Year: 1878

Flies, flies, beautiful flies


You may smash one to death, but he never
dies.


Even a barrel hoop will turn when trod
| upon.


Cucumbers are green, but they get the best


OF fellow sometimes.


| There is no humble bee but can be distin-
| guished when you sit down on him.


Newspaper paragraphers must be great
| liars-their statements are never credited.


Wooden doors covered with tin are said to


be much better check to FIRE than doors of
| iron.


Francis Murphy will have charge of the


national temperance camp meeting held at
| Round Lake August 6.


The emperor Of Brazil has given from his
| private purse the sum of 81 0O0 for the use


of Brazilian students of music in Europe.


immense scandal In Vienna. Johann
| Strauss, within two months after bis wife's


death has married again, his second spouse
being Angelica Dittrich. a pupil of Prock,


the Viennese singing master.
The Detroit Free Press man says that wo-
| men can puff their own hair without calling


for the aid of newspapers. Perhaps they


can; but when they want to puff the rear OF
| their dresses, they frequently call IN the aid


of the press, and make considerable hustle
about it, too.


King Louis of Bavaria goes to the theatre
| in plain black suit, occupies the middle
box of the front tier and has the perform
ance conducted for his exclusive benefit, not
another soul being present in the auditorium.
| AT the end of each act he retires, whether


to change his breath or not is not stated.


The government is going to send New
| England bank cashier along with the How
| gate Arctic expedition. When the ship
reaches an impossible ice bank, the cashier
Will be set out upon it. He will break it up,
and find the nearest, shortest route TO Eu-
rope in about ten days. The ships can fol-
low him.


About year ago ct Stockton California,
doctor. in sinking an artesian well, at a
depth of sixty feet came upon something
which prevented further progress drill
lowered down rebouDded with a hollow
sound as though striking the roof of a
house or the deck of a vessel. He then put
down a sand pump and obtained good
stream of water, which brought up with it
TWO brass nuts of peculiar pattern. For
several weeks past the stream has brought
up quantities of tow or oakum and scales of
iron or copper 1t is apparent that some
SORT of vessel is sunk there, though how ii
came so far inland is a mystery, and a
shaft will probably be sunk to explore the
matter.


An officer who was with Crook in the bat
tie of the Rosebud, June H. 1876. writes Ton
the anniversary of that day. as follows: VI
shall ALWAYS believe that all subsequent
troubles with the Sioux-the Custer mas
sacre and all-can be traced to one of two
pivotal points: Leaving our pack trains on
Goose creek and making it impossible or in
advisable to follow up such a little fracas as
that of the Rosebud; or our failure to
seek the enemy again Immediately after
our return to Goose creek, on the 10th. In
either event we would have met Clusters
army. The two commands would have been
united The whole Sioux nation was there
and keen for a fight. There would have
been one great battle and our troubles with
the Sioux would have been forever ended"


A correspondent gives the following de-
scription of San RO sore a stock farm ne'r
Pisa which belongs to the king of Italy. He
says the stables contain some 800 mares and
stations, mostly thoroughbreads, Or pure
Arab. Among other horses there is the
Arab stallion which King Victor Emanuel
rode at the battle of Palestro, and a black
which was the favorite charger of the pres
ent king. There are 300 camels kept on the
the correspondent says they do the work
very well, and are not at all affected by the
climate, though it Is colder than that to
which they are accustomed. There is a royal
residence upon the property which extends
to the sea shore, and il was here that the
late king often came to shoot and hunt, cast
ing of sll state etiquette, and leading the
life Of hardy farmer.