The Evening critic., 1882-01-23
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germs.
New velvet necklaces are studded with
pearls.
Diamond stars that quiver are worn in
the hair.
The average English farm consists of 165
acres.
Sponge culture is a success at Pine Key,
Florida.
Best expressed ON tombsto nes-grave
sentiments.
There is almost sauerkraut famine in
New York.
The sparrows plague the Australians.
The American boys plague the sparrows.
Edwin Booth denies the story that he is
to build another theatre in New York.
Tho Princess of Wales is aged thirty
seven, and not being an actress, owns up to
it.
The yield of hops throughout the coun-
try is fully twenty-five per cent. below the
average.
A man is like an egg. You can't tell
whether or not he's good until he's
''broke."
Parisiennes have their initials embroid-
cred ON their gloves and shoes in self-col-
ored silks.
Ethical culture is very good thing, but
physical culture is more popular.-N.
Y. Telegram.
The largest vineyard in California will
be planted this winter. 1t will contain L.
100000 vines.
1t is impossible for a young woman to
look as dignifed in short skirt us in
trained dress.
The climate of California is said to be
pre-seminently suited to the healthy
growth of silk worms.
The aesthetic policemen of Boston have
been furnished with clubs, elaborately
carved.
More grain has been sown in South Caro-
lima this season than in any other since the
war.
A hunter in Montana Territory claims to
have shot 107 buffaloes in one day. His
name is Vic. Smith.
"well," said an Irish attorney, of it
Place the court, if am wrong in this,
have another point that is equally con-
elusive"
'Last but not leased" as the builder
| said when he finished the final house in
| the block he had been erecting.-Y Yawcob
| Strauss
George Washington never told a lie but
| it must be remembered that he entered pol
| itics when the country was very new
New Orleans Picdyune.
From the persistency with which Van
uerDllU WaterS MS SlOCk, III Is buOugHU UndU
| at one time he must have been milkman.
-Yonkers Statesman.
| Rev. DR.. Fowler says the man who at
baptism does not go deep enough into the
| water to get his pocketbook under has not
dipped enough to save him.
| "Who owns Chicago?" asks the Tribune
of that city. This can be more easily ascer-
tanned after the eastern mortgages have
foreclosed.-Nep Haren Register.
Wild ducks are making sad havoc with
young grain in Colusa County, Cal. On
one farm they nipped the blades off from
all the wheat sprouted on 1000 acres.
An apotbecary at Leavenworth, Kan
sas, who gave man a dose of po wdered
opium for powdered rhubarb, has been sued
for $4,000 damages by the widow of the
victim.
1t is said the only obstacle in the way of
transporting live hogs from this country to
England is the difficulty of feeding them
on the passage. Why not feed them from
the trough of the sea?-Someryilte Jour
| nal.
At New Orleans all the cotton presses are
glutted, owing to the fact that great guam
titles of Gotten are being held for future de-
livery and no large shipments are being
made to Europe.
The desire to win prize of $50 set the
citizens of Denver guessing as to tho mum
ber oil bes.iis contained in pot, and the
winner came within fourteen of the exac
number, which was 36,420.
The officials of London, Ont, have dis
tinguished themselves by declining to pro
tect the first Chinaman who settled in that
city, and as the roughs gave him no peace
he was compelled to quit the place.
The Hindoos in filling up census papers
exhibit refreshing degree of simplicity
and honesty. In Bombay there are, upor
their own confession 26 gamblers and swim
dlers, dog poisoner, 16 wizards and 69
tattooers.
A "dress album" is the latest idea.
piece of each new dress is carefully ut an,
pasted upon leaf and and the date is at
tached. Thus a record of a lady's changes
of costume is made.
The peach trees are blooming in Florida
, At Staunton, Va, a man recently gathered
n second crop of strawberries. Numerous
4 fruit trees are in bloom for the second time
and if the wheat continues to grow as a.
present, harvesting will begin by the frs
of March.
1t is said that, with the exception o
Pittsburg, Paterson has more one-eyed
persons than any city in this country
The iron and steel workers get chips il
their eyes The glass-eye manufacturer
considered Paterson a cornerstone of the
business.
/ A Japanese student of Cornell University
who attended the Dairymen's Convention
at Syracuse, N. Y, last week, advocate
theSintroduction of the saga bean of Japai
into this country. as nutritious and valu
able production.
Forty years ago, when Mrs. Mowat
was playing Juliet to crowded house, an
she lay dead in the tomb, she contrived
ask Romeo how the scene was going
Beautifully" he answered; "the peopl
a down stairs have to put up umbrellas
= prevent being drowned by the tears {
those in the gallery."-Er.
y Since its completion entire satisfaction
s expressed with the temperature, ventilatio
and lighting ofthe st. Gothard Tunnel, an
q with the solidity of its construction. Th
n obstacles which caused most anxiety, and
one time even threatened to remain insu
mountable, give no sign in the complett
]. work that they ever existed.
Although an official declaration and
commemorative medal announce that Co
u ogne Cathedral is practically complete.
y certain amount of decoration -considerab
y in the aggregate though Insignificant
:. comparison with the whole vast work
7, still remains to be applied. The LondC
!" Echo thinks that another generation ma
10 pass away before the structure, with all i