The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1879-09-27
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/, The home of the Caesars The Custom
House. ~ $50 asao5 -
England is full of foreign princes visit
ing at country houses.
The late Sir Rowland Hill had d COLI
lection of postage stamps worth S6, 900.
An Augusta (Ga.1 man is training. q
pack of hounds to take to the North and
give exhibitions. f t..ss
The number of reed and blackbirds
shipped from Salem, N. j.. alone during
one week was 4, III dozen, or 80, l23blrdss
There has been grown at Pulaski, Ky.s
a ripe watermelon three inches long, an
inch and a half in diameter and contain
ing iYe seeds. A ~ sess'}
II am astonisEed, my dear young lady,
at your sentiments you make me start =
( 8. Well; ;sir, I've been waiting for you to-
start for the last hour. Z iss. 80 xs
+ When someone with bad taste raised,
q laugh against Foote on account OF MS
hat step, he turned fereelv on his tor
mentor and squelched him with the curt
query Why attack my weakest part Z
Did ever ridicule your headP%
a bald-headed professor, removing. q
youth for the exercise of his fists, said
g We fight with our heads in this col
lege." The young man reflected q mo-,
merlt, and then replied, All, see; and
you have butted all your hair OF. )"
A Young American, the son of Mrs.
Gen. Viele. of New York has distin-
guished himself at the College Stanislaus,
in Paris, having talaane the grand prize
for the Concours at 4ife serbonRes and
thirteen others, including first Greek and
Latin. 'i $3.50 4 aAi i
The tenacity with whichtoads cling to
life is well exemplified in the case CT one
which was resurrected from catchs
basin on Chapel street, in New Haven.
After a seven years Imprisonment in
solid cement this toad, Whsn relieved
from his surroundings, hoped of just
as if nothing unusual had happened. 8 3
Al Kansas genius. representing himself
as a practical farmer, visited the fairs in
that State with prize pumpkin, and he
took the premiums every tiIne. Inc
pumpkin measured seven feet in circum-
ference and weighed $50 pounds. A
farmer attempted to tap the pumpkin in
the absence of its owner, to get some OF
the seeds, and discovered that it was
made of wood.
A mob broke into Jail at Pentonville,
Neb., took out Barney Thomas, a horse
thief, and started for convenient tree to
hang him on 1t happened that q party
OF Barteyss friends were lurking IN the
neighborhood, having made an inef-
fectual attemLt to get him out Of the
prison. They fell upon the Iynchers
suddenly, rescued the prisoner and es-
capped with him. 9e
Swiss colonies at Greenviile, S. c., and
on CUMBERLAND mountain, Tenn, have
| had wonderful success The latter set
| tied in 1878 and consists OF ll5 families
and abotit seven hundred souls who
purchased 10000 acres of land at 81 per
acre. Each family finds itself now in q
comfortable home with good income.
They have dairy and cheese = ctories in
successful operation, their products ind
ing ready sale at fancy priees..los 10
"How much for pearP" asked.
and with a chAckle paid thA1
demanded. Then came
only took a Daiir,,s exli
articles. And whats
/ the joke,
extra cef
Rev. A AZ 4 s
| is a good 81
day when retS E1tl
well-filled ganne-d 1aker,
who accosted him With, Friend Viii
Tits, it seems to me that q bird has g
fright to live until its time has come to
die.n The reverend gentleman answered
g Friend, you and agree perfectly; but
| I find that generally when | get my gun
trained on bird its time to die has