The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-02-08

Circus riders are fully aware that
this is leap year, and they tumble so-
cordingly.
II is not SO much trouble for a man
to get rich as il is for him to tell when
he's got rich.
A Grand Leap-year Ball came of st
the Potter House, Battle Greek, We'd
nesday night last. Over one hundred
couple were present.
Flood, the California banker, made
$500, 600 recently in one days mining
operations. That's the Flood which
leads on to fortune.
America produces 1000, 900 paper
collars day. II seems from this that
the men who wear paper collars put on
q clean one occasionally.
Gail Hamilton says that girl should
pich out Q husband as she picks cut a.
apple. That 10 resssuring. So many
women pick out their husbands - thsS
pick out potato-by the eyer.
At Flemingsburg, Kentucky, on the
Goth. Mr.. Jesse Hall and Miss Gilksr-
son, and Mrs. Soil Ham and Miss Hall
were married on horseback. in the mid
die OF the road. 1t must have been .
Soil Ham affair.
The skeleton OF General Lees war
horse is to be exhibited at the Centsn-
nial. The skeleton of the cause for
which General Lee fought is nov on
exhibition in the National House Of
Representatives.
A California couple have been di-
vorced after living aud fighting to-
gether for thirty changing years. The
chances are ten out of one that they
will cement before another year has
rolled over their frosty heads.
A woman is rarely profans in words,
but the expressions that fash over her
countenance when she regsins ner feet
after falling on slippery walk is a.
emphatic As . string Of oaths mile
long.
A lady gave . dramatic rscitstios q
Wellsboro, Penn, recently, and among
other selections gave SAN Welfare
Valentine" from "Pickwick." In his
criticisms Of her performance the dig
nified country editor advises her to
discard all such pieces a. this. taken
from "the slang literature OF the day"
A Chinaman in Californis, whose
life was insured for q large amount,
was seriously hurt by falling from
wagon. There was soms doubt OF HE
ever getting better, and at length one
~ Il. frsA IA. 10 he
company, Charley half dead like
halt money"
Two young ladies who live in Bak-
ersfeld, Vermont, went to bed tho
other night leaving a kerosene lamp
dimly burning. In the morning they
were found unconscious from the effects
OF the gas which had generated from
the lamp and were restored with diff
Guilty.
Says the Terre Haute Express: A
young man who was recently discharg-
ed from q retail store in this city, upon
being met by friend in the streets q
few days after, and asked why he quit
the aforesaid place, replied: "Well, to
tell the truth sbout it, am in love,
and couldn't tend to the store right,
and thought l had better quit"
Among all the accomplishments of
youth, there is none more preferable 10
q decent and agreeable behavior among
men than a modest freedom Of speech,
a soft and elegant manner OF address,
q graceful and lovely department, .
cheerful gravity and good humor, with
o mind appearing ever serene under
the ruffiing accidents Of human life
Watts.
A marble firm agent, soliciting or
ders for tombstones in Alameda county
California, was recently badly sold by
a man who directed him 10 q woman
chad Just lost her husband" but whsa
he got there aud found she had lost
him by his running off with another
woman he thought himself lucky that
he got of with ss much hair as he did.
'Isnt it little odd," asked the Bos-
ton Traveller, "that while all decent
men are horrified when they hear Of .
wife being whipped, they should do
nothing bat laugh at husband who 10
whipped by his wife - 1t is not at all
odd They well know that il every
husband were whipped by his wife who
deserves to be whipped by her the
stock OF rawhides in the country would
be exhausted in "a hours.