, 1876-10-06
GLEANINGS.

Wheat is selllng 81 ~ cenIS az
Salem, Oregon.
"Children cry for them"-the new
United States bonds.
The Paris Figaro advises its read
ers to distrust fair-complexioned
women with wide mouths"
In Texas they hang horse thieves,
but in alluding to the subject they
gently put it: Equine extractors
suspended in the forest.
California is a precocious locality.
Three Sacramento girls under fifteen
have been arrested for burglary.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart will soon re-
turn from Europe, whittier she went
to escape begging letters. The pal
ace on Fifth avenue is tenanted only
by servants.
The middle aisle of the Main Cen
tennial building is broader than any
street in the world, and each Of the
side aisIes is broader than any street
IN Washington.
At q sham battle in Rome, N. Y,
the other day, the veterans fred off
5000 cartrio ges and $4,000 glasses
OF lager.
Gen. Sherman says: "The way
to settle the Indian trouble this win
ter will be by whipping the Indians
into listing peace"
The revisers Of the Bible are now
about half through tearing that good
book to pieces.
Brigham Young has only eighteen
wives now, and his fortune has de-
clined to a paltry 100000.
The Italian King Victor Emanuel
reads his title clear to salary of
$6,27O day. Queen Victoria has
to keep herself fed and clothed on
the sane pitiful sum per day.
It seems impossible, but statistics
show that Americans consume ten
times as much champagne as the
French.
One hundred and twenty thousand
children are now attending the pub
lie schools of New York city.
The Indian war situation in the
West and the Turkish war situation
in the East are about equally hidden
from the understanding of the Amer
ican press and people.
An Oberlin, Ohio, woman lies in
bed and lets her husband get break
fast, and yet she is a graduate Of
two colleges and can write poetry
BY the column.
Bayard Taylor has seen every
Worlds Fair ever yet held, and con-
siders the Centennial Exhibition
the most interesting and complete
of them all.
Yellow fever interments at Savan
nah on the I'D, numbered 81.
Nearly 1000 head Of fat cattle
have been shipped to England this
year by the Allan line Of steamers
from Montreal.
A special cablegram from London
Eng. states that the Times has still
further modified its views Of the Bri
tish Columbia question, and now ad-
mits that Canada has made every
exertion to carry on the Pacific rail-
way undertaking, and has more than
redeemed its pledges as regards the
progress Of the work and the expen-
ditures thereon.
Mayor Stokeley, of Philadelphia,
received letter last week contain
ing request from professional
thieves Of the city to have a day set
apart when they could visit the ex-
position without fear Of being cap
tured. They promise that should
the request be granted, the suppli-
cants would on the day specified act
in perfectly orderly aad law-abid-
ing manner.
At Keene, N. H., on the 24th inst,
some 800 laborers on the Manches-
ter and Keene railroad, marched
down into the city armed with
canes and clubs, creating general
alarm. The Court House bell was
rung and the square surrounding it
was speedily filed with citizens.
The demonstration was caused by
the failure Of the contractors to pay
wages The men visited the resi-.
dences Of several prominent men
identified with the road, demanding
wages and food and threatening to
burn the town if their demands were
not complied with. The police and
military were supplied with arms to
prevent violence.