, 1875-02-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

costly Improvements made by the leading
railway companies within the past two
years Is that broken rails are now com.
paratively rare
4 New HAMrsHIRE woman. when dy-
ing, made her husband swear. on the
Bible, he'd never marry woman with a
sharp nose. And yet sharp nose Is not
half So bad as a sharp tongue.
The famous pretty girls of Providence
must beware. The Providence Joururl
says the amount of beauty and bank
stock which has gone out Of this town
through marriage is enormous
THE clash in the fashionable world lust
now h~t~vSs~ ,LA .r;rlS with nrrttv feet
who want TO wear short dresses anu
those with ugly feet who insist upon
having long ones is described by the
fashionable dressmakers as something
fearful.
IT is a curious fact that sewinE-ma-
chimes can be purchased in Europe and
brought to this country for Just onc-halt
of the price they cost here, including all
costs of freight, duty, etc, the reason
being that they have no protection there,
anyone being allowed to make them
! 4 WESTERN Pofe,1,uajli,s, who has
raised two families, has disc,vcrcd that
! chi drrn grow far more between January
/ and July than in the other half Of the
year His theory Is thrt the growth of
humanity Is governed by The same laws
which prevail over the vegetable king
dom.
If boy is walking along the street
accompanied by big dog, and u boy
with Il small dog comes out of a side
street, it is just as impossible for that
big boy To resist urging his dog 10 chew
the small canine up aS il is for a boy C."
pass sugar box and not feel of the
Jumps.
IT has been suggested that among the
supplies for the Polar expedition should
be included few pounds of mustard and
creSS-Seed, for the purpose OF obtaining
green salad. These seeds will grow II
sprinkled in a damp piece of flannel or
bed of moist ashes, and the plants have
long been esteemed for their anti SCOr
butte properties.
\ RECENT California letter says
" Flowers are blooming in all their varic-
gated beauty in the gardens on every
hand; all kinds of green sauce abound In
the marketpiaces. Strawberries crown
in the open air are selling at twenty-five
cents per quart The hills and wales are
covered with grass, aiiording the most
lUXuriant feed for stock"
THEY gave Massachusetts, woman a
narcotic, and she did not wake until
after the time in which her dream had
Ii I.tl
Though she is now safe and thankful
there is away down in her heart of hearts
Just a speck of disappointment that the
dream was not fulfilled; it would have
UTCaVVu a--viI "a so. 's1sE"-l7 riiU iivfIi'sia-
A LLGHT-BoAT at New London, Conn,
having taken to leaking from some myS-
teriOuS cause investigation was made,
which resulted in the discovery that the
mischief was caused by Il hammer which
had been left in the bottom undcr the
floor when the boat was built thirteen
wears ago Moved with the continual
motion of the vessel it had worn through
planlSng and keel to the copper plating,
which alone had kept the vessel from
sinking
THI Dallas TEX Commecjd says in a
of our city, and one of the finest writers
in the State, lost her husband some sin
wears ago: she knew his life was insured
for $40 900, but could not find III, papers
and did not know in what company it
was. She went to New Orleans and
spent the winter there in tryin. 10 ferret
ont the matter, but was at length com
PEELED 10 give il up in despair. She was
engaged Yesterday in writing Il New
Years address for the Commercial and
was looking over some old papers tor an
address she had written some years
previous when she came across the lost
paper"
THE police records Of New York last
August contained a ease which deserves
10 he put among medical records. \ man
fell from the roof OF his house, where he
had been in the habit of sleeping on
summer nights He was found by a
policeman, taken 10 a statiun-house and
pronounced drunk by the surgeon He
walked home, and appears to have had 4
ioIly dav, for he danced to the tune Of
The" Mulligan Guards" for the amUsc-
ment of his friends But the following
morning he died, and poSt-mortem a
animation discovered the fact that IN his
fall his skull had been fractured, several
ribs broken, his spleen ruptured, and
large quantities OF blood had accumu-
lated in the abdominal cavity. Instances
of such persistent vitality are rare.
\ BUTCHER o. this city, who is the IN
ventor of a new kind Of sausage con
tanning a vast amount of nUtrimeDt in a
greatly condensed form, named the same
the " Multum in ParvO sausage y few
days since he employed painter 10
paint him a sign bearing the above name,
10 be erected in front OF hIs market
Yesterday the sign was completed ana
brought to the hatcher Tor his accept
ance Judge Of the surprise and lndIgna-
ton of the inventive butcher when he
fully realized tnat the great namlng YER
million and blue letters on the sign before
him read. Mutton in P0TkG sausage
Tho nrinter ewOre that that Was what
the butcher told him TO put on the sign,
and said that he thought IL a very aP-
proDriatc name When the painter said
this the butcher seized CicayrT, and u
took three men To hold him, 50 desirous
was he Of splitting open the head OF the
poor, trembling artist tTgtDt1 cay
lNec4 Enterprise
The fact Is well known that when TWO
neighboring buildings are Illuminated
with gas derived from the same source
it frequently happens that the extinction
of the lights in one building causes tine
pressure Of gas in the other 10 become
greatly increased, and sometimes 10 re
suit in accident As an alarm 10 give
warning of this rpressure a French
inventor proposes a bi-sulphaie OF mer-
curry battery, in which the liquid IS com
municated with the gas by means OF a
siphon, so that the pressure Of the gas,
in varying. raises OF lowers its level IL
it's pressure Is above a certain fixed
limit the liquid is raised so as to come