwheat scratc
lle, Is from this day noon for the next az
egs, years to come"
w sHair gettin' little thin, sir "a
~ the barber. "Young man." said Jol
IN !. -. !: Henry, looking down upon him from Il
- ., height Of solemn experience; 'syoul
eed, m.n, aI,..as = .h.t .i.n...h.i..s nm
to s..:. m:.A go a.
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