The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS, !.

MISCELLANEOUS. ~ j..
The Maine Changers have in
creased so that there are 400 lodges in
the State, with an average member
ship of 20.
"A Hebrew restaurant will be set
up on the Centennial grounds to &C.
all Israelites who will
visit the Exposition.
BE careful in tearing down old
houses; $4,000 worth of gold and
silver coins were found the other day
in an old mansion in Jersey City.
Mrs. Paron Stevens house in
Fifth Avenue, New York, will cost,
when completed, about 100000.
The malachite mantles in the draw
ing-room come to $4,000.
The annual report Of the State
Auditor Of Kentucky has an item of
$11 ,5oo.25 paid for scalps, but wheth-
er for the scalps of wolves, bears,
foxes or Ku-Klux is not definitely
set forth.
Some of the London papers have
ordered home their special CORES
pondents" from India, it being found
that the public cares very little about
the tour of the Prince of Wales.
"A chime of twelve bells is now
being cast at Baltimore for the Gen.
tennial. The bells will be in charge
Of Professor Widows, Of Washing.
ton, and will play the national airs of
the world.
Theodore Thomas very prettily
says that art and culture in this coun-
try can look for support aud encour-
agement only to the women. The
majority Of the men, he says, are on
ly taken along.
"A petition has been received and
presented to the House of Representa-
tives that is a curiosity in the matter
of autographs. 1t asks a removal of
the duty on works printed in the
dead languages. Among the sigma
lures are the names Of Henry w.
Iongfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, James BUS
sell Lowell, and other famous litera.
teurs.
Samuel L. Avery won $4,000
by betting on an election in Louis
vile. The law of Kentucky pro.
vides that money thus obtained may
be sued for by the District Attorney,
and divided between the State treas
'ury and the school fund. An action
has been commenced, and similar
proceedings are to be brought against
other winners Of election bets.
Mr.. Charles O'Conor will never
resume the active practice of law,
but he will attend to private business
at his Office as soon as possible. He
is a childless widower, and finds hi.
own home cherries enough during
the daytime, when all the rest of the
world is engag ed in business.
Mr.. Darwin tells story, as an
example of the reasoning powers of a
monkey TINT was scratched by pet
kitten. At first Jocko was immense.
: ly amazed. Recovering from his
surprise, he set at work to disoove,
the location Of the claws. After q
severe tussle he got the fore feet Of
the kitten within his clutches saw the
nails thrust from their guards, and
with the broadest grin of satisfaction
he proceeded deliberately to bite the
points off each one.
Mrs. Cross, Of Paw Paw, Michi-
gan, thinkingher husband was unduly
attentive to his brothers wife, was
thereby made jealous. One evening
he left the house late, and she guessed
he had gone to meet his sister-in-law.
So Mrs. Cross followed stealthily and
discovered, not a liason, but murder.
She logged him to place where he
was joined by two brothers, and thence
kept them in sight while they took a
drunken stranger toward a lake.
Then she went home. The stranger
was robbed and drowned, and her
testimony is used in the trial Of the
three brothers.