, 1875-03-20
CURRENT ITEMS.
WHAT is slosh. It's snow matter

WHAT is slOsh: It's snow matter.
4 TENNESSEE bridegroom of seven
teen presented his bride, aged thirteen
with $780, 900 as marriage gift the other
day.
CAMEI.s and dromedarieS are becoming
plentiful in Nevada, and in some places
are supplanting horses, mules and oxen
as beasts of burden.
AT a recent masquerade ball in Chi
cagO one of the city papers says there
were enough Nights" and Mornings
to make a new month in the calendar.
4 NEWSPAPER warmed and placed in.
side the waistcoat will keep cut cold far
better than large quantity of clothing,
Now is the time 10 subscribe.-ROBle Ssa-
/ tiRel.
Mrs. MARY LEFEvRE said in her
lecture in Washington that mans iuhu
manity 10 man cannot compare in sever
| ity TO woman's "inhuwomanity' 10
woman
A VIRGINIA lady, Mrs. McGruder,
| claims to have q feather bed ninety-eight
years old, and upon which three of her
husbands have died. Its not strange
that they died
THE latest collars and cuffs in cOl1Ts
are made of solid blue, pink, lavender,
brown and other shades The collars
are high, with tlaring corners, and the
| cuffs flare 10 mach
IT is such an uncommon thing 10 have
| good order in q Texas court that recent
| ly Judge Hare, of Dallas, published Il
card thanking the people for their quiet
and orderly behavior.
IT is declared by authority that braids
| OF all klnds-IlerCules, Titan and the
rest-will be much used on spring cos
! tunes; the braid in all cases matching
the color of the material.
SINCE the complete success Of the sui
eide who jumped from the dome of the
! Capitol at Washington st. Louis is less
loud in her praise of the new bridge a5
point for suiCideS.-Niludukes Sentinel
A PoUGHKEEPsIE parent lately in-
duCed a Croupy yOungSter to make quite
hearty meal of buckwheat cakes and
maple m0lasses," but the latter proved
70 be nice sirup Of squills. The boy
SAID he thought something aiied the mo-
laSscs the very minute his father told
him to eat all he wanted.
Mr.. STURTEYANT was arrested in Nil
ford, Mass, for starving horse to death.
Upon the trial it was shown that he had
memory so defective as 10 nearly
amount to mental incapacity, and had
actually forgotten that he owned Il horse.
The animal was a valuable one, which
fact in itself was strong proof of the
theory of defense, and he WaS acquitted
The poor brutes have suffered worse
than mankind during the severely cold
weather. The Rochester Democrat says
it will cost the New York Central Rail
road $4,000 10 pay for the forty car
loads Of cattle frozen and injured by the
cold near that city lately, and ihat a SIM
liar case of the wholesale ireeZingof cat
lie 10 death also occurred Uu ;hC EriC
Road near HOrncllsville. The Democrat
calls upon Mr. Bergh 10 investigate these
cases and punish the inhuman culprits
responsible for this terrible suffering.
! MIsTRUsTING NUsBAND-W ednesday
evening Detroit business man saw his
wife walking alone on the avenue. Not
being accustomed to see her on the
street in the evening lie concluded tC
follow her. She stepped into grocery
store on Congress street east 10 make a
purchase, and be took position on the
opposite side of the street until she came
out, when he TeCrOssed and followed
closely behind her As soon IS She dis
covered that q man was following her
she hastened her steps, not even stop
ping TO see who II was When she ar
rived al her gate she saw That his face
was mutlled, and rushing up the front
steps she raug the bell. Just then po-
liceman came along 10 whom she pointed
out the prowler He at once arrested
him, and upon being confronted with the
wife she recognized him by his scarf and
called him bv name. The policeman
was dumbfounded. but after an eyplana-
ton on the part of the husband and a
handsome apology TO his wife the officer
concluded to let him 90 and he sneahed
peniiently into the house.-Detroit Free
Press.
Mr.. HARRY BECKETT, the COmeiadn,
has fund OF humOr upon which he
draws in every emergency. In the house
where Mr. Beckett resides melancholy
looking individual occupies room just
above him, and for a week past has an
noyed the comedian by walking the floor
allnight When Beckett could not stand
it any longer he jumped out Of bed about
daylight one morning, mounted the stairs
and pounded upon the door Of the peram-
bulating nuisance. 1t was opened, and
a sepuichral voice cut its way through
the early gray of morning with the in
quiry: "Well, my friend, what's the
matter?" See here. old man. said
Beckett, "you are keeping me awake
walking the floor here night after night
for weeks ! can't stand It any longer.
What's the row." After a slight pause
the fellow drew a sigh and said: /" Ny
friend, am the most miserable OF men,
I owe a man $500 and can't pay IT.
8 Oh" exclaimed Beckett, Is that aliz
Why don't you let him do the walking,
then. you've got the best of him" \
new light broke upon the mind of the
unhappy debtor and there was no more
floor-walking after that night
Hos1 Remarkable FSc1DP From