The Morning herald., 1877-01-10

--ye lslet 10 knowne by Ill rockies
that be pushed up like LII needles from ye
sande.
"Ralpie Brandon"
Five days aflerward Brandon, with his
Hindu servant, was sailing out ofthe Mer-
sey River on his way to Quebec.
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Here and There.
Tom Thumb is good billiard player.
Strawberrie, are ripe in Santa Cruz,
Cal.
Grants entire family is at the White
House.
The terrier is again the fashionable purp
in Paris.
Betsy Hendrickson, of New Haven,
celebrated her 10th birthday yesterday.
Thought all Bets were of?
Prince Leopold is again suffering from
swelling in the knee, Of more serions
character than the previous attack.
New Workers are getting generous. The
Tribune" acknowledges the receipt of
half dollar "for the starving poor Of
Servia."
Susan B. Anthony is trying to revive
her dead Revolution" q paper which
sunk $4,000 for her several years ago.
spunky Susan!
Ladies who can't afford costly furs now
wear thin lace scarf about their necks,
evidently on the ground that it is a chin
chiller.
The New York "Herald" says Pa
risian has invented a method of sending
photographs by telegraph. All he has to
do is to send negative"
The lady who had seven gentlemen
callers on Sunday evening, quietly re-
marked that she was inclined to appoint
Returning Board and count some of them
out.
A man in New Haven had to take a
pole and poke 261 striped snakes out OF
his drain the other day, before water would
run through it. This sounds scaly, but
it's snaked truth.
For the first time in the history of jour-
naism at the Capital the press is repre-
sented by celored man. He furnishes
news to a Philadelphia newspaper and to
one printed in Lexington, Ky.
The recently exhumed body of an old
woman, who died twenty years ago, at
Laconia, N. H., was petrifed though the
body of her husband, which lay KY her
side had turned to dust.
A girl at Sunderland, England, while
running to look at funeral, fell down, and
hairpin ran into one Of the apertures OF
the splne through which the nerves pass,
causing inflammation Of the spine, and ul.
Innate death.
A letter, with no stamp affixed, but ad-
dressed to "Santa Claus" was dropped into
the Akron, Ohio, post office, several days
ago. 1t vas signed by "Annie and Alice"
and told the patron saint Of childhood
what the petitioners wanted for Christmas
At the last meeting of the Greenock
School Board report was adopted recI m-
mending "that in the selection Of songs and
hymns for the schools few songs in praise
Of temperance be included, with view to
the sentiments they contain being impress
ed on the minds Of the children.
;hWool growing is very profitable IN Geor-
gia. One sheep owner has flock Of $500
sheep which cast him annually about four.
teen cents head, while the yield Of wool
is about three pounds each, worth thirty
cents pound.
Several weeks ago young man in Oak
land, CAL, came very near putting cut his
eye while taking off his shirt, the spiral
portion of the stud catching under the lid.
lie was confined to the house for three
weeks, under the treatment of an ocnlist,
and his eye saved, though the escape was
q narrow one.
An East Bridgeport woman noticed her
husband blowing his breath Justify against
the windows, and could not account for it
until she took up paper he had laid down
and there read that "incrustations of frost
upon window glass can be prevented by the
application Of alcohol"
A very singular and distressing accident
occurred at Palmyra, Mo-, recently: which
resulted in the death Of little child OF
Nr, Hickman. 1t had been left on bed
BY itself, and in trying to get of, slid be-
tween the rail and foot.board. the chin
catching on the foot board, while the body
hung down. Whs,l found Y was enitrsly