Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

her retieule became full so soon she was
obliged to send for another .s,za
-Countess Hadich has been received
as a Freemason in a Hungarian lodge
under the Grand Orient Of Hungary.
The Countess is q highly educated lady,
and having studied aud become well
versed in Masonic literature she was
regularly proposed and seconded IN
open Lodge, balloted for, and in due
course was duly initiated. The Grand
Orient of Hungary, however, declare the
initiation to be null and void, ON the
ground that a roman is disqualified
from being a Freemason; and the Curl
Gus question now arises whether, as the
Countess was actually Initiated, she can
be refused admission to her lodge. The
London Freemason Is authority for the
statement, 8=t=Ee A, . sal ~ 3 II
2"' '''T odds and E,ads.
This is an age, of sudden changes.
The girl who is picking up autumn
leaves this fall may be picking up cod
fish q year hence for a sh~ort-haired man
with a wart.-Danbury NeCs. 1EGI
An intelligent youth, recently en-
gagged in a commercial Office, made out
a Shipping bill for 'sfourty'' barrels of
flour. His employer called his atten-
ton to an error in the spelling of forty.
"Sure enough" replied the promising
clerk, al left out the gh."s> 7-..4' 80
He was not a scientist, but he was
modest, and when a young man asked
him at the tea table what was meant by
an ornithorhyncus he frowned, and re-
minded him that there are some things
which should not be mentioned before
ladies.-NorWtch Bulletin. .,'
Grace Greenwood's experience is
nearly complete. She has rode a mule
in the mountains q la clothes-pin, and
recently she took a ride on the cow
catcher of a locomotive. But she says
she never will climb the cow-catcher
again. She only wants to ride q saw
log over some of the ST. Lawrence rap
ids now, and her education will be fin
shed.
in a time of great political excite
ment when Johnnie's Republican father
often spoke against the politics of his
littfs cousin Bennie's Democratic ia
Their. the former was one night in doubt
"Oooo eiIO PAopliCby Va pa LIZ AOA ChC
latter, but at last he determined to keep
his friend in the prayer, and closed by
saying, "and bless Cousin Bonnie, if
his father is a Democratic
They attempted to take oneof Bar
NUNS new giratfes across Rhode Island
last week, but just as it was on the
Massachusetts, line it reached over and
ate up about half of a hay-stack in a
farm-yard in Connecticut, and when
the farmer came out with a club and
attacked the Connecticut end, the Mas
sachusetts end got mad and kicked 4
man in Boston and nearly killed him.
1t created a good deal of excitement at
the time in Rhode Island, and most of
the people stepped out of the State till
it was over.
The sad intelligence ONE that the
orang-outang in the Berlin Geological
Garden died recently of consumption.
His loss is deeply felt. AS an orang-
outang he was an ornament to his pro-
f~ession, and in the social circle he shohe
pre-eminent. He was always kind to
the female chimpanzee, and toward the
gorilla showed no envy O petty mall
ice. He wore his whiskers in the style
of the kaiser, and, though he hadn't at
the time of his death evoluted his tail
off, was always manly in his ways. In
the midst of life we are in debt.-St.
Louis Republican.