The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-02-08
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.


is at Bordeaux.
After a long sleigh ride order beefsteak
and fried onions.
Boston Adu5tj,er :-"Ode TO a washerwo-
mani, 90"
Goethe There are two peaceful powers
Justice and fitness"
Coffee and black bread are the staple diet
OF the German peasant.
In Meriden new twenty-five pound baby
has an eishty-fve pound mother.
A Connecticut man claims to have the
sled that Governor Hayes used when boy.
Mr.. Carlyle has never, in theory at least,
raised his voice in favor OF an incapable
ruler.
Ole Bull is said to have turn-up nose
Swedish turn-up,-Iatesoa Press. Nose,
sir; its Norwegian.
Lacrosse Free Pres :-"Solitaires are well
enough in diamonds, bat when it comes to
pancakes man reaches for clusters"
Southern papers are beginning TO show
want OF confidence in those Democrats
whom they call ~our Northern allies"
Some New York candies are hsppy and
Jolly Until they begin 10 shrink. Then
they go down like the Ashtabula bridge.
The Photographers Association will have
their first meeting in July within the
Mammoth Cave, as sort OF yswniDg sar-
chssm.
When Dr. Schliemsnn was 4 broker IN
San Francisco he used 10 dig into a cock
tail until he found the piece Of lemon, and
then he felt all-overish.
The infant daughter OF the Japanese
Minister Is named "Siumi" Soon it will
begin to suck its "sfumi," and then the
New York C0lamereiQL will make pun.
A physical recovery Of Palestine con-
Germs the children OF Israel mainly; an
historical recovery of Palestine affects the
whole community OF Christian men.
The Memphis AudldRcLc declares that a
half dozen executions are needed TO i'm
press just regard Tor law upon the crimi-
nal class there.
The clerical and Iaboring force of the
San Francisco custOm-house has been great
ly reduced, under direction Of an agent
from Washington.
Rat-skins are coming into prominence as
an article OF commerce at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
One dealer has bought, within a few
months, $1,000 pelts.
The Touring mills of Winona, MIMI.
manufactured one hundred and thirty nine
thousand four hundred and ffty-three
barrels OF flour last year.
The firm Of Linfuth Kellogg & Co., hard
ware and agricultural implement dealers,
of San Francisco, failed the other day for
S250,O00. Assets $4,000.
Buffalo has q sos pupils in its schools
registered; average attendance, i,525
teachers, 353. This gives the Buffalo
teachers an average number of Al pupils.
The Grand Orient of France reports four
hundred and one lodges in its jurisdiction.
The total number of Freemasons in the
country is set at five hundred thousand.
The new suspension bridge over the
Mississippi at Minneapolis has been so far
completed as to allow the passage of street
cars over it. 1t will be ready TO bear gen.
eral traffic shortly.
The skeleton of whale on exhibition in
San Jose, Cal, weighs six Thousand five
hundred pounds; he weighed, when killed,
seventy-fve tons. Believed TO have been a
centenarian.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Senate providing that the capital
sbOSk vi lie, uIt, anu marine INSURANCE.
campanies shall be liable TO taxation,
equally with bank capital.
A man at Bozeman, NJ. T., drank a pint
Of coal oil with suicidal intent, the other
day. An emetic converted HIM into a pc
troleum well, with flowing capacity Of
four barrels day.
The residents of Woodbine township,
Harrison county, Iowa, have been holding
Indignation meetings because farmer
there keeps nineteen dogs, which he allows
TO run at large.
Nearly all the Touring mills in Minnea-
polls shut down their gates on Saturday
evening, and therefore reinforced the army
OF unemployed people TO the number Of
three hundred or more. The flour manu-
fsctuers are determined that they will not
resume business until they can do so with
prospect of fair and reasonable compensa-
ton and profit.
1t Is rumored that eastern parties have
been examining the lay OF the land between
Eau Claire and Wabasha, with view TO q
speedy construction OF a railroad which is
10 connect the two places.
A petition to the Wisconsin legislature is
being circulated in the towns OF Glencoe,
asking to be set off from Buffalo county and
annexed to Trempealeau county.
Massachusetts men are exact and con-
scientious. One of them the other day
died rathel than take four soda crackers
for a cent while another town was giving
five.
There are only abou: fifty Cinnamon at
Beaver Falls, Pa, now. These are all en-
gagged in the cutlery works. The Others
who were there completed their labor con-
tracts, and have gone elsewhere in search OF
employment.
Mr.. Burlingame, of Green Lake county, |
Wis, has been commanded by the circuit |
court to pay Mrs. Whitford 5000 damages |
for breach of promise and costs OF suit, |
which, with attorneys fees, amounts to So
600 more.
All railway employees in the Midland |
line in England submit to an examination |
10 ascertain whether they are color-blind. |
A fatal accident recently occurred from a
train-man's mistsking the color of a switch |
light.
Mr.. Alexander Mcclure complacently
publishes newspaper paragraph, compsr-
ing himself with the Rev. Mr.. Talmsee,
tWo
places without a peroeptible difference in
effect =
Croizette, the famous French actress, de-
lights IN the birth of a daughter; and her
speedy return 10 the stage, from which she
has been too long absent, is announced. A
distinguished General OF royal lineage has
asked permission 10 give his name to the
child.
In his fourth lecture on preaching at
Yale, DR.. Brooks said: "The preacher
should let people understand the difference
between the authority of his message and
his manner of presenting it. We need
frankness to say this is Gods truth this is
what think Gods truth"
The Portfolio thinks that persons in these
times are beginning to estimate an artist
very much by his style of living. If his
brush can give him fine establishment, he
is considered great painter. He begins
to struggling for existence he ends, when
successful, by struggling for splendor.
TO entertain or amuse," says the Phila-
delphis Press in the sagacious manner of
Bunsby, sis the primal air of dramatic rep
resen;ation; its mission is to instruct" This
orscular utierance calls up the distinction
proper to be made between an "aim" and
mission" which can only be appreciated
BY q marksman who has aimed at the bulls ,
eye and "missioned" the outer.
A number of noble tramps at Logan, O.. /,
vere lately ordered to prepare for vork N