The Morning herald., 1875-09-02
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT

IS Railroad trains frequently make sixt
B. miles an hour in England.
> DR.. Hall says peaple only need wash
!" ing with soap once week.
A Southern editor has been presente
: with lizard with two tails.
, Mrs. James A. Oates, Of unhappy matri
monial fame, is at Long Branch.
"Toes," is the sole remnant of produc'
| sign which once read Potatoes"
Velocipedes are to be used hereafter b,
: the messengers in the Italian army.
The American Pomological Society viii
hold its annual session at Chicago, Sept.
9, and 10.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyl
vania, is at tho Twin Mountain House
New Hampshire.
The colored sisters of jacksonville, Fla.
have founded "The Rising Daughters Of
Sepulchre" Association.
In 1874 the United States furnished 5
per cent. of the importations into Brazil,
and received 46 per cent. of the exporta-
tions from that country.
Here is chance for husbandless women.
The Buffalo authorities have decided that
no woman having husband shall be ac-
cepted as public school teacher.
On Saturday next, the anniversary of
the death of Ex-Governor Thomas H. Sey-
mour, of Connecticut, his friends will dec.
crate his grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
1t is a custom they never omit.
A Parisian girl adyertises in the Figaro
for a husband, with the proviso ~ had
rather be the wife of joiner than the
slave of a Prince" But she may fetch up
as the slave of joiner. How then?
The Comptroller Of the Treasury has in
structed N. B. Longford, National Bank
Examiner for the Pacific Coast, to proceed
to San Francisco to make an examination
of the affairs of the National Gold Bank
and trust Company.
Aaron Nuders, a well-known and inAu-
ential citizen of Frederick county, Nd,
was accidentally drowned in a mill-race, at
Linganore, on Monday. He was one of
the proprietors of the Linganore FIGURING |
Mills and the Frederick City Steam Mills.
The fox in the fable had his tail some
what abbreviated by having it caught in
steel-trap, but the tale of the New Jersey
State Treasurer's defalcation gains in
length very considerably as it goes West.
AT Pittsburg they put it at s5OO,OOo. By
the time it reaches California it will be-
come about $2,O0O,00O.
One man at least has been made happy
by the failure Of the Bank of California,
his name it is McGarrahan, who is
a claimant" Of some nine or ten years
standing, has always attributed his failure
10 secure the New Idria quicksilver prop I
,rty to the influence of the Bank of Cali
ornia, as welded in behalf of the party in
possession.
The celebration to take place at Nash
lille, Tinnessee, in commemoration of the
ife and services Of Ex-President johnson, :
las been arranged in this manner: The Il
ellis of the city will be tolled at sunrise
'r thirty minutes, guns will be fired at in 81
srvals through the day, business will be +
uspended between 10 o'clock M. and 3
}. NJ, and professor and an Grafton will d
e among the incidents of the occasion. II
Our mosquito is sharp in practice as we'll ~ ~
in his bill. Two things he hates-light
nd draft Of air; and so he lulls his vic lin
ms to extinguish the one and close the in
indows against the other, in order that he is
'ay pasture in perfect peace. Mosquitoes T.,
ever fly toward fame. In the dark W
'rners Of the room he seeks shelter until c,
le lights be put out. After that is his
me for action. Every one knows that
'eeze scatters him, yet strives to give him us
arkness and calm.
The Boston Herald presents a serious "
II Of indictment againt Postmaster Burt.
that city, to the effect that he sadly ne la'
ected the performance Of his official du.
Is, and that, in connection with the trec- Gu
IN OF the new Post Office build!nei'the
operty Of the government and the lime 20
it's employees have been converted. to
ivate uses" The Herald says that thSssfo