, 1875-02-27
CURRENT ITEMS.


THERE is nothing more hazardou.
than 10 be bothering an irritable woman
with foolish questions on wash-day.
JOLLY times in Florida: The pro,
gramme of each dav is sleep, eat, fish ol
shoot, and then little more sleep and
eat
THE power of love receives fresh illus
tration in the case OF u Montreal girl who
sold her new bonnet so that her lover
might buy pair OF skates.
GOOD resolutions are an honor to every
heart that may form them. But thai
honor takes to Itself a new luster and
that heart is nObler still when these resO'
lutions are not bggken.
The paragrapheTs are sympathizing
with a Virginia man who has spent $40,
600 for mOrphia for his wife in the last
twenty wears. But think Of the quiet
nights that man has had.
BULLY for the Connecticut boarding
house keeper who splintcred herpudding
mixer over the head of a chap who
slandered her female boarders. He
won't dough it again
HENRY STANTON says: There is no
open door for the mOneyless man. PEI
contra, Dobb says that whenever he is
moneyleSs everybody seems disposed tC
show him the door, and ask him 10 STEP
out to boot.
WENDELL PHILLIPS can, by calling on
Mons. De La BaStie, gain some valuable
information. After six years Of expert
ment the Frenchman has solved the
problem of making malleable glass,
which can be beaten or bent like copper
and can be used for cooking utensils.
One lost art is therefore restored.
TRUTH" says sage, never gets its
votaries into tangles; it imprisOns no
man in the network of his own words"
Perhaps not. But if man told the
truth when asked where he gets his win
ter'S wood it might imprisOn him in
something worse than Il network of his
own words.
4 ST. LOUIS girl who received New
Years calls describes tie misery she suf-
fered because people would talk about
the weather. For twelve hours" she
saws, Il heard Over and over again the
seif-same platitudes, and before night |
felt like Signal Service Bureau, and
was 50 stuffed with weather that | was
sick"
If YOU should invest in q lottery, al
WAYS dream three nights in succession,
Immediately preceding the day of draw
ing, that yout number drew the capital
prize. \ Bridgeport man did this and
the very next day he saw an announce
ment in the paper that-the drawing had
been postponed for three mOnths.-NOr-
riStOlcH Herald.
BALTIMORE oysters were never better
than they were by the
hungry passengers of a snow bound train
on the Kansas Pacific Railroad lately
After being tWenty-fnur hours without a
" square meal it was dIscUveIod tnat
there was car on the train loaded with
Baltimore oysters bound to Denver. II
is needless to say that the freight was
shifted with great expedition.
THE champion dead-head has been
discovered in q legislator who, having
received free pass from q railroad com
psnv, and not having occasion to use 1t,
actually called IL tue Superintendent
office and asked they were willing to
give him the yalue OF the ticket in mon
ey?" We might believe this story If the
relator had mentioned that the legislator
the Superintendent that he had
made arrangements to borrow the pass
Of his colleague, and so didn't need his
HiLlOaUk66 Sentinel.
DURING the las six or eight years, &C
cOrding to the dmly and NdUg Journal,
fully One-half of the recruits received
into the army hare deserted. There has
been an improvement, however, during
the last two Yeas, the number OF deser
tions falling Of some so per cent.
The change is attributed to the Army
bill of 1872, by he provisions of which
are offered 10 men to remain
in the service The pay was increased,
4 portion being retained until the final
discharge, and savings banks, wherein
the thrifty nigh lay up store of cash,
were established
THE luster and cleanness of English
made pins have a reputation SURPRISING
those made in any other country. This
is owing, says the Scientific ReUie1c, TO the
peculiar treatment to which the better
descriptions of the article are subjected.
They are first cleaned by boiling for hall
an hour in sour beer, wine lees, or So
luton of tartar, after which they are
washed They are then Whitened or
timed by being laid in strata, In com
mon pan made of copper, alternately
with grain tin in the proportions Of about
six pounds of tin to seven pounds OF
pins, until the vessel is filed. Water Is
now added and heat applied, and as
soon as the water gets hot its surface IS
sprinkled with four ounces Of cream of
tartar, after which il is allowed to boil
for an hour. This operation is repeated
once or twice, the pins being washed IN
cold water between each boiling After
timing the pins are polished By agitation
in leather sack filled with bran, and
after the bran has been separated by
winnowing the pins are collected in
bowls for papering-