Year: 1874

A lie properly seasoned with grace
has uniform flavor.


Men deride the self-conceit of power,
but cringe to its injustice.


Hair-cutting is one dollar in Prescott,
Arizona, by licensed BARRIERS.


Minnesota thinks of anne1ing the
Chippewa Indians. aud admitting them
to the rights of citizenship.


The Legislature of Western Virginia
IS said to have passed a law ito prevent
the owners of hogs from running at
large"


A Washington paper is horrified at
the thoughts of how much influence the
fashion magazines will WELD when vo-
men vote.


A Kansas clergyman travels through
that State with a portable tent, capable
of holding 1000 persons, to sccommo-
date those to whom lie may preach.


1t is stated that the Mormons are
about to re establish themselves at
Nauvoo, the place from which they were
forcibly elected by the citizens of Illi-
nois, about twenty-five years ago.


A couple from Staunton, Va, drove
out from that city on Christmas day,
and, meeting by appointment. clergy
man at designated part of the road,
were married as they sat in their buggy.


Here is a curious old Gaelic adage
concerning longevity:
Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse;
Thrlee ne age of horse !. that Of a man;
Thrice the age of man Is that Of q deer,
Thrice the age of deer is that of an eagle;
Thrice the age of an eagls is III 4 Of oaktree.


ATopeka Lady sums up the first three
years of her experience in married life
as follows: The first year he called me
dear the second year, Mrs. A. and
the third year, ''old sorrel top"


A train going at full speed, it is said,
was recently stopped in a very curious
way. A hen on the track was struck by
the locomotive, and portion of the
body, by some accident, struck the air
brake in such a way as to set it in action
and stop the train.


There was a method in the supposed
madness of the spiritualist who recently
committed suicide. Even in his pre-
parations for death he was unable to
resist the temptation to perpetrate q
Joke. In a written memorandum left
behind he says: 81 have purified my
soul twenty five or thirty years. think
L must be a rectiiiel spirit"


Topeka, Kansas, Will soon have ex-
tensive rolling mills at work. A local
paper halls this as promise OF future
greatness, and Hospitality observes:
"We are the busiest city in the West,
our population is increasing rapidly,
and if any sOjourner in this bleak world
is looking for place where his life will
be happy and pleasant, and where he
will be handy to heaven when he dies,
we invite him to come to Topeka"


suitor for the hand of Princess Bea-
trice, the youngest daughter of Queen
Victoria, is said to have appeared. He
is young German Prince, a cousin of
Prince Louis of Hesse, and an officer in
the German navy. Princess Beatrice
was born in April, 1857, and is conse-
quently not yet II years of age. Her
eldest sister, the Princess Royal, was
married to the Crown Prince of Russia
when only little over II years of age


Five hundred ladies' and a like num-
ber Of gentlemen have agreed to form a
club in London, where both sexes will
have all the privileges now confined to
masculine club members At least, 80
says Monclre ID. Conway, who further
adds that the experiment of q mixed
club has already been successfully tried
in a small way. 1t is rather strange
that London should be in advance Of
us in this matter We have all the ma
terials for such club here, bnt as yet
they have failed to coalesce.


Governor Stafford of Arizona plainly
describes the class of people that don't
get along in the West. He says that
"gentlemanly farmers, who commence
without means and have hired all their
work done, will undoubtedly be obliged
to quit the business and those who
have invested the largest portion of
their crops in poor whiskey at twenty
five cents per glass will hardly be able
to meet their obligations and inspire
sufficient confidence to obtain credit in
the future" That style of doing bust
ness is equally unsuccessful in the East.


A Cape May correspondent writes:
A large fish, measuring twelve feet in
length, three in width, and two in thick
ness, was captured in the breakers re-
Gently by the crew Of the Life Saving
Station, No. 80, Peck's Beach. He had
evidently made no calculation for the
ebbing of the tide, and when first dis
covered was making frantic efforts to
find deeper soundings. A couple OF
loads of shot, followed by an attack
with boat hooks, soon put him in an
unfit condition for future voyages. His
back is of light yellowish color. and
belly white. He has teeth in the lower
Jaw, and side fins about one foot in
length; his back fin six inches. He
weighs about 200 pounds. The crew,
though composed Of seafaring men, are
unable to name the fish.


A Colorado paper, of recent date, re-
lates the following story: A gentleman
was walking down Virginia Canon the
other day. There was no perceptible
breeze at the time. Suddenly he was
surprised by a roaring noise behind
him-a noise like that of an express
train VIXEN crossing q bridge or passing
a rocky wall. Stopping a moment to
listen, the whirlwind, apparently not
more than yard in diameter, and ira
yelling no faster than a spirited walk,
picked him up, as it were, and waltzed
off down the road with him. Its verti-
cal force was sufficient to invert the
tails Of his coat above his head, not
withstanding the pockets were loaded
with specimens of silver ore, and at the
same time he was carried along for q
hundred feet or more like a feather,
with both feet occasionally off the
ground, while under him was noise
like that of an empty car bouncing over
stony street.


A writer in Mr.. Bergh's paper, The
AniB,ai Kingdom, presents some curl
ous statistics of the connection between
crime and cruelty. Out of 1000 con-
victs of whom inquiry was made, only
IL admitted that they left pets at home.
This is in accordance with the expert
ence Of all visitors among the poor.
They will tell us that the fower-pot in