The Morning herald., 1877-11-13

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hasty retreat. Worcester Gazette.
Santa Barbara, California, is the prou
possessor of little bunch Of grapes weigh
ing 125 pound. It is three feet long an
six in circumference. These grapes mos
likely are sour. a'.InaIy1 WE =
i "Oh, that piano, next door!" A ne,
police regulation at Weimar, Germany
prohibits the opening Of windows d,,rin
pianoforte practicing under penalty of tw,
marks. Happy Weimar! ftI-
Amissing Kentucky jpror, !. was Is found b,
! the Sheriff ten miles away, cutting tobacco
He said he thought he would save his croI
from the threatened frost, and let them pu
some Iother fellow IN his place.
Any tinsmith will tell you that two Joint.
lf six-inch stove pipe IF exactly the same
size must and can and shall fit into each
other without the least trrubie.
II have lost my appetite" said gigantic
friend to ySpodgrsss the other day II
hope, 7 repied Snodgfass, 'thNt no poo,
man has found it, for it would run him in
Q week."
It Is the oyster dealers who start these
little paragraphs about Mrs. So and 30 find
ing $500 pearl in an oyster. ,, One
can hardly help buying four cans 1t
0nCe. A't ~
An exchange says: 'Don't tell O mar
ried man any joke on the boys, for he'll
tell his wife, his wife will tell her sister,
and the sister will tell all the rest of the
girls" .'...
The country will breathe easier when it
learns that the 81, 900 greenbsck Of 1885,:
is all right. There are no countsrfeits 40
reported, and there should be no hesitation
bout taking them in change.
A little girl who had great kindness OF
heart for all the animal creation, saw her
preparing to gather her chickens under her
wings, and shouted earnestly, ''Oh dom,
sit down on these beautiful birds you great
ugly rooster" .u.. ..'.
Miss Helen Taylor complains that men
make eating too much of pleasure
Would the talented lady have us sit down il
sack k-cloth to our hashes, shed tears over
steaks and onions and howl aloud ''Brother.
we must de-" at the sight of calf's
headp
She used to keep bits of broken chine
and crockery piled up in a convenient cor
ner Of the closet, and when asked her rea. |
son for preserving such domestic lumber,
'he would shoot lucid glance at her hus-
band, and merely remark, 'He knowe
what them's for"
The Fitness of Things country paper.
n speaking of the good things of the town
where it is published, says: 1--WE are proud
# the impressively solemn appearance of
'ur undertakers. A smiling undertaken
5 hideous incubus on the growth of the
lace"
The Pottsville Pa.) Miners Journal
makes an earnest protest against the barred
7indows Of the passenger cars on the Phila-
elphia and Reading Railroad, as calculated
increase greatly the danger of destruc-
on to human life in case of the cars taking
re. ~, ..''.,.
The distance of the earth from the sun.
given by the reduction of the contact
bservations of the transit of Venus by the
ritish expeditions is SO, 800, 900 miles. The
Photographic observations are yet to be
scussed; but this result is somewhat
rger than was expected. . .Y
The longest bridge in the world is, over
iver Tay, on the line of the North British
ailway. It is 10, l42 feet long, and has
st been completed at an expense of $s,-f
10000. There are s5 spans The ceIe-
ated bridge at Montreal is G, 1914, or, with
'proaches, 9,194 feet. 1tN
An old-fashioned Indian marriage amuyi
,mmi Indians in Oregon was consum-
ated recently. The young man gave the
aiden's parents four canoes, $15o in
'ney, rife, two shot guns, and other
plements of war. These are all to be re-
Ened to him when he satisfies the parents
Bt he Is worthy of their 1auohtar. 4al b.