The Morning herald., 1876-12-21
Fl ere and There.

| Fhli. SHERIDAN mas pneumonia.
Eros. has nipped Florida's oranges.
The Brooklyn Theatre is to be rebuilt.
Calcutta makes 4o,ooo,ooo bags yearly.
They bag forty pound possoms in Texas.
Scratch me on the back. A match safe.
Bold.-Everybody informs everybody
else.
l heal all wounds but those of love.
Court plaster.
Texas sweet potatoes weigh twenty
pounds.
! Tll..ad. Stevens law Office is barber
shop.
Justice is usually bliad, but Chief JUS
tice Waite is only bow-legged.
How are thoses new hats the ladies wear
held on. By attraction.
English ferrets are used extensively at
Oshkosh, Wis, to mitigate the plague of
rats.
A black raccoon, very rare animal,
was killed near Eau Claire, Wis, the other
day. ,-
The Chicago "Times" speaks of the
weather up there as ID. K" Slote is in
Chicago.
Stumbling proves our tendency to fall,
but it proves also our capacity to stand
erect.
The oil wells in the Boiling Run region
of Pennsylvania shows steady decline in
production.
Hayes thinks he's elected, but, as Grant
said in his message, "all men are liable to
make mistakes.
A Norristown grammarian thinks thea
tres should be built with "plenty of
egresses to get in and out of it,"
Shakespeare free, the Family Story Pa
per, gives gratis every week, parts OF this
interesting work.
During the year just closing nearly 40
lives have been lost in the Pennsylvania
oil region through careless handling Of
nitro glycerine.
In Evansville, Ind, on Sunday 80 enthu-
siastic souls were baptized in the Ohio,
although the ice had to be broken to per-
form the ceremony.
A hustle dropped by young lady in an
Allentown academy consisted Of two ging-
ham aprons and-some other things. 1t
made her feel $50 bad."
The manager of the Metropolitan Thea
tre at indianapolis has been indicted for
disecratirg the Sabbath by giving public
entertainments on Sunday evenings.
Lieut.. A. w. Vodge., of the regular
army. charges the mound builders with
cannibalism. And there is no mound
builder left to defend his race from the foul
aspersion.
Newspapers pasted together and laid
over a bed are said to be warmer than
blanket 1t should be remembered, how
ever, that this is only SO when theys are
paid for.
The fact that Horace Greeley had valet
was first made known by the presence of
gentleman claiming that distinction at the
monument dedication in Greenwood, the
other day.
Mr.. Chahee, the new Senator from Col
orado is enormously wealthy, and widow
er. 1t is not especially encouraging to fair
treasury clerks, however, that he has been
a widower for twenty years.
A clam in the cellar Of resident of
Hampton Falls, N. H., made itself useful,
the other night, in the capacity Of mouse
trap, catching one of those animals by the
leg and holding it securely.
There are 1000 more men than woman
in the district of Columbia, and yet if one
woman is drowned great hullrbaloo is
made about it in the papers.
The loyal Madagascarian has to hurrah
for Queen Renovalomanjaka. When
an assembly of 5000 jaws get to work on
three hearty cheers fos the Sovereign, it
seems as if the island is being wrenched
from its place.
We wouldn't mind the cold weather, if
it wasn't that the man in AN ulster overcoat
will begin to jam into street Car like an
animated bale of army blankets, and shed
an avalanche ef snow on the suffering COM
munity every time he reaches into his
pocket for nickle.
"Fred said young man the other DAY
after listening to his wonderful story, "do
YOU know why you are like harp struck
by lightuing?' mo" says Fred; II give
it up." "Because harp struck by light
ming is blasted Tyre"
A Kansas girl, of doubtful age"
married youth Of twenty not long ago,
and determined not to be bothered over
the matter. Expecting serenade with
tin pans, horns and other noisemakers, she
turned her house into an arsenal on the
night of the wedding. The musicians ap' |
preached cautiously, and were just in the
act OF giving the first blast, when bang
went four guns from the front windows Of
the dwelling. Those fellows didn't sue.
ceed in serenading the "young couple"
but consumed the remainder Of the night |
in picking mustard seed shot from tn their
f.ces and pecEs. - st. joseph (Mo.)