The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-05-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

600 to DR. Halls new Fifth Avenue
| Church.
The Russian army numbers g.
100000 men and includes 100000
Cossacks.
Mrs. Senator Sumner is reported
to be about to marry one Jones,
clerk in the New York Custom House
"A second indictment for murder
has been found against P. P. Winter
mute for killing Gen. McCook, at
Yankton.
"A fund Of $4,000 has been rails
ed by the women of Richmond for the
erection Of monument to Gen. Rob
ert f. Lee
A Columbus (Tenn.) druggist
spelled "rllapsody' "wrap-soda,"
and took his seat with an air of per-
sonal injury.
"A man away down East in Bruins
wick, Me-, was seen planting early
potatoes April 20; but then be owned
a pickax.
Edwin Booth refused an offer Of
$4,000 for four weeks, at the Cali
fornia theatre. He preferred taking
half the receipts.
The tree planters Of the First
Division Of the St. Paul & Pacific
railroad, "a men, planted one hun
dred thousand white willow and lom-
hardy cuttings near Hancock, Arbor
Day.
Nevada brides wont stand much
foolishness at a wedding. Recently
one of them, while going up the aisle
of the church, stopped short and
kicked all the skin off the shins of a
groomsman who trod on her trail.
"A correspondent in Texas, a
State purely Democratic, writes to the
Topeka Commonwealth that political
progress is stopped in that State,
Stree schools crushed out, and "more
penitentiaries ordered"
Every man who mails package
subject to the new postage rates drops
it into the hole with the wish that
Senator Hamlin and ex-senator
Ramsey had to sit for two hours on a
hot shovel.-Detroit Free Press.
Sixteen thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine persons were bani=hed
from Russia to Siberia between May
and October last 1880 women and
children over 10 years Of age, with
1869 young children, voluntarily
accompanied the exiles.'
An underground church is being
constructed in London to accommo-
date the crowded fishing population
in one quarter Of the city. 1t is built
underground because land is so dea~,
. and will cost $4,000. The floor is
thirty feet below the street level.
One day last week a smiling in
fant toddled away from its home near
, Viola, Iowa, on the Dubuque South
western Railroad, and lay down be-
tween the rails to sleep. A few mo-
ments later train came along and the
engineer, seeing he could not stop in
time, pulled her wide open and bang
ed the whole train over the sleeping
cherub before it woke, and never
touched hair Of it. Had the little
one attempted to rise it would have
been killed instantly
Retail cigar dealers are unhappy
over the new cigar box, which has
perforated coupons Oh the inside edge,
corresponding with the number of ci-
s gars in the box. The coupons are
furnished by the government in place
Of stamps, and when a cigar is sold
coupon has to be destroyed before the
purchaser. Before long they will
have each cocktail, manufactured for
married men, announced to their
wives by telegraphic bell-punch.
The world moves.
f KEPT HIS PROMISE six
r we ks ago the Standard contained an
item to the effect that Mr.. NORM, OF
l this place, designed to put out 50,-
900 trees and cuttings on his farms
this spring. He has kept his prom
ise. The work is accomplished. The
cuttings cover space Of twenty-three
;. acres, and he has just let the con-
e tract to put out five acres more, max
: ing twenty-eight acres in all. While
y all farmers, perhaps, have not the
e means to branch out as extensively as
| Mr.. NJ. has, still there is no reason
Y why every cultivated quarter section
l Of land may not have on it a good,
: respectable sized grove.-Albert Lea
t Standard.
, Here is short story of Mr.. Lin
coins: "After the Wednesday might
services at a country meeting house
the minister urged the members pres
ent to subscribe literally toward
y erecting a lightning-rod on their new
Il church building, saying: Surely you
S are willing to lend to the Lord Is
He not the owner of the cattle on
thousand hills? Will He not repay ?
etc. When rich old farmer got up,
y and speaking slowly through his nose,
}. said y ou say the Lord is owner of
+ the cattle on thousand hills, do yc