Morris tribune., 1881-03-10
ElcfS and EaneiaS

There is nothing, says a Western writer,
that concerns people less and in which they
take greater interest than the marriage of
others
CteUe.ana Leader.-- When man COM
mits nun der in Kentucky he throws down
his revolver and exclaims. ''I'm crazy as
a cricket" Then the jury soothingly re-
marks, Excuse us, sir, for suspecting you
of an unlawful action" .......
Everybody in New York, from the be-
jeweled heiresses on Fifth avenue to the
bootblack and rag-pickers of Chatham
| street, is singing the song "All ON account
of Eliza" from the new operatta, "Billee
| Taylor which promises to rival Pima
fore in popularity.
| A straightforward boy returning from
school at the end of the week handed TO his
father his weekly report. $50, my son,
you stand number twenty seven in your
class. How many does the class contain?"
Twenty seven, sir, was the boys reply,
and the father admired his frankness The
following week the report placed the lad
number twenty nine. How is this?" the
father inquired I thought there were only
twenty seven in the class" "Ah, sir, two
new boys came in this week."
One of the best attested cases of extreme
longevity is that of Mrs. Elizabeth Tread
well Weston, of Peterboro. N. H., who eel
ebrated her one hundred and third birth
day at Greenfield on February Is. It has
been maintained with much pains and in
genuity that there is no proof that any per-
son in modern times have lived to the age
of 100 years; but most persons believe that
overwhelming evidence exists to upset this
theory In the case of Mrs. Weston the
family records are very clear. According
to these, she was born February Is, ITS,
in Peterboro' and married Abel Weston in
1896. Five of her children are now living,
the eldest of them, Deacon Samuel Weston,
in his eighty fifth year.
Not long since an English gentleman
stopping at the st. Lawrence Hall Hotel in
Montreal, became interested in young
news girl who sold papers there, and find
ing that she was the only child of a
widowed mother, gave the latter $500 as he
was leaving the city, and told her to send
the child to school and he would see that
she did not want. Instead of doing this, the
mother got married, used the money and
put the girl to service. Hearing this the
gentleman sent money to the lady who en-
ployed the girl, and the latter is now obtain
ing first class education at the Model
school.
A preliminary report upon the silk manu-.
facture of the United States has heen is
sued by the census Office, which shows
that the total value of the finished goods for
the year ending June 80, 1880, was 1884, 41O, :
1853; number of factories, 1888; amount of
capital (real and personaD invested, $18,-
S99, 500; looms, S,467. The greatest num-
Der Of hands employed at any one time dur.
ing the year was "a ,44O, and the total
amount paid in wages So, 10Y, 1886.
This is the way lady writes to the pa
per concerning social ostracism: $50 long
as an unmarried woman has moderately
comfortable home and works merely to in
crease her stock of white satin slippers, her
social position remains unimpaired; but let
that home be broken up, let the same young
woman from dire necessity continue that
same occupation or trade in order to earn
her daily bread, and she is Immediately be-
yond the pale"