The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-06-28
Clippings.

The Kansas Central Railroad, narrow
guage, running out of Leavenworth, is
| to be extended al once West from Holton.
Three castor beans strung on o silk
thread and hung around your neck will
prevent cholera if you draw the thread
tight enough.
The girls say there is too much collar
and cane, and too little young man about
the average beau still they arc better
than nobody.
The locusts have "W" on their wings.
The liquor men say it means whiskey,
and the temperance men say it means
watcr-and you can pay your money
and take your choice.
An Elgin old maid had her pocket
picked Of $40 few evenings since. To
accomplish the job the thief had to put
his armt around her waist, and as she
had not been Rugged for several years,
she expressed herself rather well salts
fed with having had to pay so llttle for
it. This was from an exchange, and re-
ferring to it tho Aurora News says it
makes n pretty good story, but it don't
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reach around an Elgin girls waist.
The following hints how to keep a
house cool during the hot weather, will
be found useful: Open your windows
between six and seven O'Clock in the
morning for ventilation, and then close
them as also the blinds, and keep
them closed all day. A house should be
regulated like refrigerator, which, if
the doors arc kept shut, will retain its
GOODNESS, but if it is thrown open will
soon have the Same temperature as the
air without. Sensible and philosophical
reasoning, this.
The New Orleans Times does not like
the Manhattan Club speeches, and says
of Mr.. Tilden: "Mr. Tilden can pass
on too oblivion without anxiety. The
people of the hanlets know the duty of
a patriot as well, if not better than he,
and will do it quito as well without his
voice as with it," 1t says further that
Mr.. Tildcn's space IN history will be
brief paragraph giving the name Of an
unsuccessful candidate, who immediate
ly afterward fell into the obscurity al
lotted TO failures.
Tho French vines have become the
victims Of over cultivation. Their con-
stitutons have become weak, and they
are unable to resist the ravages of the
phyloxera which has for years preyed
upon them with increasingly deleter-
ious effect. No remedy has yet been
discovered, and as last resort Ameri-
can vines, which have thus far been
proof against the insect, are TO be sub
stitutcd for the original French stock.
Whether as good q wine can be produced
in this way remains to be seen, but it is
probable that Americans can drink as
much pure champaign as they have been
in the habit of doing.
A story ike this is told about Mr..
Moody. He wanted the woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union to change its
name to the Women's Evangelical TEN
pcrance Union. 1t is said that when the
ladies asked why" he replied, $50
SIS to get rid of your Unitarian and Uni
versallst members" "But that will rule !
out Mrs LIvermore, our President"
said they. "Well, rule her out" was
the response, "she isn't Christian"
The ladies declined to follow Mr. Moody's |
Ocean.
Hero comes President Hayes in the /
footsteps of Mr.. Lincoln, with his "little /
story" Hc says his present embarrass-
ments remind him of Mrs. Hayes diem
ma when she first went to Housekeeping.
There was large family, and when the
eggs were brought in for breakfast, one
that they were boiled too
bard another that they were too SOFT and
another thought they should only be
warmed through. This went on for sew
,ral days, till at last Mrs. Hayes got
tired, and summoning the farm boy,
laid "John We have had enough eggs
his season set the hens" "Now, adds
he president, CHATS just the way with
ny policy; it's too hard for some, and
is too soft for others, and what bothers
ne is how TO set the ens."-Illustrated
Weekly.