The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05
THE PALLADIUM.
WEDNESDAY. MAY s, 1875.


bread.
Improving ones time-mending
the clock.
The home circle walking around
with the baby at night.
What is better than a promising
young mani A paying one.
When . man can't find anything
to do he has lived long enough.
Why is the sun like q good loaf
Because it's light when it rises.
The greater the knowledge, the
greater the doubt Goethe.
Pride has no other glass to show
in but pride.-Shakspeare.
The yearly military crop in
Europe foots up 2, 284, 439 boys.
I prefer the wisdom of the un-
learned to the folly of the loqua
cious.-Cicero.
Do not speak of your happiness
to man less fortunate than your
self-Plutarch.
Happiness is like the statue of
Isis, whose veil no mortal ever rails
ed.-Lander.
A Prize is offered for the latest
woman at forthcoming agricul
tural fair in Minnesota
Question for actors-can an ac~
tor be said to work when he
plays!
In what ship has the greatest
number of people been wrecked
Courtship.
The man who doesn't hang out
his single and advertise dies and
leaves no sign.
Those who rise to eminence sud
denly are very apt to come back on
the next train.
When fortune wants to let fell
low-being fall the hardest, she lifts
him up the highest.
A liar begins with making false
hood appear like truth, and ends
with making truth itself appear like
falsehood.
Beware of inquisitive persons; a
wonderful curiosity to know all is
accompanied with as great desire
to tell it again.
Elk President Theirs attained his
seventy-ninth year on the 18th
inst. The occasion was celebrated
by a dinner and private reunion.
Marble top tables are unhealthy,
according to the Herald of Health,
but it does not state their dis
ease.
Boss Tweed doesn't think the
treatment at the penitentiary is
very benign. On the contrary he
thinks it is 7x9.
Mrs. Smith says she celebrates
her wooden wedding every day.
She married stick, and that's how
it is.
Brigham Young is seventy-four,
but can preach for two hours with
the serenest Inconsistencies that
twenty-five infants are yelling in
the tabernacle.
Kate Field puts the amount an
nually paid into New York theaters
by the amusement thirsty public at
100000. Here is Field for
speculation.
MIR. John w. Garrett, President
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway
has promised $4,000 to aid in
public improvements in the neigh
borhood of Washington's monu-
ment in Baltimore.
Susan B. Anthony says that
there are six hundred thousand
professional drunkards in the
United States, and that one wo-
man in seventeen is married to
such an artist.
It is estimated that at least half
a million strangers will join the ma
tives in Boston on the 18th of June
A popcorn manufacturer who has
seen Colonel Sellers is making
four million corn balls for the
event.
The South has been sufficiently
subjugated It's worst enemy will ex-
tend his sympathy, since it has SUBJ
mitted without a murmur to an In
diana editorial excursion!
The Rock County Recorder
heads it's funny paragraph column
in this way: "Written with Scis-
sors.'' Those witticisms ought
certainly to be sharp.
A young lady while out walking
heard, for the first time, her
mothers intention to morry again,
and she was obliged to sit right
down and cry about it. She could
not go step father
A colored congregation have de
cided to forgive their clergyman
for betting on three card monte
and losing 800 of festival money.
One of the deacons remarked: 1--WE
Is all human, and de game is VERY
exciting.
A clergyman in one of our East
ern cities was met by a seedy
looking man with flask of whisky
in his pocket, who inquired, "Sir,
is this the nearest road to the aims
house, mo, sir" replied the cler-
pyman, pointing to the bottle, ''but