The Morning herald., 1877-11-16
ITEMS or INTEREST.

i ITEMS OF INTEREST.
1 AChinese lawyer has been admitted
1 The London Bar.
Some sixty Indians are still prisoners 1
: the fort at st. Augustine. Fla.
People that beggars can't put up with
!, Hotel-keepers.
J Better to have loved q Ghort Qirl thai
, never to have loved tall. I
"Jane, II Is eleven o clock. Tell tha,
young man to shut the front door from thu
outside"
The cheating butcher will have his pun.
ishment meted out to him in another
world. ..t.. r. Z ~
"What looks neater than calico i-Ns,
Orleans hcayunL The girl rlinside Of it.
New York wants Cleopatra's Needle 10,
0 sewer.
The police are said to bs like the rainbow,
because they never appear until after the
storuL
Mamma, do you know what the largest
species OF ants arp You shake your head.
Well, III toll you They are elephants"
The Boston Globe says there Is no such
word as "can't." Certainlv not. Ira
''cahn't."
The curfew has baen tolled every even.
ing for 700 years at Sandwich, England,
but it yet gives no evidence Of being con.
vinced.
The English used to say, "Scratcha Rus
sian and you find Tartar" Now the
Russians say, ''Scratck an Englishman and
you find Turk"
The editor of the Franklin (Ky.) Patriot
says that when he started for the den-
lists the other day, he took q tooth-hurty
gait.
Puck says that the women who be-
ieve they are entitled to all the side
walk must dodge little for a paint
Az
M Robbery.-A bachelor editor, who
had pretty unmarried sister, lately wrote
to one similarly eumstanoed, ''Please ex-
change"
The UniteN States can ''point with pride"
to the fact ttas in the last four years, with.
in their borders, 1890, 600 bushels Of pea
nuts were harvested.
The eucalyptus trees planted at Nice
have prevented, during the last two years,
the malarial fevers usual in that city.
The Swiss Government announces that
the St. Gothard tunnel will be finished by |
1881, fully year In advance Of the period
originally set. D.. .s. n
Texas might be out up into i've States
ss large as Illinois, each containing over
Is, 600 square miles, and an early move
nent toward this end Is now predicted.
A Sacramento jeweler has tame mouse
which takes position in bis show window
md catches flies - discounting the best
,atent fypaper In the market.
The Chinese language Is spoken by about
$50, 900, coo people. The English Ian
yuage is spoken from 80, ooo, 600 to 85,oOo,.
700. ....
The beach at Galveston is the largest and
,roadest in the world, extending twenty five
niles, forming the unbroken tide of the
1ulf of Mexico on the south and east.
They are at work now on the Straits Of
Dover tunnel. The tunnel will belong to
Is proprieton for thirty years; then the
wo Governments will be able to take pos
ession of II on certain conditions. l.
Four steel steamers of light draught
ave been ordered from England by the
Egyptian Government, for use on Lake
lbert Nyanza, and for opening the navi-
alton of central African rivers.
A Shaker community at Pleasant Hill,
~, has been almost broken up. First a
oung couple eloped, next an elderly pair
ent the same way, and within month
inc more marriages have occurred.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, keeps lodging honse Z
I'd breakfast table for tramps; also,
lie of stones, where the tramp must rem d
u an equivalent, enabling him to leave T
wn with AN easy conscience. o
A mother and daughter In Atchison,
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