Year: 1874

| Miss MACK, who runs lodging-houss
in New York, has seized John Dickson.
$12 artificial leg as collateral for boart
BIZ.
No fashionable woman thinks of wear
ing collar nowadays Ruffles are all
the go and liable to be for some time tC
come.


THE Philadelphia Bulletin complains
Of nocturnal glee clubs that "dock the
tail of melody and break the legs OF
time"


A New ORLEANS young woman re-
Gently swallowed eight five-cent pieces
which she had stolen rather than give
them up.


A YOUNG stowaway was recently dis
covered on the cars at Sacramento, Cal
who had travelled undiscovered all the
way from New York.


A COUPLE recently married at Taunton,
Mass, has been counting thirty years,
having been affianced before the birth of
the clergyman who united them.
THE Dominion of Canada comes for
ward with Il girl of fifteen who recently ate
for her dinner two pounds of beefsteak
one large loaf of bread, with half pound
of butter, small measure of potatoes,
and withal three pints of baked beans


IT was one of the early rose variety,
and Mr. Dearing, of Athens, Ga, dug it
last year and kept it as curiosity on
account of its extraordinary size When
it was cut open the other day it was
foAnd full Of well developed young po.
tatoes


Miss SALTsGIvER, of Kentucky, would
be feminine Nero if she had fiddle
while her father was absent investiga-
ting little transaction of hers, where
she attempted to get some dry goods un-
der false pretenses, she set fire to the
house and cooper-shop and sang while
they burned"


ALBERT GRAY had an alteration with
Thomas Mahan, in barber shop at Con
cord, N. H., recently, and picking up a
gun said to him. I" If this gun was loaded
I'd shoot you,' and Immediately dis
charged it at him. The gun was loaded
with fine shot and took fearful effect on
Mahan, striking him directly in the neck.
1t IS feared the assault will terminate
fatally.


RATS are very plenty in the Hoosac
tunnel, and according to the Adams
T',.sssSr,'spt they seem to ha~o been the
means of saving the lives of several
miners, who were sitting on platform
when large drove of the rats rushed
by, to which the miners gave chase
They had gone but short distance
when the roofing fell down over the
platform where they had been sitting.


THE Excelsior Magazine" one of the
choicest and most artistic of monthlies,
is published at $3 so a year New sub
scribers are offered $3.50 field croquet
set and the magazine for $40, only 80
cents additional A handsomely-illu
trated Fashion and Etiquette supplement
goes with it. Rare inducements to get
ters-up of clubs in money or premiums.
Sample copies 25 cents. Office, Room 50,
No. 157 La Sale street, Chicago, III.


A CURIOUS mode of fish-hatching is
said to be followed in China. Having
collected the necessary spawn from the
waters edge, the fisherman places GER
tain quantity in an empty hens egg,
which is sealed up with wax, and put
under the setting hen. After some days
they break the egg and empty the fry
into water well warmed by the sun, and
there nurse them until they are sufficiently
strong to be turned into lake or river


AT Pontiac, r. l., recently, pair of
American river tortoises of great size
were observed coming down the Paw
tucket River with the current. When
first seen they were engaged in fierce
combat, which they kept up till the cur
rent carried them over the dam. The
shock occasioned by the fall of their
heavy, unyielding weight on the rocks
below appeared to put an end to the
fight, and they were seen just under the
dam many times during the day. They
were afterward shot and were found to
weigh respectively forty-one and thirty
eight pounds, and measure nearly four
feet in length.


A FEW days ago while the Dipley boys
were working about twelve miles north
of Forsythe, Mo-, making shingles, their
dog treed a catamount. The boys went
to the dogs assistance, and after throw
ing rocks at the catamount awhile they
finally devised rather novel plan
to capture him. They cut pole about
thirty feet long, then they peeled some
pawpaw bark and made slipping moose
at one end of the bark, and fastened that
end to the pole, when by managing the
pole very carefully they succeeded in
getting the moose over the head of the
catamount, when they gave slight pull
on the bark and successfully hung him
the bark passing over limb few feet
below where he was first stationed. They
kept him in that position until he was
dead, when they let him to the ground
He measured four and a half feet in
length and weighed sixty-nine pounds.
ANOTHER of those devices that some
females are SO full of has come to light
A young lady of Hutchinson, who
is fair to middling in looks-puts on a
good deal of style and would like to be
popular, and who dwells in house that
while it is decent and respectable is not
grand-had the luck some time since to
receive an introduction to stranger who
hailed from neighboring town. 1t was
at church that she was made acquainted
with him, and he asked to see her home
she accepted, and they started. 1t oc'
Cured to her as they walked onward
that after what she had said it would
hardly do to enter her humble dwelling
for the lad might think she was not what
she seemed. A few houses distant from
hers stands hne-looking residence, be
| fore which she halted. He not being &C
ouainted with Hutchinson or her sup
posed Of course that everything was d
right and left the gate with bright vision
dancing through his brain, while she hit
behind the stoop until he got out o
sight, and then went home happy
HuteAinson MIMI Entsspriss