Year: 1874

TYPoGRAPHICAL ERRoRs-Printers'
strikes.


WHEN is match frivolousP When it
makes light of things.


WHY is retired carpenter like lee
turer? Because he is an ex.planer.


A PARIS correspondent says that
scarcely any color but black is worn for
street toilets.


A MILKNAN at Elmira, N. Y, has intro
duced the plan of delivering milk in
glass bottles.


A SABBATH days journey is 1855
yards, which is trife less than two
thirds of a mile.


BOSTON has more corns than any other
city. Her popular corn doctor has gath
cred 100000 worth.


THE Mayor of ST. Louis has vetoed an
ordinance providing free baked beans for
the INDECENT classes.


THE Persians say of noisy, unreasona-
BILE talk: 81 hear the sound of the mill
stone, but see no meal"


A MALICIOUS person says that cotton
sheets and newspaper sheets are alike in
the respect that great many people lie
In them.


The newest veil is Brussels net, dotted
with jet beads. The veil is left unhemmed
merely covers the face, and is not trimmed
with lace.


IT is stated that raw oysters contain
sufficient pepsin to digest themselves.
Pepsin is the active element in the gas
trio juice.


PEOPLE who figure very closely make
their checks payable one day after date,
and thus cheat Uncle Sam out of two
cent stamp.


A New YORK paper has an article on
"What TO eat" a good many people in
that vicinity would prefer to be shown
how to get something to eat.


THE apiarians throughout Kentucky
will suffer heavy losses by the coming
spring, as nearly all the bee colonies on
hand have starved to death, and many
more will do so.


THE Je15sh Messenger says no Jewess,
so far as is known, longs to join the
Woman's Rights Reform, and thinks this
may be en- evidence either of their degen-
eracY or of their common sense.


AFEMALE lecturer in California, speak
ing in behaIfof her sex, says: MANS pleas
uTes would never suit us, and his profits
we have. We allow him enough TO dress
respectfully, and TO take him to lectures
and other intellectual circuses; but the
bulk of his income we appropriate


THE Legislature of Georgia has been
memorialized by persons who represent
that the songster of the South, the mock
ing bird, is in danger of extirpation on
account of the number captured and sold
They ask that the capture and sale of
young mocking birds be prohibited for
season to give the birds an opportunity to
increase.


THE Bishop of Montreal had prohibited
dancing. Two officers, wishing to obtain
permission to dance the polka at a mill
tary ball, danced it together to show the
Bishop how it was done. After The ex-
hibltion the Bishop gave his permission
in these terms: "You can dance the
polka as long as you please-with each
other!"


DURING the winter the amount of china
and glassware broken on the transatlantic
steamships is very great. II is almost i'm.
possible to prevent some breakage, and
during an unusually rough voyage the
loss of table ware often amounts to several
thousand dollars. And yet, say the own
ers, if we use common stone china and
pressed glass, our patrons would grumble
and say we were altogether too econom-
ical.


RHODE ISLAND is waking up to the folly
of setting man adrift on the world, when
he has completed term in State prison,
without cent in his pocket, and expect
ing him to lead a virtuous life. A bill
has been introduced into the Legislature
providing that one-tenth of the earnings
of every convict shall be given him at the
expiration of his term, unless the amount
has been given to his family previously,
in case of sickness.


CLEVELAND was startled recently by
singular discovery made by some work
men. They were repairing a building
known as the WOolsey House, situated in
the lower part of the town, and in taking
down the chimney skeleton was dis
covered wedged in the tiue. 1t was pro-
nounced by the physicians who examined
1t to be the skeleton of woman, appar-
emily about eighteen years of age, and it
had probably been in the place where it
was discovered about year.


JOHN MORLEY says, in a recent essay:
at is the turn which a man takes about
the age of five-and. forty that parts him off
among the sheep on the right hand or the
poor goats on the left. This is the time
of the grand moral climacteric; when
genial, unvarnished selhshness, or coarse
and ungenial cynicism, or querulous de-
spOndency, finally chokes out the gener-
GUS resolve of fancied strength which
had not yet been tried in the furnace of
circumstances"


The New York Tribune of recent date
says: at is not often that man, ground
down by years of tyranny, ventures to lift
his voice in complaint against his op-
pressOrs. But once in while he breaks
his dumb submission, and subdued, sad
shrek goes meandering along the aisles
of Time. Such one is echoed from the
Boston Globe, wherein a gloomy editor
mourns over the inequality of man and
woman as shown in cases of breach of
promise of marriage He takes note of
the frantic alacrity with which the aver
age jurynian soothes the sorrows of an un
appreciated lady with verdict of glitter
ing damages. And then he points out a
tiendish and unjust distinction in law.
Does mere man, whose timid heart has
been persuaded to throw itself at the feet
of coquette only to be cast aside, ever
get thousand dollars or d hundred dol
lars, or one dollar even, with which to
mend the rents and tatters in the same
Never The balm of gold is denied him;
even the poor consolation of making a
graceful and an impressive appearance in
court and the illustrated papers is not for
him. There is a stony and barbaric air
OF oppression about this state of things
that takes us back to the dark ages, ana
causes the disinterested philosopher TO
shudder at the wretched, crushed and help
less condition of man."