The Evening critic., 1882-02-03
How's your vaccination?


Hows your vaccination?
The moaning tied-married people.
Tennessee dog fght-Six men killed.
Barnum is said to be worth $3,000,000.
Stands to reason-the inveterate debater.
Denis Kearney is opening his mouth
| again.
Strawberries are $3.50 quart in Flor
ida.
Florida has open-air fsh-frying soci-
ables.
The ice cream crop is poor, but respect
able.
Long waists are to give away to short
ones.
Up to January 1. the fund for the relic
| of the Vienna sufferers amounted to Si0o,
| 600.
More than two hundred books and PAM
phlets are produced jim Paris every
week.
| A drunken woman, arrested in New
York, said she had just been making O New
Years call.
St. Louis German named Kaiser was
made crazy few days ago by witnessing an
| execution.
Happy is the italian immigrant who
owns long blue cloak and light green
umbrella.-N Y. Herald.
|
he is always in the right is the one who is
known to be ignorant and narrow.
A ST. Louis girl has slept continuously
for four months. Probably there's nothing
in that town worth waking up TO see.
A Montana man went out hunting and
shot I07 buffaloes, which is considered the
biggest killing yet made by one man.
The slopes forming the base of the Sierra
Nevada range are said to be adapted to the
growing of the finest fruit in the Union.
Sympathetic; II feel for you deeply"
said the hungry man, probing about in the
soup bowl for stray oyster. .-BradfOrd
Star.
An auroral display so brilliant as to cast
distinct shadows of objects upon the snow
was observed at Phelps, n Y, on the 10Th
inst.
At some of the English hotels where
fruit is served at dinner, pears are cut in
slices, the understanding being that each
guest may take one piece.
A correspondent writes that the Singer
of the Simple Sunflower is mentioned in
the Oxford University Calendar as "Oscar
Fingall O'Flahertie Willis Wild"
North Carolina planters, too, are waking
up to the advantages of diversified farming,
and much more grain than usual has been
sown in the State for the next harvest.
Clerks in the French government Offices,
only get an average salary of about 500,
and consequently there is not such a dis
graceful scramble for Office as in the United
States.
Western prices are curious sometimes. In
Miles City, Montana, corn is forty cents a
bushel and eggs ten cents apiece. The
hired girl demands $40 week with every
! Sunday out.
The town Of Cobourg in Canada is so
| trnnhla1 cit ty fni
have appointed two days in which a general
} poisoning of the rodents is to take place by
means of phosphorus.
'sMake Somebody Glad" urges recent
poem. Hundreds ofyoung men can comply
with this request by simply bidding her
! goodnight two or three hours earlier on
Sunday nights.-Norristopn Herald.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
awarded prizes amounting to $2,2l5 to
supervisors and foreman of the various di.
visions between Philadelphia and Pittsburg
as incentives to diligence in keeping its
road bed in good condition.
The present freshman class at Harvard Is
said to be distinguished for three things
1t is the smallest class that has entered the
; college for several years; its scholarship il
3 unusually high, and its members have re-
fused to follow the custom of attending a
. theatre in body and there disgracing
} themselves.
!, Fouryears ago a Canadian farmer went
to ManRoba and took up some land. Hay
= ing performed his settling duties he re-
= turned to his old home, with the intention
. of going back again, but did not. An.
+, other party settled on the same lot, and
has since sold it to a third person for $50,
! COO town having been laid out on the
:. land.
A correspondent Of the Ohio Farmer ha
| diepANnpQH IA al
q play so great havoc among currant bushes
D. The ordinary black ant is an inyeteratl
, enemy of the currant worm. He encOur
= ages ant colonies near the bushes, and tn,
!, result has been that while his neighbor
4 had few or no curraDts, his crop wa
? abundant.
y "You would hear, dare say" said Mr.
q M'Lachlan, what happened to our brothe
/, from the Sound when he was preaching a
y KilmOre? You know he is ferry fond O
g preaching eXtampore, and when he wen
>. into the yestry he said 10 the elders, :
~ really do not know what TO preach apout
= sayshe. Do you not know, says Tunell
> M'Tayish,' one of the elders, what b
- preach apouty No, | do not reall Y
!, Well, them says runean, 'shust preac
4 about five minutes; II i'll pc enough"
The harbor commissioners Of Sll
x Francisco have made the unpleasant dis
coyeiy that the piles Of the sea val at tina
:. port are rapidly being destroyed by th
!. teTedo, some OF them being completed.
eaten of. This is found 10 be the case witt
, piles that have been down but a little inor
than two years As there are upward u
$4,000 Of these piles, the Gepredaiipns q
these insects are a matter of great nagni
70 tude Efforts will be made 10 discover
"A remedy.
a There is an old man in West Cheshie
:, Conn, who, when he married his sac0a
a wife, made over TO her all his property
70 only stipulatiDg that he should reosiS
from her every day enough money 10 pnr
chase halfa pint Of rum He has draw
- and invested bis stipend ever since VIZ
perfect regularity, occasionally, bogayei
allowing his pay 10 accumulate for sewers
days previous 20 a holiday lie docs thl.
be eaNa. "fDr nhYinns reaalnls'