Year: 1875

CURRENT ITEMS.
ONE important result of the many
costly Improvements made by the leading
railway companies within the past two
years is that broken rails are now CON-
paratively rare.


A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman, when dy-
ing, made her husband swear, on the
Bible, he'd never marry a woman with a
sharp nose. And yet sharp nose is not
half SO bad as a sharp tongue.


THE famous pretty girls of Providence
must beware. The Providence Journal
says " the amount Of beauty and bank
stock which has gone out of this town
through marriage is enormous"


THE clash in the fashionable world Just
now between the girls with pretty feet
who want to wear short dresses and
those with ugly feet who insist upon
fashionable dressmakers as something
fearful.


IT is a curious fact that sewing-ma-
chimes can be purchased in Europe and
brought to this country for just one-half
of the price they cost here, including all
costs of freight, duty, ETC., the reason
y,
| anyone being allowed to make them.
A WESTERN patertam6I5as, who has
raised two families, has discovered that
children grow far M ore between January
and July than in the other half of the
year. His theory is that the growth of
humanity is governed by the same laws
which prevail over the vegetable king
DOM


If boy is walking along the street
accompanied by big dog, and boy
with small dog comes out of side
street, it is just as impossible for that
big boy to resist urging his dog to chew
the small canine up as it is for boy to
pass sugar box and not feel Of the
Jumps.


IT has been suggested that among the
supplies for the Polar expedition should
be included a few pounds of mustard and
cress-seed, for the purpose of obtaining
green salad. These seeds will grow if
sprinkled in a damp piece of flannel or
a bed of moist ashes, and the plants have
long been esteemed for their antiscor-
butte properties.


A RECENT California letter says:
"Flowers are blooming in all their varie-
gated beauty in the gardens on every
hand; all kinds of green sauce abound in
the marketplaces. Strawberries grown
in the open air are selling at twenty-five
cents per quart. The hills and wales are
covered with grass, atfording the most
luxuriant feed for stock"


THEY gave Massachusetts woman q
narcotic, and she did not wake until
after the time in which her dream had
told her she would die had passed.
Though she is now safe and thankful
there is away down in her heart of hearts
Just speck of disappointment that the
dream was not fulfilled; it would have
created such a stir among the neighbors.


A LIGHTBoAT at New London, Conn,
having taken to leaking from some mys-
terious cause investigation was made,
which resulted in the discovery that the
mischief was caused by hammer which
had been left in the bottom undel the
floor when the boat was built thirteen
years ago Moved with the continual
motion of the vessel it had worn through
planking and keel to the copper plating
which alone had kept the vessel from
sinking.


THE Dallas (Tex.) Commercial says in
recent issue: GA lady now resident
of our city, and one of the finest writer's
in the State. lost her husband some six
years ago; she knew his life was insured
for SIC, 900, but could not find the papers
and did not know in what company it
was She went to New Orleans and
spent the winter there in trying to ferret
out the matter, but was at length COM
PEELED to give it up in despair. She was
engaged yesterday in writing New
Years address for the Commercial and
was looking over some old papers for an
address she had written some years
previous when she came across the lost
paper" e


THE police records of New York last
August contained case which deserves
to be put among medical records. A man
fell from the roof of his house, where he
had been in the habit of sleeping on
summer nights. He was found by a
policeman, taken to station-house and
pronounced drunk by the surgeon. He
walked home, and appears to have had
Jolly day, for he danced to the tune OF
the Mulligan Guards" for the amuse
ment of his friends. But the following
morning he died, and post-mortem ex
animation discovered the fact that in his
fall his skull had been fractured, several
ribs broken, his spleen ruptured, and
large quantities of blood had accumu-
lated in the abdominal cavity. Instances
of such persistent vitality are rare.


A BUTCHER of this city, who is the in
ventor of a new kind of sausage con-
tanning vast amount of nutriment in
greatly condensed form, named the same
the "Multum in Parvo sausage" few
days since he employed painter to
paint him sign bearing the above name,
to be erected in front of his market.
Yesterday the sign was completed and
brought to the butcher for his accept
ance. Judge of the surprise and indigna-
ton of the inventive butcher when he
fully realized that the great flaming YER
million and blue letters on the sign before
him read: Mutton in Porko sausage!"
| The painter swore that that was what
the butcher told him to put on the sign,
and said that he Thought it very ap-
| propriate name" When the painter said
| this the butcher seized cleaver, and it
took three men to hold him, so desirous
| was he of splitting open the head OF the
poor, trembling artist Virginia Csty
| (NeU.) Enterprise.