, 1876-11-17
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Turt-y rul.lleTs-.hs great pos-
ers q EuHT's.
A msn's rrputaiioa &c sobfiety
oit.u hanrs up,ua lreath.
G-urrs Francis Trsin seems 70 have
been entirely Out Of the late cam
paign
Memphis is To have = rope factory,
a thing much needed in many other
places in the Union.
Going to bed late is greatly on the
increase in this country and 30 is the
saphead population. y
A daring English scientist comes
forward and says that the center Of
the earth is not in a mOlteHf state.
II that war doesn't come on in
Europe what shall we have TO talk
about after election returns are in?
The Black Hills miners are all do
ing banking business these days
banking up their log huts for winter.
The average city swell can pick his
teeth Just as stylishly on 5-cent din
ner as on one that costs dollar.
The smallness of the Havana to-
bacco crop will not affect the price
Of cigars so long as the cabbage crop
holds out.
The Hawaiian parliament has vo-
ted King Kalakua $4,000 to cover
the expenses incurred by his trip to
the United States.
Last Tuesday Mr.. Ole Bull began
to draw the bow on his third and last
farewell tour of America, in Boston.
Another growing distress of. our
afflicted country is the overweening
desire Of certain classes Of society to
get something for nothing.
The money y'left by visitors in Phil
adelphia for accommodations and
amusements this year is estimated to
have been not less than $95,000,000.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who went to
Europe to escape the horde of claim
ants aud beggars which besieged her
after her husbands death, has return
ed to New York.
1t has been ascertained that there
are 960 women in the United States
who professionally practice astrology
on gumbrained idiots at dollar and
half head
This world is not so bad a world
as politics would like to make it.
When sick Savannah asked the North
for help she got it, with prayer for
her recovery sticking to every penny.
The Fish Culturists' Association
recently in session at Philadelphia
was treated to fish dinner at one Of
the restaurants on the Exhibition
grounds, the meal consisting of So
varieties Of fish.
A Welsh widow, as she was turn
ing away from her dead husbands
open grave, received a whispered
offer Of marriage; but she softly re-
piled that she had already accepted
another offer as she was going into
the church.
When S. Benners, of Philadelphia,
remarked, the other day, that he
knew all about Charley Ross and his
whereabouts, he was taken at his
word, and is now under arrest in that
city charged with being concerned in
: the abduction.
Some of the New York correspon-
dents to California journals are get
ting into the vicious habit of con-
costing sensational literary drink,
composed of divorce stories, theatri-
cal quarrels, society scandal and inn
possible stories-all out of their own
noddles-and sending them out az a
solid compound of facts.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
the largest autograph album in the
world. It has 502,S4 names. The
prominent ladies of Great Britain
signed an appeal to the women of
America in 1912 on the slavery
question, and intrusted it to Mrs.
Ssowe, who has preserved it in 26
volumes. Amy one who may wish to
peruse the work will be granted the
privilege.