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GENERAL BREyITIES.

account.
THEY do the same thing outside Of
Washington. A New York workman
helped steal some papers for his wife's
hustle. It's the demands of society as
is pullin' of us down.
Miss SHELTON, of Marshallton, Iowa,
could not get damages of her recreant
lover in a breach of promise suit, but
she could and did throw red pepper in
his eyes as he was going out of the
courtroom. 4
The Colorado Mining ReUieao is adj
vised that "all over Europe men OF sci
ence and capital are making most ex-
tensive preparations for exploring the
entire mineral regions OF the Unlted
States.n
Miss HENRIETTA PARKER, colored
woman of New Britain, Conn, who
died recently, left $3.50 to be devoted
10 the religious instruction of the freed
men in Georgia. She was once Geor-
gia slave.
The bones of David Williams, one OF
the captors ofMajor Andre, have been
removed from Livingstonville, in Scho-
harie County, n. Y, to Rensselaervllle,
Albany County. 1t is now proposed to
mark the place bya suitable monument.
THE late Capt. Brown, of Newton
vile. Mass, his father and grandfather,
all died at the same age, 75 years, and
of the same disorder, in the same place,
cancer of the breast. The given name
of the three was David, and they were
ali commanders of vessels.
MEssRs. CoCKERELL & Co, the great
London coal merchants, have set apart
one of their offices where lady clerks
only are employed TO manage the ac-
counts. The hours are from to o.
clock, and the salary guinea a week.
This is done as an experiment.
A PRETTY little Ohio schoolmarm
tried to whip one of her pupils, boy OF
fifteen, the other day, but when she
commenced operations he coolly threw
his arms around her neck and gave her
a hearty kiss. She went straight back
TO her desk, and her face was lust as
red"
The TEOo Republics, published in the
City of Mexico, reports that Mrs. A. DE
Baz, pious Sister of Mercy, has dis
covered the medicinal virtues of an herb,
by the use of which she has cured lOl
cases of typhoid fever out of 1O2 cases
which she has visited. She makes no
secret of her art.
A COLLEGE professor at Burlington
thought he'd see what the boys were up
to in a sophomore's room, whence is
sued sounds of song and clinking glasses.
So he shuflled quietly down the hall in
his stocking feet, but when he struck a
small forest of tacks with the small ends
up, he hoped right back again, and
kept talking to himself for half an hour,
while he put little pieces of cOurtplaster
all over the soles of his feet.
w. III. JAhDINE, of Point Mouliere,
Mich, is said to have educated five
wild ducks to a very fine point. They
90 where and when they please, come
at call, and accompany their teacher to
the hunting grounds, either perched on
the bow of the boat or swimming by its
side. Arrived at the marshes they act
as decoys, splash and call, until they
attract flying ducks, who come down
and are shot; while the tame ducks
" stand up" in the water, shake their
wings, and scream with delight. The
days sport over, they either fly home
or ride in the boat, as Mr.. Jardine d.
reefs.
Four San Francisco boys organized
themselves into thieving association,
excluding another because he was only
twelve years old, they being about a
year older.s The excluded boy, know
ing where they intended to do their first
robbery, preceded them and got the
bottle of wine they had planned to
steal. Then they took him in, fitted up
a "robbers' cave" in a cellar, and
went out on predatory excursions until,
by selling their plumber, they had $40
in the treasury. At business meeting
they quarreled so loudly about the
dividend that a policeman overheard
them, and they were arrested.
lie HUNG CHANG, the Chinaman who
has organized the China Merchant
Steam Navigation Company, wouldn't
make a bad railroad president. He has
a fleet of over thirty steamers, built in
England, Differed by Englishmen, and
manned by Chinese. He gets bonus
on every pound of rice brought from the
South for the imperial graneries, six
times as large as that for which Ameri-
can or English steamers would carry it.
In addition to this, &c out of every l0C
tons of rice his line carries can pass the
Custom House free. Notwithstanding
the immensely of the rice traffic, it is
clear that lie Hung Chang has very
"soft thing"
AN Italian director of a lunatic asylum
believes that he has discovered a very
powerful remedy for many cases of lu
macy in the violet raw of the solar light
color which is believed to have ;
soothing influence, very beneficial TO
all who are suffering under nervous eX
element. DIR. Ponza had some soutl
rooms painted violet, with numerou
windows of the same color, in which h,
kept several patients, with the follow
inc results: lone of them, affected
with morbid taciturnity, became ga,
and affable after three hours stay il
a red chamber; another, maniac, VIII,
refused all food, asked for some break
fast after having stayed twenty-fou
hours in the same red chamber"
A REMARKABLE case was decided il
the New York Supreme Court few
days ago. Josephine Ash brought suit
through her guardian, against Henri.
Aston, one of the well known Asto
family, for 500, 600 damages for assault
alleging that, in 1869, Aston violentl,
pushed plaintiff, then only four year
old, from chair, causing such injurie
as to cripple her for life. Her fathe
testified that the girls backbone wa
around her hips, and that she was com
PEELED to go around the house on all
fours; and that she is now unable +
walk or care for herself in any way
and that Mr.. Astor made him promis
not to tell any body, saying he woult
put $4,000 in the bank for the child
which he never did. The jury found
verdict for plaintiff for the full amour
claimed, and the Court added $500
for costs.
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