Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-02
INTEREsTiNG READING.

INTERESTING READING.
81 A San Francisco clergyman advertised Q
Sermon entitled 1.-THE Boss Devil Of Amer
5ca," meaning intemperance.
When honest John Sherman sits down to
consult his conscience, lac feels a good deal
like man playing ouchre with a dummy.
II mean business said burglar who
entered Mr.. Patterson's h1nSe. IN Sterling,
Ill. so do /, !" said Mr.. Patterson, as he
shot him through the head.
A correspondent writes from Parma:
There's always something TO charm the
eye, delight the ear, and stir the soul in
Italy. The introduction Of the scrubbing
brush would make it paradise.
Pastor Thomas preached, in the Luth-
eran Church OF Newport, Ohio, that there
was no hell. The trustees met immedi-
I ately after the services, and adopted res
ulution requesting him TO resign.
Vera Sassulitch, the heorine of the re-
tent famous trial at st. Petersburg, has
been the prominent character at the annual
gingerbread fair, held in PARIS during
Easter week. and all the female figures in
gingerbread received the name OF the
Russian damsel. The Gar. Theirs and
I Napoleon were favoritc representations, but
Il Vera carries away the palm for novelty.
Elan Potter Is gushing wheelbarrow
z from Albany to San Francisco. He wears
sery long hair and whiskcrs, and the
wheclbarrow is gaudily painted. so that his
arrival in village causes excitement. He
& goes to u hotel, as previously arranged,
and crowd follows. Business at the bar is
Brisk while he stays, and he gets a share
zpf the profit. Probably his journey will
Terminate at the western limit OF civiliza-
8tions and barrooms.
More co-onarative associations exist in
Paris than II generally supposed. At re
cent banquet, twenty societies were repre-
sented, viz: Furniture carvcrs. coach.
makers, shomakers, two societies Of work
crs in tin, typographers, musical imstru-
I ment makers, laundry workers, marble
workers. joinefs, opticians, house painters,
piano makers tailors, clothing cutters,
and two companies Of file makers.
English Prime Ministers have rarely
been very rich men, and some have been
quite the reverse. Pitt never married.
and declared that he couldn't afford it, and
Canning and Disracli were bolstered up by
wealthy wives. The late Lord Derby and
Sir Robert Peel are about the only in
stances OF very wealthy Prime Ministers,
though Lord Melbourne was very well off.
Lord Paimerston only became so late in
life through rise in mineral property.
His wife, too, succeeded to her brother
Lord Melbourne's estate.
The most venerable couple in Texas.
perhaps in the country, are Mr.. and Mrs.
Robinson, Of Mountain City. He il re-
puted to be I03, and she l02 years old, and
they were married in Kentucky SO years
ago. Mr.. Robinson says he never swore
but one OATH has never borrowed but fifty
cents, and never gave a note. He and his
wife are like children in their devotion TO
each other. and after any separation shed
tears on meeting. Recently they we're
presented with comfortable house ly a
generous ntighbor.
The temperance people Of Jersey City, in
their zeal to make known the amount Of
good accomplished, say that some fifty
reformed drunkards attended church last
sunday" One OF the number takes excep-
ton to being styled reformed drunkard
aud the Jersey City Journal remarks Of
the temperance workers They should
not report more reformations than are ac-
tually accomplished, and the next time a
body of living examples is marched to
church IL will be well TO separate the sheep
from the goats before theprocession starts''
Charles X. Williams has just been sem
fenced, in Portsmouth, N. H., to three
years imprisonment. His criminal ca
reer is remarkable. During the war he
was notorious bounty jumper and was
sentenced TO be shot, but Lincoln changed
the penalty to imprisonment for life. and
johnson pardoned him. Afterward he
served several terms for bigamy and as
saults. In his intervals OF freedom he was
public singer, a clown in n circus and n
Methodist clergyman. In the latter char
acter he was successful ~ reviyalist, his
sermons and singing being wonderfully
effective with sinners. He was always able
to get good pay in the form OF collections,
and. having secured a sufficient sum, he
went to some large city to spend it in de-
bauchery.
San Stefano, which recent treaty has
made historical, was originally colony of
fishermen, founded by Neapolitan emf
grants, whose descendants still live there
and sell fish and oysters. II is delight
fui retreat, which in summer attracts for
eign merchants and Turkish functionaries.
1t Is embellished with artistic little palaces.
and delights in n well appointed hotel.
The village Is situated little above the
level OF the sea, and upon an expansive
plain remarkably prolific Of vegetation
A railroad connects San Stefano with Con-
stantinople, which Is reached in half an
hour. The cars traverse the most pictur-
esque quarter of the city, that inhabited
by Bulgarian gardeners and Greek arti-
sans. At the station of Yonikale the trav-
eier sees the ruins Of wall which Of old
anrrounded Byzantinm, and the Castle Of
the Seven Towers, where Padscia once
conhned the representatives Of the foreign
powers that had offended the Sublime
for.e. ~ does not seem that any Turks
settle at San Stefano. No bars are seen
upon the windows, an evident indication
that the harem Is not in xnpife there.