The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-12
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

| The California papers abbreviate
their head line into ''The B..T. Sean
DIAL"
James Russell Lowell wrote a po-
EN- for the Concord Centennial which
no short hand reporter could follow
through the ever-changing metres.
Now he has sold it to the Atlantic
for $500.
The Schenectady father who has
thirteen daughters says that he can
not afford to observe Sunday, and
if his girls insist upon an education,
he will have to start female semi
nary.
The San Francisco people are fa-
vorabIy considering project to sup
ply the city with water from the CAL
averas river, about fifty miles in the
interior of the State. The cost Of
the scheme will be nearly $11,000,-
600.
Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown has
just built twenty-five handsome res
licences in St. Louis, and has begun
to collect the rents which seems
pleasanter employment than being
defeated for the Vice Presidency.
There was once Pennsylvania
legislator who laid by thirty thous-
and dollars in one session. When
he was asked how he managed this
with salary ofone thousand dollars.
he said he saved it by doing without
a hired girl.
The citizens of Alta, Utah, no long
er trouble themselves about going
down stairs. u is only necessary
for them to throw open their second
story windows and tread majestical-
ly over ten feet OF beautiful snow.
just as we thought! Now the
English papers come to the rescue
in-the spelling madness, and they
say that the judges in our matches
don't know how to spell so well as
their unfortunate victims,
Gov. Tilden was thrown from his
horse while riding in Albany on Mon
day, and received such a severe
wrench of his back that he has been
confined to this house.-Neto York
Tribune.
A tramp weighing 2O6 pounds,
who logged at the Warcham, Mass,
Poorhouse the other night, says that
he weighed but 95 pounds when he
started out last winter, and recon-
mends his business to all ihvalids.
A Dubuque printer received the
following note from his girl "May
| git yanked ont O. bed at midnite
every mite by cuss like Theydore
Tilton, an carried upp a million pare
of stares, iff ever l scese to love you,
Jim
a lady entered the store of Tuttle
& Co, the other day in search of post
age stamps, and was told they were out
OF them. She asked when they would
have some ready, and was told chat they
should get some the first time they went
to the postoffice Why said she in
nocently Il supposed that you printed
them here, and that the pOstofhce got
them of you.-RatJaRdH Hoyald.
p II. Barnum promises to visit H.
linois in June with his great Roman
Hippodrome, to build a wooden
structure in each city capable of
seating $4,000, and run cheap ex-
cursion trains TO all the smaller
towns. If there are no railroads, he
will build few.
A Western editor appeals to lis
delinquent subscribers by saying:
This week VIC have taken in pota-
toes and pickles on subscription.
Now, if you will bring in some vine.
gar for the pickles and some wood
to roast the potatoes, we can live
till articholIes get big enough to dig"
Zone of the most useless, vulgar
and pernicous customs Of American
society is that of treating" Many a
genial, generous-h hearted young man
acquires the, habit of drinking under
bondage to this custom, from fear
Of being considered mean if he
should decline to receive or give
''treat." - Chicago Standard.
Among the personal peculiarities
of the late Canon Kingsley is men,
toned a curious habit Of leaving his
countless pipes about in all sorts of
unexpected places. He was n de-
voted smoker, and it is said by one
of his friends that whenever you
went into his parish neighborhood
you might find pipe of his i'm q
hedge or other nook, the rustics
knowing and respecting parsons
pipe" turn it up where they might.
The value Of the wedding gifts Of
Mile. d'Albe, niece of the Empress
Eugene, is said to reach the pleas
ant amount Of $1,600,000. One of
these gifts is a cameo ring which be-
Ionged to Charles V. Other little
amusing trifies are eleven necklaces
of brilliants. The Duke d'Ossuna,
whom the young lady marries, is one
of the richest personages of the Pc.
ninsula. Talking of weddings, there
was an odd innovation upon estab-
lished custom i'm Paris The other day,
when a solo upon the violin was per-
formed during the church ceremoni-
al by distinguished artist.
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