The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-05-02
NUMBER 1858.
MISCELLANEOUS.

MIscELLANEOUs.
1t is rumored that the Mexican rsvu-
lutionists have been badly beaten near
Monterey.
The sheriff al Laramie City has cap
tured two women there who are believ-
ed 10 be members Of the Bender fam
lily.
A somnambulist of Hastings, Mimi.
walked ont of a window and fell dis
tance OF twenty feet. He was not
much ihjurad.
IL don't speak well for family TO
see four or five old broons, with the
handles broken off, laying around in
the back yard.
Henry Lend, taller OF Siyer City,
Idaho. who has been engaged at his
trade 81 years, estimated that IN that
time he has taken 40, ,G40,0o0 stitches.
A Keokuk woman sent TO store for
a fresh supply OF embroidery the other
day. She had given birth to new
pair Of twins, and had only provided
FOR only one baby.
The oldest of the Sultan's ennuchs
recently died in the Palace Of Top
He was 102 years old. Must be good,
healthy business looking after har-
um-scarum lot Of idle women.
/ An aged pair, living ia Syracuse, who
have been married for fifty-three yeaIs.
aud who had often wished that they
might died at the same time, died last
Thursday within the same hour.
man who once got $40 "a week as a
/ living skeleton in circus was admit
! ted TO an Indiana poor-house the other
/ day. He got fat and was thrown out
OF employment.
Hon. John Gordon, Of Morgan Co.,
/ Illinois, who has taken much pains To
collect statistics in regard TO the hog
cholera, estimates the loss in past years
Ut 8, 100000.
Last week n jury ia Carroll county,
Georgia, brought in this verdict: "We,
the jury, agree to disagree" The
Judge unanimously agreed thsreupon
to fine them s. each.
Mr.. Lemuel Sprague, ail-maker OF
Boston, died the other day from the
prick Of needle in his thumb. II is
supposed that the needle was impreg-
mated with poison.
A New Orleans girl who had an offer
OF marriage from n Mr.. Moore wrote
him q note asking time TO consider the
matter. aud closed her communication
with mo more at present"
A Baltimore woman gave birth to a
boy baby the other day which weighed
twenty-thres pounds and half, and
was twenty-four inches in height. The
mother and father are both small. The
child died.
at Dresden, Tenn, last week, in the
Goth year of her age Adam Caldwell,
who survives her, is LOG. Rhoda was
his second wife, and the two lived to-
/ gether seventy-two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Edge, OF Laurens Co,
have snly lG living children, the Oldest
~ years OF age and the youngest ba-
by at the breast. The mother is not
over thirty-five years old. This is no
Edseaggeration.
A gentleman in Savannah, who talks
in his sleep, used some language the
other night that aroused both his wife
and her suspicious, and caused him to
look next morning as if he had washed
his face with nutmeg CRATER.
al wish might die" sighed senti-
mental maid. as she stood rubbing the
shoulder of her dress with benzipe;
and yet the very next time he came she
let him lay his head right on the same
spot.
Miss Thursby commands the largest
salary of any choir singer in the coun-
try. She is to receive 81, 900 year for
singing at the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
with carriage, hotel bills, ETC., in addi-
ton.
One hundred aud eighty-seven years
ago Jacob Brown deposited a sum of
money in the Bank of England, and as
the years roll on good many people
begin to think that Jacob will never
come round for il.
A Mrs. Collier, q widow living in the
suburbs Of Columbus, Ga, while ont
in her garden one day last week, was
bitten on the ankle by rattlesnake,
FROM the effects of which she died the
following day.
The iack-rabbits in Sierra Valley,
California, have been starved cut by
the deep snow, aud cOngregate in
droves about the hay-stacks, where the
farmers kill them by hundreds.
II took only two years Of democratic
"reform" rule in Lockport, y. Y, TO
satisfy the people that they had made
a political mistake; and this spring
the republicans elected the mayor and
gained three aldermen, giving them
control of the city government again.
A West-side boy who has been sit
ting up nights reading pirate stories
called his father to supper the other
day, by blowing: "What no, there,
base cravenl Come hither to thy vesps-
rian hash" And when that father and
that son come together il sounded as
if the but had slipped out Of 20 foot
fiy-whecl.
No ceusure eau be too harsh for that
wretched man who, being married the
other day, put the wedding ring into
his mouth when the service began, that
he might find il at the proper moment.
The moment arrived. The minister
motioned for the ring. The trembling
bridegroom gave an obedient start,
sudden gulp. and the ring disappeared
down his unlucky throat.
out in Council Bluffs, Iowa. last
week. two young women. schoolmates,
in n gush Of affection, went before "A
iustico of the peace, and demanded
that he should unite them in marriage,
that being the only way, they said. ia
which they might be iudissolubly join
ed for life. The next day the loving
pair met Young man whom they both
, admired. and this week are not on
speaking terms.
Adviccs are received at Leavenworth
that on Thursday night n family OF en-
igrants named Baker, from somewhere
in Pennsylvania, were massacred by
the Indians about 100 miles northwest
OF Custer City The family consisted
! of a man, wife aud two children, all of
whom were Drained with hatchets OF
: tomahawks, and then scalped. The
wagon belonging TO Baker was rified
and everything valuable carried off,
, The bo.liee pf the victims we're decent