Year: 1874

Yale University has this year 70 in
structors and go students.
Colored hosiery is coming into favor
among the New York bellies.


ALincoln monument is to be erected
in London, at a cost of S35, 900.
The first white men who trod on
Pennsylvania soil, came down the Della
ware.


A naughty boy recently referred to
some of his sisters music as her ''whin-
ing sheet"


Although the father of our country
never told lie, he could be at times
very cutting.


A poor unfortunate who was "assisted"
out of doors the other night says he has
no objection to his wife putting her foot
down, but he wishes she wouldn't take
it up.


Comparison of our present estimates
of standard works of literature with
those formed by us in earlier life, is
recommended by Proctor as the best
general test of the growth of mind.


Royalty not unfrequently gives evil
dence of cravings of mind which empty
honors cannot satisfy. King Oscar, OF
Sweden, has invented fire-escape which
has proved a success.


Howard Glyndon maintains that the
truth of the epigram that "woman's
work is never done" depends very much
upon the fact that women do not train
themselves to economize either their
strength or their time.


The Saracens are credited with origi-
mating the custom of weaving orange
blossoms into bridal garlands. The
orange branch was to them an emblem
of prosperity, because of its bearing
flowers and fruit at the same time.


In Chicago recently, a man was
brought up ON a charge of burglary, and
by the advice of his counsel, pleaded
guilty. The District Attorney, however.
declined to prosecute, and the Judge
discharged the self confessed thief.


A steamer recently hauled up in New
London was found to be covered with
barnacles, in some places two feet thick.
The vessel had been in the water little
more than a year, and during that time
had been used as a ferry boat, running
almost constant sixteen hours daily.


A Virginia girl, sixteen years of age,
recently ran away from home, and has
since been employed in a Philadelphia
shooting gallery, where she dresses In
boys clothing. She was probably am-
bitious, and chose the companionship
of those who do not lead an aimless life.


The excitement of the recent accident
to young Merrimen, of Danbury,
whereby he was thrown against fence
and broke both of his legs, brought
together two estranged families and
four estranged single parties in the
neighborhood, and they are now friend
ier than ever.


Sir Samuel Baker recently delivered
an address upon the subject of the slave
trade in Africa, in which he said that on
one occasion, after having lectured
chief at great length, upon the horrible
nature of the slave trade, the chief con-
cluded the interview by offering to sell
his son to Sir Samuel.


A Frenchman who recently died, left
in his will provision that his body be
given to the Paris Gas Company to be
put into a retort for the manufacture of
gas giving as a reason that as he had
always used his mind for the illumina-
ton of the public, he desired his body
applied to the same purpose.


Attempting to suppress a sneeze has
80, x-gx1 a.. IL
of Springfield, Mass. A partial par
alysis was caused by the effort, by
which one side of the face has become
so distorted that her intimate friends
fail to recognize her features, and it is
considered doubtful if they will ever
resume their natural appearance.


They have got a pair of edible Chi
nese dogs in Paris. The puppies are
hairless and fat and live on vegetable
food, and it is very hard to keep the
epicures from devouring them alive.
Who knows what profit and pleasure
would result from their introduction to
this country There are lots of puppies
here, it Is true, but then they are not
exactly tOothsome.


Professor John Stuart Blackie writes
to foreign journal that since Latin is
going out of use as the language of
universal communications between
saudns and other learned authorities,
Greek is the tongue best fitted to sue
ceed it The latter embraces a larger
and more varied field of culture than
the English even, and is the basis of the
technical terms of all sciences, down to
the very latest.


1t has lately been asserted that the
Oldest person living was found to be q
woman in Brazil. This may be so /; but
according to the Los Angeles Express
California contains the next oldest in
habitsnt. She is a Mexican lady, and
resides at San Gabriel. She has reached
13i years, and was always an inveterate
smoker, or, it is argued, might have
preserved more youth in her appear
ance, and perhaps added to the years CT
her life, though there are as yet no
signs in her case of immediate dissolu-
tion.


A Paris correspondent writes: 'The
Vaudeville was brilliantly illuminated
the other night with gigantic 100 in
letters of fire blazing above its portals,
| in honor of the one hundredth night of
/ Uncle SAM which charming play is
nightly rellshed by the Parlsians on
account of the singular truthfulness to
nature of the American manners therein
presented They swallow it all, these
/ benighted Parisians - the steamboat
that runs between New York and Chi
cago, the fashionable watering place of
Newark, the young lady who goes
thither to spend couple of weeks in
company with the gentleman to whom
she is engaged, and all the rest of it"


The recent meeting of the American
Fish Culturists' Association furnished
evidence of the rapid progress which
has been made in the artificial propsga-
ton of fish within the last two or three
years. The salmon of California have
been transported to New England
waters, and the shad of the Hudson
/ and the Connecticut now swim In the