, 1875-02-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

I
avoid Annie Payne-ful results
Dir. WILLIAM T. RoSSETER, Of Bridge
port, Conn, has Just died frum the cf-
tcciS of inhaling ether which he was ad-
miniStering 10 q patient four weeks ago.
II produced symptoms similar TO those of
. typhoid fever and diphtheria.
One of the most ingenious advertise
mentS issued at San Francisco during last
summer was the following:
Ice, fee. ice;
n you AM il purr and
1t reasonable pr ice.
Follow no new Gev
,iUt -C-G So ns N II
For have he largest and best stock ever put up
. Iu this city.
\ FASHIuNABIE author took novel to
the Paris fTdHcatN for publication. and
was cordially received. Calling again
his manuscript was coldly returned 10
him. The editor told him 10 look at
/ page thirty-SeveD, which he did, and
/ found the following. Here he was
seized with an irresistible tendency Ia
Z Slumhcr. Was It surprising: He had
I iust pcruSed two columns OF the
/ FrHrItS-'
/ \ REPORT comes from London that
MT. DiSTaCli Is 10 De- married again AS
( the venerable statesman Is within twelve
months of his seventeen birthday II
would be remarkable if in his old age
and iHhTmiiicS he should seek another
cunSOTt Ii has always been supposed.
too, that his CNTTCmc affection for the
cSJimahlc lady whom he married when
he WAS over sixty, and who died two
Z
rimonial alliance on his part.
TALMAGE again: A woman who
gives herself up to the inGiscriminate
reading of novels will he untitled Tor the
duties of Il wife, mother, sister, daugh-
ter There she Is, hair dishcVelcd, cOun-
lenance vacant, checks pale, hands
trembling. bursting into tears at mid
night over the fate of some unfortunate
lover. In the daytime, when she ought
to hc busy, She StareS 10y the half-hour
al nothing, biting her tingcr-nailS into
the quick"
\ EACHELoE in Omaha, Neb, who WAS
the fortunate pOSscSsOT of house ready
furnished, recently effected most ad-
yaniagcOuS arrangement He found
pleaSan, family anxious totakc h0ardcrS,
him with board and part of the profits for
the rent This arrangement worked very
pleasantly for the bachelor until the other
morning, when he awoke and found the
family gone and himself with a house full
of hoarderS 10 provide for Al last ac-
counts he was trying 10 eXtricatc himself
from the dilemma.
IL Springfield, Mass, recently, a young
married woman became possessed with
the idea that her proper vocation WIS
that nf novelist 30 she secretly began
a thrilling story in which the hero WAS
10 be Stranglcd by his jealous wife Into
the murder scene she determined 10 pour
her whole soul, and in order 10 properly
describe il she went 10 the bedside of her
sleeping spouse and, placing her hands
about his neck, chokcd him into in>enSi-
hiiity lie knocked her down with a chair
rs soon rs ne revived, and the novclwcnt
into the stove
THERE recently died in the north of
France At the aye Of eighty-threc, miser
who lived alone, and whose hut, when
examined by the authorities after his
death. proved Il sort Of gold mine. His
pillow alone contained 10000 francs IN
gold pieces of the time of Louis Nv and
XVI. lie had taste for old pieces. He
had been robbed many times, and the
thieves were generally detected through
the antiquity of the money they stole.
The total Of the sums robbed from him
in his life. for which men have been con
victed and sentenced, reach 1000
francs.
ONLY the female spiders spin webs.
They own all Use real estate, and the
males have 10 live a vagabond life under
stones and in other obscure hiding places.
If they c,Hc about the house 50 often as
to bore the ruling sex they are merclless-
IN killed and eaten. The spiders skin IS
rs unyiclding a. the shells Of HOLSTERS
and crabs, and i shed from time to time
in the same way to accommodate the
animals growth. If you poke over the
rubbish in female spiders backyard
among her Cast-oH cOTscts You will ind
the Jackets of the males who have paid
for their sociality With their lives
trophies of her barbarism as truly as
scaIps show the savage nature Of the red
man.-Prof. Z. (. Nurse
THE annual report of the international
Executive Committee of Young Mems
Christian Associations reports the follow
ing list of Young Mems Association
buildings. with their valuation; New
York CITY, 500 coo; Philadelphia, Pa,
$3.50 900; Chicago, III. 81. 600: Boston,
Mass SI5OOOO. Cincinnati Ohio, $4,000;
San Francisco, Cal, SlO0,OGn; Montreal,
Can $50 900; Washington, d. {, 5000
900: Newark, y J., $4,000; Cleveland,
Ohio. 81. 900; Jersey City, y j., so OVp;
Toronto, Ont, $4,000: Indianapolis,
Ind. $4,000: Syracuse, y two chap
els 5000; Halifax, n :, S35,OOO;
Portland. Ne. chapel, $500; ST Johns,
y. T.. $40. 600; Dayton, Ohio, two chapelS,
& 800: Newburg. y. Y, 5000; POugh-
tcrpsic. y. Y, $4,000; Poughkccpsie,
y. i, chapel, - 800, Chelsea, Mass,
S3 600: Omaha. Ncb., 5000; New Bruns-
wick, \. j., $l5 900; Germantown, Pa,
SD 900; Aurora, IL, $1,000, Charles
town, F. +. l., $4,000
4 LADY in Beacon street, whose huS-
band has taken Up the idea "t The " dress
reform" with characteristic yigor, re
solved to make practical use ot the
theory Consequently, on the fond hus-
bands arrival and entrance INTO the little
library in which the lady was quietly
sitting, he gazed at her narrowly, then
coming up to her gently he said softly;
" Ny dearest, are you liz" Not at all,
answered the wife, calmly, Have you
been so to-day?" Never better in my
life" answered madam. Then why in
the world is your hair done up. or rather
down. in that oGtlandish fashion, and
why have you made such guy OF your
self. when YOU know the P.'s are coming
10 dinnerg" This, my dear, responded
the wife, still more calmly, and looking
innocently up into the exasperaied nus.
bands eyes, this, my own, IS the eSaft s
COPY Of the proposed dress reform, al
ter the latest fashion plates 1t Is s&io
- --..-lI5 r.tsr,TIed heaven on