, 1876-09-22
GLEANINGS.

pounds.
Only 95,S73 people visited the
Centennial a week ago Saturday.
There are over fifty millionaireS
in San Francisco.
George Smith, the Assyrian ex-
plorer is dead.
A Connecticut female was refused
q position of school-msrm because
she had beau.
A New York theatre is about to
bring out a play entitled, "Custer
and his Avengers"
A colored waiter advertising for a
situation says be can =" fold napkins
in 800 different ways in the image
of every kind of bird"
A fat man can sit on the thumb
nail of the statue of the Goddess of
Liberty to be erected in New York
harbor by the Frenchmen.
Boss Tweed always paid 81 per
pound for his beefsteak, never pur-
chasing anything but solid tender
loin three inches thick.
There is q handkerchief at the
Centennial worth 81 800. Where is
the nose to match it.
Gen. Crook is 1.-THE, lean, light
haired man, Of both military and
hunter character.
Besides pistols and bowie knives,
the smallpox is undermining human
life in the Black Hills.
Belle Boyd, the female spy, has
broken out in the South again. She
is q Tilden man.
The Centennial is a success, take
it as you will, but at half price ad-
missions it is stupendously so.
One good thing about Turkey
the young men over there are
obliged by law to obey their parents.
About as fashionable an amuse-
ment as any that has been going on
during the past summer in the East,
was going out in parties of four or
FIVE for . boat ride and getting
drowned.
When man is a workman he
thinks that six hours per day is all
that man should be employed, but
after he gets to be proprietor he
can't see why a man should stop
short of twelve hours.
A dispatch from Chicago of the
9TH inst, says that during she parade
of Wheeler and Hayes procession
there that night, John Berthmon, q
young German Is years old, who
had been playing with some COM
panions, was knocked down BY them
and kicked in the abdomen so terri
bly, that be died almost instantly.
The reduction in naval matters
viii cause q deficiency Of 81, ,000,0
in the appropriation for the pay of
officers and men actually in service.
It really seems as if Ireland's day
had begun to dawn at last, and that,
too, when other countries are in !
throes. An Irish landlord writing
in Frazer's Magazine, says that
"there never was time in the mem-
ory Of any one living when Irish ten
ants we're making so much money,
or rents we're SO well paid"
In May last Mrs. A. TrusselI, liv-
ing at Obey, Iowa, while at work in
her garden, felt swapping sound ac-
companied by severe pain, in her
right leg above the knee. 1t caused
her much trouble and she was COM
PEELED to 60 to her bed. There was
no swelling or suppuration but great
pain. A council of physicians was
called, chloroform administered, and
an incision made which disclosed the
fact that several inches of the bone
was decaYed and gone. Amputa-
tion was at once performed.
A few nights ago three tramps Sc
creted themselves in a school house
near Fairfield Iowa, and when the
Teachers beautiful girl of "
came the next morning to open
school, they seized and gagged her,
let down all the curtains, and each
one outraged her, leaving her un-
conscious, in which condition the
school children found her.
"A man paid $1,000 for Washing
tons oldstate coach to exhibit out
side the Centennial grounds; he put
up building and offered a sight of
1t At ten cents a head. At the end
OF three weeks he had not taken in
asingle dime.
ROOK & JOB wORH