, 1876-08-27
THE CITY.
GENERAL NEWS.

1Qe GQeTIQAU HOUSE Ii entertaining al SAeol
sion party Of about 100 persons from Iowa
They arrived yesterday and remain over to-day
Better be lucky than anything else. T. B
Bo1d, tue rea1-estatc man, has had an uncle di
n California and leave him $40, ,oG0. News o
the event has Just reached Afr. Boyd.
Mrs. D. J. Staples and Miss Kitty Staples, d
San Francisco, are spending few days In tbF
city before making an extended Eastern touf
They are guests OF Mr. and Mrs. T. s. Ckars-
The employees OF Rand, McNally & Co. were
given picnic by the firm yesterday at hlsh
land Park. 4 band of music accompanied thcm'
and the time was spent yerY pleasantly IN oanc"
Ing, playing various games, etc.
The temperature yesterday, AZ observed BY
Manasse, optician, IS Madison street CRIB
UsE Buildiug), WAS ut s a- H., 63 degrees; III
q. H., IS; .. m. 60; p. m, Il: p. m, IS.
Barometer, T. m., 1926; P. m, 2s9.@7.
Fred Miller, the carpenter Who fell from a
building at the corner OF Hubbard street M and p
iurics yesterday morning: The Coroner held
The in Quest yesterday, aud returned verdict IN
accordance with the facts of the accident
"Is your husband in, madam!' "No, sir,
be is not" 81 Excuse me, madam, but l saw
him at the window upstairs as came up the
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m7iniug in the company Of man Who calls me q
! fiar.'T exit, slamming door.) Now what did
The caller make BY th2ts
An honest farmer brought l. lot Of peaches to
town last week, and when the b1oatcd middle
man called his attention to the fact that they
were bigger at the top Of the basket than else
where, sllenced him declaring that the roads
was powerful rough, aud the fruit got shook up
SC that the big ones all come to the top.
4 patriot father On Congress street found =
euchre-deck IN the pocket Of his degenerate son
couple Of nights ago and, to induce him to
return to the simplicity and virtue Of his FORE
fathers, administered to h9 Centennial lick
ing. He gave the boy 1,T6 licls, and thinks
that it viii last him through the second century
of our national existence.
Judge Moore has consented to preside In the
County Court, commencing tomorrow morning,
at 10 o'clock. to try 4 number OF insane cases.
Judge Wallace is absent. There are q number
OF insane persons lying in the various stations
snd In the jail md it was deemed, only humane
that they should either be sent to "a asylum or
released from confinement
About this time the faithful husband who has
been keeping widowerns hall during the alb
eence Of lis wife and children at \ summer re-
sort begins wondering what in thunder will take
the smell out of the parlor curtains, and whetll-
.r bis wife will notice big chip knocked out Of
the statuette's face, and the marks Of boot
heels all over the centre-table
The Hawthorne Society, a newly-organizcd
literary club Of the North Division, held q meet
ing Tuesday evening at their rooms, l19 Wells
btrcet, for the purpose OF selecting officers for
President, Mr.. Frank Walker; vice-President,
e. Geohegan: Secretary, Mr.. John r. Walsh;
Treasurer, Mr.. H. Geselbracht-
1T makes me sick,'' said girlish thing Of
1bout a summers on an Indiana avenue car last
night as another young creature entered it. "it
makes me sick to see people who ought to be
preparing for the tomb painting and titirating
Bhe laughed laugh of such hearty scorn that
her front teeth fell out and her back hair drop
ped of.
A clearinghouse keeper on Adams street hss
had q brilliant idea She keeps three big ash
barrels at her door, filled respectively with bones
shells and the residnum Of pne-applcs, cauli-
flowers and other fruits and vegetables. People
who come to engage board sce this, and con-
cludc that she sets a sumptuous table, But she
doesn't, IS they subsequently discover.
Lovers Of the oyster will rfpembcr that the
months with an r." begin ht midnight We'd
ncsday. Up to II $50 p. II. the oyster can only
be eaten at the proper period Of the conviye,
but ut l3.Ql a m: be may b safely par
taken Of. It is useless to attempt to cheat the
wary animal by putting the clock on, or jump
ing = day on the otfice-calendar, for he has in
accurate idea Of time, and is sure to disagree
with the man who devours him under false pre-
tences.
Tic Committee on Equalization OF the County
Board held private conference with member
OF the State Boa-l. The matter of the bank
assessments was laid before the member Of the
State Board, a1d he advised the Committee to
raise the assessment about $2,000,000. 1t was
his opinion that if the assessment was nut
raised this amount on the banks, that the State
Board would make the raise and distribute it
fhwF1 il h. u .1x%&., +.
creased assessments made during the day was
that Of H. A. kohn, on personal property, from
81 900 to $4,000.
An old man on Thirty-eighth street who has a
very jealous wife, attempted q few weeks ago
to ovcrrcach and cripple young merchant en-
Eaged in the same line Of trade. The young
merchant did not say anything, bat he Just
went and bought a nice lace handkerchief with
" Carrie" worked in one corner, aud crumpled
It up and sprlnk1cd 1t With perfume, and then
gave the Old mans servant-girl SO to shore it
down behind the sofa-cushion the night before
bis wife returned from the country. He says
he wouldn't have minded If the old cues had /
s"'lndled him out Of twice the money he did.
Always be affahle and kind to your interiors.
Little acts OF Kindness do not cost you much, !
and go far to Tighten the dai1y load Of care OF !
others. Frinstance, there is young man who |
takes his meals at Madison street restaurant, |
who always speaks courteously to the waiter |
and gives him 10 cents or a quarter from time |
to time, and the grateful man, though his sta |
tion IN life is humble. takes every opportunity |
his benefaetor eats a5-cent meal lie gives him |
9 check for S., and so on, and In this manner |
the young man saves about 20 per cent Of his !
Testaurapt-bi1l-
Mr.. George II. Stowe, Of Lincoln, H., COM |
mittcd suicide at his residence in that city last
net been well for several days. and on the even |
fnE mentioned, between 6 and O'Clock he sent /