Year: 1878

Corn has been selling for dime


oushel in Atchison, Kansas.


When young man of Patagonia


wants a wife he rides out and Iassoes
| one.


Temperance women in Pittsburg,


have again taken to raids on the bar


rooms.


George Washington wasn't always


first even in war or in peace. He mar


ried widow.


Louisiana statisticians have discov-
cred that after a negro had passed the
age of fifty he can stand twice as much
heat and cold as a white man.


"A Frenchman of distinguished famI-
", prominent in politics, with $50, 1000
year, and member of the Order of the
Legion of Honor, has twice been expelled
from fashionable clubs for cheating at
cards, which is a mania with him.


Servant looks into the breakfast
room and says: "Please, ma'am there's
beggar woman in the kitchen wants
something to eat" "Give her the water
in which the eggs were boiled this morn
ing, Bridget, it's quite nutritious"


"A San Jose lady, who, it was sup
posed, had gone to the theatre, saw her
husband hugging and kissing the ser
want girl, whereupon she knocked him
senseless with a poker, and broke the
nose of the girl. Now there is a sensible
woman; but she has had to pay $500 for
the fun.


AT milford, Conn, young lady took
care of an elderly gentleman who was
nearly helpless from gout, and induced
him to give her note for $4,000 and
then to marry her; but the note was not
paid, and the man died, and now the lady
has brought suit against the estate to re-
cover the money.


He that has lost his fortune is, in
the worlds eve, so completely changed,
that to the society which cherished him
once, he is utterly Invisible and unre-
memberable. When he rises in the up
per light of power and renown, his fea-
lures will re-assume their once known
aspect, and men will find out that they
are his dearest friends


He was taken sick in the night, and
in her youthful ignorance she made two
mustard plasters, and put one on his
chest and one between his shoulders;
and then, with horrid sarcasm, she ask
ed him how he felt. But he was we'll
bred man, and merely said that he real
lied with a tenderness he had never
known before the true position of sand
wich in the community.


why don't you buy a power press,
inquired several enthusiastic Democrats,
says the Marshalhown Statesman, as we
take our locked-up pages of type through
the streets on a wheelbarrow to steam
printing press owned by a rich printing
firm. Why don't we buy the Boardman
House, Woodbury. block, and the public
square? Why don't we raise h-l on four
dollars and a half? It is easy to do all
these things providing you have the col
laterals, but at the present writing we
confess we have not enough money to
buy a cheese press. Printing Democrat
ic newspapers in Iowa is like peddling
peanuts in graveyard.


Envy is frequently the foundation |
OF all ill-reports. There is jealousy in |
some characters which renders the sue
cess of others the subject of malevolence |
instead of appreciation. The sudden de- |
preston of those with whom they are
connected, would give felicity but if
they are exalted in the scale of society,
and receive thejust encomiums of merit,
it creates hatred. They now cease to be
upon a level with such and as they will |
not see by what principles they have
been distanced, they seek to avoid COM
parison, and begin to detract either from
the moral or intellectual qualities of those
whom they once loved, Thus merit is
frequently inundated upon the altar of
caprice, or devoted to the sullen look of
suspicion.


Not long since we chanced to pass
an apple orchard which was laden with
handsome Baldwins. The owner inform
ed us that it always bore the odd years,
and for this reason had netted him more
profit than had been received from any
other five orchards of the same size in |
town. AS nearly every tree fruited this |
year, while the same kind of trees on the |
same kind of soil in a neighbor's orchard |
bore no fruit, it was evident that it was |
not q mere freak of nature, but the re-
suit Of some treatment which the trees |
had received, and which had been lack !
ing IN the other orchards. We accord
ingly asked the owner what he knew
about it, and he told us that he bought
the farm after the orchard began to
bear, but was told that when it was graft
ed care was taken to get the gratis from
a tree which bore in the odd year, and
to set them in an even year, and that !
when the gratis first began to blossom
every small apple which set in an even
year was Telentlessly picked of, while |
those which came out odd years were |
left to grow.