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THE MONTANA POST, FRIDAY, J A N U A R V 2t^.
TheMontana Post.
PKIOAY WOR^ I ^^*^ JAN. i9lh.
narkTwain.
Mark^strayed over to Chicago the^other day and spoke his piece, entitled^the ^American Vandal Abroad.^ The^Chicago Trib**ns gave hia lecture prom*,^inent notice, and finished the article^with the following tketch. which will^he appreciated by hia numerous* acqaain^tances in this n^ck of tL^^ woods. He^ha.* evidently set up a huge tiling re^^cently on the Good Templars^^^r else^on thu importers :
MarkTwain 'Samuel G. Clement is^a gentleman of some notoriety, and his^^'fluxions are constantly making the^rounds of the press. The following^sketch will be interesting to those who^have not the pleasure ot his acquain^^tance. Blessed with long legs, he is tall,^reaching five feet ten inch*-s in his boots:^weight. 167 pounds: body lithe and^muscular: head r^und and well set on^considerable neck, and feet ot no size |^within the ken ot a shoemaker, so he^gets his boots and stockings always^made to order. Next to Grant he wears^the belt tor smoking- He smohes to^^bacco. Drink never crosses the thresh^^old ot his humorous mouth. Fun lurks^in the corners of it. The eyes are deep^aet and twinkle like stars in a dark^night. The brow overhangs the eyes,^and the head is protected from the^weather by dark and curling locks.^The face is eminently a good^one, a laughing face, beaming^with humor and genuine good nature.^He looks as if he would make a good^husband and a jolly father. As a hu^^morous lecturer he is a success. There^is nothing in his lectures, tor he very^properly sacrifices everything to make^his audience roar, and they do it. Hi.-*^manner is peculiar: he hangs round^lojee, leaning on the desk, or flirting^round the corners of it ; then marching^and countermarching in the rear of it,^marking off ground by the yard with^his tremendous boots. He would laugh^at his own jokes, but that his doing so^would detract from the fun of his hear^^ers, so he contents himself by lefusing^to explode, and swallows his risibility^until the lecture is over, when he feels^^ r.sit-r and blows ofF steam. His voice^is a long, monotonous drawl, well adapt^ed to his style of speaking. The fun^invariably comes in at the end of a sen^t^ nee. after a pause. Wh^n the audi^^ence least expects it, some dry remark^drops and tickles the ri'^s and endangers^the waiet buttons ot the ^lunghists.'*^During the evening, as U to prove that^there was something besides humor in^him, he branched out into quite elo^quent passages, which were applauded.^The lecture was good and ttie attend^^ance larg^.
Hintand Mining *tatl^tlca.
Thereport of the Secretary of the^Treasury to Congress contains the fol^^lowing :
'The attention of Congress is called^to the annual report of the Director of^the Mint, which contains the usual sta^^tistics of the coinage of the country,^and the various suggestions and recoin-^uiendati^us which are worthy of con^^sideration.
Theiotal value of the bullion de^^posited at the Mint and branches during^the fiscal vearwas $27.166,31S, of which^$25,472,894 was in gold, and fljMf tH^in silver. Deducting the re-deposit, the^amount of actual deposit was $2 I -V.M .^^^tH
Thecoinage for the \ear was. in^gold coin. $1S,114.42^: gold bars. $6.-^^rJ^^.*10: silver coin. ;fl.l:j^;^^U; silver^bars, $4.'30.2d6; nickel, copper aud bronze^coinage (one, two, three and five cent^pieces.) $l,71o\38o ; total coinage. $20.-^*J04 r^G0; total bars stamped. $6.4*:: MS.
*The gold deposits of uomertic pro-^due.ion were at Philadelphia. *1.:HH^.-^H9; at San Francisco, $14 8*0.117: at^New York, $5,400,000 at Denver. $Uo7.-^'.) ^.*^. The silver deposits were at Phila^^delphia, $07,700: at Sau Francisco,^$651.2*39; at New York. ^968,212; at^Denver. $5,082.
Thegold and silver deposits of for^^eign production were, $1,686,602. The^amount ot gold coined at Philadelphia^was $3,864,425: st S in Francisco. $14,^1)79.558; of silver at Philadelphia.$314,-^750; at San Francisco, $822,000; of^nickel, copper and bronze at Philadel^^phia. $1,713,385. The total number of^pieces coined was 49.735,840.
Thebranch mint at Denver has never^coined money, and its expenses are en^^tirely ont of proportion to its business.^The law under which it was organized^ahould be repealed, and the institution^reorganized as an assay office.
Duringthe past year the branch mint^building at Carson City, Nevada, has^been completed, and the necessary^machinery and fixtures have been for-^warded. It will be ready for work early^aext season.
Themint at Philadelphia and the^branch mint at San Francisco have the^confidence of the people and of the^tJovernm^nt. and when the new mint^building st San Francisco is erected,^t hese mints will be of ample capacity^to sapply coinage tor the whole country.^The business of coinage requires large^and extensive establishments, under^rtiart~^ of men of science and undoubted^intefe ity; and such can be successfully^maintained only at commercial centres,^where bullion ot different degrees of^fineness is continually offered for man*^ipulstion. The establishment of addi^^tional branch mints is therefore un^^necessary, and would be injudicious.
Theentire deposits st tne branch^mint at San Fraacisco, were formerly^in unparted bullion; now nearly two-^thirds ot the amount i* deposited in^bars, refined by private establishments.^The law requires that the parting^charge shall equal the actual cost ot^the process; bat experience of the past^four years shows that not Less than^thirty thousand dollars annually may^be saved to the Government by discon^^tinuing tbe business of refining upon^the Pacific Coast; and it is, therefore,^recommended thst the Secretary be^authorized to exchange the un parted^bullion deposited at the mint for re^^fined bars, whenever, in his opinion, it^may be tor the public interest to do so.
AnOidGTHE III I. I.n.
jTbe following* we esteem a roue a; tbe rireet^baaatiee tf Whrttier'a 'Amotif ihe Hill*,^ tbe^n.steh |^i^ture for ^Maad Muller.^ Tbe poem,^entire, U ma replete web beauty as a bonnet of^^ print's first flowers, and auataiua about tbe mm^relation ic tbe practical wo*Ui Tbe situations are^rereraed from 'Maud Duller: ' in this instance,^^the city's fair. |^aie eUiig-tXer^ winning the heart^an i li . ^^! :i f.ir.i.-r \N b.te iorrbea.t^upon bis pitcbf.^rk leaning.^ Occupying too mucb^a{^ee for our column*, we make no attempt to sus^^tain tbe nairatire.j
Forweek* tbe cloud-* bad raked the bill*^And r-aed the rales with raining'.
An1 all ;he woods were sad with nii-t,^And all th* brooks complaining.
Atlajt, a sudden nir;ht-5tonn tore
TberaoQDtaiu vales ^--un ! t,^And swept tbe Tallies clean before
Tbebu.^om of the thunder.
Rivenof cclJ-inist flowing down
Fromfar-celestiml fountains^^The great ran flaming through the rifts
Beyondtbe walls of mountains!
Themaple* bending o'er the gate,^Their arch of leaves just tinted
Withyellow warmth, the golden glow^Of coming autumn hinted.
Keenwhite between, tbe farm-house showed
Andsmiled on porch and trellis,^The fair democracy of flowers^That equ ils cot and palace.
Andwearing garlands for her dog
Twistchidings and caresses,^a humar flower of childhood shook^.The sunshine from her tres^^s.
Oneither hand we saw the signs
Offancy and of shrewdness,^Where taste had twined its arms of Tines
Roundthrift's uncomely rudeness.
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Andnerer tenderer hands than hers
Unknittbe brow of ailing,^li r garments to tbe sick man's ear
Haremusic in their trailing.
Forlarger life and wiser aims
Thefarmer is ber debtor:^Who holds to his another's heart
Mostneeds be worse or better.
lieowns ber logic of the heart,
Andwisdom of unreason,^Supplying, while be doubts and weighs,
Theneeded word in season.
Hesees with pride her richer thought,
1lerfancy's purer ranges^And love thus deepened to respect,
Isproof against all changes.'*
Hehas hi* own free, bookless lore,^The lessons nature taught him.
Th*wisdom which the woods and hill*^And toiling men hare brought him:
Thesteady-force of will, whereby^ller flexile crace seems sweeter:
Thesturdy counterpoise which make*^Her woman's life completer:
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Howdwarfed against his manliues*
Shem^ps the poor pretention,^The wantj, tbe aims, the follies, born
Offashion and convention!
TI1KWEST.
Themaidens of Stanton. Vs.^rifle match on the 8th inst.
hsd
Andso, in grateful interchange
Otteacher and of h^arer,^Their lives their tru-^ distinctness ke*p
Whiledaily drawing nearer.
Torstill in mutual sufferance lies
Thesecret of troe liring;^Lore scarce is love that never knows
Th sweetness of forgiving.
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Thesunset smouldered as we drove^Reneath the deep bili-ebadow^;
Belowas wreaths of white fog walked^Like ghoaU, the haunted meadows.
Soundingthe summer night, the stars^Dropped down their golden plummele:
Ta- p:ile arc of the Northern lights^Rose o'er the mountain summits.
Untilat last, beneath the bridge,^We heard the Bearcamp flowing
Antsaw ncro*e the m.-tpled lawn^The welcome hwmelights glowing.
HonWaS. M. Stewart was re-elected^to the 1. S. Senate yesterdsy. He was^chosen on the first ballot^the Houses^voting separately, and a joint ballot not^In iiiLr required. With a single excep^^tion, as received the vote of every Re^^publican member. The exception was^in favor of Judge Whitman. General^Thomas H. Willirtms received the com^^plimentary vote of the Democrats^a^party testimonial to which he was enti^^tled, as one ot the ablest, boldest, and^uncompromising representatives of dem^^ocratic principles in Nevada.^Enter-^pri*s, V\th.
Thenecrological record of the year^comprises the names ot Charles Kean.^Sir David Brewster. I*ord Brougham.^James Rothschilds, Berryer, Ssmuel^Ixiver, Coquerel, the sculptor Marochet-^ti, Rossini, and Dean Milman. in Eu*^rope ; and in this country the following:^Bishop Hopkins. Leute, Elliott, the^Mount brothers, the scnlptor Ball^Hughes, Seba Smith. Charles G. Hal-^nine. Professor Auler. Julia Dean^Hayne. James Buchanan and Thaddeus^Stevens. Admiral Bell, of our navy,^died while on service abroad, and Adah^Isaacs Menken died in Psris.
Ata meeting of the California Acad^^emy of Natural Sciences. Jan. 4. a fine^specimen of an ammonite was presented^by one ot the members. It was found^at Shasta Creek. A translucent agate^containing a drop of water^a remark^^ably fine specimen^was exhibited. It^was obtained in dredging in the Walls*^met river, and was brought up with the^the mud from the bottom. The most re^^markable exhibition of the evening was^the tail of an enormous rattlesnake cap^^tured in Arizonia, on which were no less^thsn 30 rattles. The snake was 8 feet^long, and supposed to be 30 years old.
InSt. Joseph, Mo.. Jan. Gth, s dum^^my engine snd five cars loaded with^iron, were switched off upon a side track^of the St. Joe and Council Bluffs Road.^The brakeman fsiled to stop the cars in^season, snd it being a down grade, the^cars rushed into the Missouri. A ferry^boat that wss about to land was struck^below the gusrds. and had to he steered^to a ssnd bank to prevent its immediate^sinking. Three of the cars plunged oat^ot ^ight snd were lost. The others
recovered. The total loss wss
--12,000.
CertainSwedish philosophers exposed^s condemned criminal to a process that^froze him hard and solid. The body^has been placed in a cold vault, and. in^stter years, it is to be thawed out, the^philosophers claiming that the man will^wske up refreshed and lively after his^long sleep.
Oregonis^ building six railroads.^The population of Oregon exceeds S0,-^000.
TheTruckee river is jammed tor miles^with railroad ties.
TheOdd Fellows ot San Francisco^have a library of lo.OOO volume*.
TheGrecian Bend has^ broke out ^ in^Achison. Kansas, so says the Champion.
Achison.Kansas, is building veloci^^pedes.
Eighthundred gang plows have l^een^sold at Stockton during the po*t reason.
TreasureCity. \\ bite Pin**, has alti^^tude, silver, population and whisk}'
Landis rented in Alameda county at^$0 to $7 per acre this season.
Acanal at the Wallamet Falls, Ore^^gon, is projected. It will cost $300,000.
Thepopulstiou of White Pine district^is estimated at 4,000.
Aboutone hundred tons of codfish^are now curing on the flakes st Sau-^celito.
Aroute for wooden railways from He-^no to Virginia, Nevada, has been sur^^veyed.
JamesHeath Wilmer committed sui^^cide in Mariposa county, Cal., Dec. 22.^by cutting bis throat with a penknife
MissEli/a Pittsinger. formerly a^proof-reader in a Boston printing office^is now a popular California poetess.
TheWhite Pine 2ittt* advises people^to keep away from there this wiuter. it^they would not starve.
Thesteam plow has been successfully^introduced in Santa Clara county, Cali^^fornia.
Overf2.000.000 of debts have been^discharged by parties in Kansas under^the bankrupt law.
Thefirst child l^orn in White Pine^was christened ^Treasurettr.^ by the^delighted parents.
JudgeRolfe, of the Nevada Haz^ttt,^will start a paper shortly st Hamilton,^White Pine.
Itis ninety-five miles from the line^of the Central Pacific Railroad to White^Pine.
Thedeath of a little girl named Agnes^Ijeidig, in the Yosemite Valley, was the^first natural one that has taken place in^that locality.
ASan Francisco banker has erected a^monument in the cemetery near the city-,^in memoiy ot his wife, which cost $2-^,^000 in gold
Mra.tien. Pat E. Connor presented her^intrepid. Salt Lake sailor lord with a^son,at their residence in San Francisco,^a tew days since.
TheSan Diego (Cal.^ l'm^m urges an^appropriation of f 100.000 for throwing^San Diego river into Falfe Bay. which^was its ancient embouchure.
Flaxcan be raised in the vicinity of^Folsom, California, equal to that raised^in Ireland, or in any of the States east^of the Rocky Mountains.
TheVirginia, Nevada. KiUtrprize says^the small pox is increasing fearfully in^that city, snd ap|nars beyond the con^trol of the city authorities.
WilliamSmith, engineer at the Hale^vV Norcross mine, died at Virginia. Ne^^vada, at 11 o'clock. January 4th, of^small pox.
F.L. A. Pioche and M. Noel of San^Francisco, have patented a process for^the reduction ot ores by electricity. It^said to be chaap and simple.
MichaelMalone. a member of the Em^met (inard, was shot, dead at Portland,^Oregon, on the evening of January 1. by^James Hay^'en.
The^ Kansas Wine Company,^ of^Lawrence offers twenty per cent, of its^gross receipts for a month, to the com^^mittee for the relief of the poor.
C.(tudmond. silversmith, ot Sacra^^mento, John Oakley of Nevada and Dan^^iel ti reen wood of Sierra county. Cal.. are^insane.
Thedistance from Elko to Hamilton,^in the White Pine Mines, will probably^be about 115 miles by the road about to^be built between the two places.
Ittook Gen. Geo. B. McClellan nearly^two months to decline the Presidency ot^the I'niversitv of California. How long^would he have been if he had derided to^take it T
TheCentral Pacific Railroad Compa^^ny have now in use 180 locomotives,^2,000 platform cars, 700 box freight cars,^besides a large number of express and^passenger cars.
ABoot Black in San Francisco sent a^present of poisoned figs to a rival. He^was arrested tor attempted murder, but^will probably play the Cole game snd be^acquitted for insanity.
GovernorHsight has appointed Hon.^A. C Adsms of Mokelumne Hill. Calva-^ras County, Judge of the 11th Judicial^District of California, vice Hon. S. W.^Block way, resigned.
JudgeR. L. Woodworth, who was^nominated by President Johnson for the^position of 1^. States Associate Judge of^Arizona Territory, has requested that^his name be withdrawn.
Aboutthe 1st of November, a young^man named George M. Lloyd, nephew^ot B. Holladay, who became inssne from^the effects of the esrthquake shock st^San Francisco, jumped overboard from^the steamer Chrysopolis, and was drown^^ed. The body was found January 3d.
ran Francisco ia velocipeding. They^go out to the Cliff* House on the taro^wheeled buggies, now, in parties of six^or eight, snd it hi thought of sufficient^importance to make a note of the occa^^sions in the telegrams east.
Thefirst twenty miles of the Kansas^City snd Galve^ton Railroad is comple^^ted, and three yesrs is set tor the com^^pletion ot the entire road. Kansas City^is going ahead like a prairie fire. Over^5,000 bouses were built in 1868. Seven^railroads centre there.
TheHidden Treasure 8ilver Mining^Company, capital fSOO.OOO, in White^Pine District, in Nevada^Trustees. Hill^Beachey, John A. McO,uade, C. W. Fox,^G. M Hall and F. G. Smith was incor^^porated in San Francisco, January 4th
AtMeadow Lake, January 3, the snow^was six feet deep on a level, snd in^some places was piled up over twelve^feet. It was with the greatest difficul^^ty thst persons could pass from one^house to another.
Theiron horse resch^*l Echo Citv on i^Fridsy stternoon. filling the Ech ^tes |^with joy (and tarantula juice.) '1 his is |^the neares' point of access to the rail^^road until it reaches the mouth of Web. J^er Canyon.^S^^lt U\ke R*p^jrt^ r.
TheDenver Tri^-:.: is jubilant over a |^new discovery of coal thirty-five miles !^west from thst city, and only one mile !^t roiu'tlie railroad track. The bed is be-^tween five and a half und mx feet wide, j^and the coal is of superior quality.
Duringthe month ot December there^were 484 sales ot real estate in San ^^Francisco, aggregating fl.606.95ll in^value. During the same period there^were 211 mortgages of the value ot I^$139,915 snd 143 releases, amounting to^$212 922.
torthe year ending January 1st, 1^0'.'.^the 1^. P. R. R. did the following busi^^ness for Cheyenne aioin : freight carried,^71.280.655 lbs.; charges, f 1.300.903 48:^amount received for tickets. $324,000.^This includes the Colorsdc business, for^which Cheyenne is tbe depot.
Thegeneral government pays the^Western Union Telegraph Company^forty thousand dollars per annum sub^^sidy on the overland line from Omaha^to San Francisco. A pretty good bonus^on the bes; paying investment in the^United Stat, ft
TheSan Francisco Call tells of a^newspaper reporter who ^ wrung in ^ on^a private party, and while taking an in^^ventory of the plate, etc., for publica^tion, was walked out by a policeman at^the request of the proprietor ot the^bouse. If it had been anybody else^than a newspaper reporter he would^probably have taken the ^ plate, ttc,^^and let the inventory hold over.
Awriter to the Nevada Ent^rpri-e,^writing from White Pin^- -trongly^speaks of the folly lor people to rush to^White Pine at the present season. The^letter closes with the following admoni^^tion to those desiring to go thither at^once: ^As they value their health, and^even life itselt. again I say do not come^here now.
TheColorado Tranfirript lays claims^to having fir^t nominated Grant for^the Presidency About nine hundred^ninnies have claimed that before, Mr^T^miturrtpt. Don't you think it was his^mother first named (nominated) him.^for that place, or any other he has ac^^cepted
Elkois the name of the new town on^the Central Pacific railroad, trom which^it has been finally decided to construct^the new stage road to Hamilton in the^White Pine mines. Elko is situated^at Hot Spring-, near the bank ot the^Humboldt river. al^out twenty-five miles^east of Maggie creek and fifteen miles^west of the north fork ot the Humboldt.
Married.At the residence of the^bride's father, in Sioux City. Iowa, on^Thursday eveniug. Dec. 24th, by Hev.^G. B. Pratt. John L Boogb to Miss^Alice GoEWEY. both of Sioux City.
ManyMontanians will join their home^friends and the ,/^^^//i-^/ in wishing^them a happy, gay dash on the course^of ^true love.
Koomfor the track of the iron horse,^is the cry in Web#T Canyon, and the^work is crowded from Monday morning^till Saturday night, with an energy that^knows no cessation, no let up. Mr. S.^J. Jonasson, from whom we letrned the^particulars ot the big blast, tells us that^in about tix weeks the whole of the^grading in Weber Canyon will be ready^for track laying.^TtUgraph.
Anold land s:ide. at the mouth of^Weber Canyon, on Messrs. Sharp and^Voung's contract, that impeded the pro^gress ot grading, was lately mined to a^depth of fifty bet. Forty-three kegs ot^powder was placed in a chamber ot the^mine, and yesterday, at noon, it was ig-^uited. The explosion blew from its an^^cient bed eight or ten thousand yards of^rock and dirt.
LastFriday stternoon, says the Stock^^ton (Cal.,) Independent of January 4, a^man named John Clugston. a native of^Michigan, aged 33 years, suddenly ex^^pired in sn epileptic fit, while fitting in^a chair in George Nelson's saloon Centre^street. Yesterday morning, John B.^Hill, a native of Missouri, ageu about 48^years, was found dead in his bed. ut Mr.^Kelly s hotel. V\ eb^-r svenue.
Agentleman from Provo informs us^that Chauncy Millard, alias George, in^the District Court, st Provo City, was^tried, conv icted ot murder in the first de^^gree, and sentenced to be shot by Judge^Drske.for the murder of Harlan P. Sweet,^near Pelican point, on Friday afternoon,^the 11th December last. Tne criminal^ia to be executed at Provo City, on^Friday, the 29th Inst.^ Wf Lake Tele^^graph.
Gov.Height ot California has com^^muted to imprisonment tor life the sen^^tence of Richard Thompson, convicted^in Lassin County. June 1867, of murder^in the first degree, and sentenced af. the^October term, 1868, ot the District Court^of the Second Judicial District, to be ex^^ecuted December 18, which execution^the Governor postponed to January 22.
It'stoo bad: Just as Helena was com^^placently spreading its feathers over^lender triplets, snd called a ^show^down^ with ^three queens,^ Iowa comes^in with ^three fours^ snd s ^pair of^deuces^ snd rakes the board. There's^a ^cold deck^ out somewhere. It Iowa^don't have its hands full with that full^hand of^what are those cards that are^cut narrow at one endV^it will prove to^have the besi. system of ^infantry tac^^tics^ extant.
TheUtah Legislature was organized^Jan. 11th, by the election of tl;e follows^ing officers:
HocsEOrson Pratt, Speaker.
RobertL. Campbell. Chief Clerk.
JosephC. Rich. Assistant Clerk.
F.S. Richards, Engrossing Clerk.
S.H. B. Smith. Sergeant-sUArms.
AbinadiPratt, Messenger.
Geo.W. Slsde, Foreman.
Wm.W. Phelps. Chsplsin.^Council,^Hon. Geo. A. Smith, Pres t.
PatrickLynch, Secretary.
CharlesW. Stainer. Assistant.
J.D. T. McAlister, 8ergeant-at-Arms.
CharlesW. Carrington, Messenger.
CharlesW. Smith, Foreman.
JosephYoung. Sen., Chaplain.
Theofficers were sworn in by his Ex^^cellency, Acting Governor Edwin Hig-^ffina. Secretary of the Territory.^Salt^Lake Reporter.
Therewere 14,143 funerals in Phila^^delphia last year, and thirtv-rHne mur^^ders.
SPLAV.
Jerusalemhas a steam mill.^Florence has a five-story theatre.^Psris is luxuriating on besr steaks.^Chang refuses to cut loose from Eng.^The Erie warriors are all Vermouters.^Tostee is confidentially said to be 40.^Bostoniaiis drink hot soda water.^Kosa Bonheur makes *1G.0(MJ a yar.^Small-pox is raging In Cincinnati.^Beecher defends lotteries.^Patti is coming to America.^Th* City is the last New York journal.
O for a thousand tongues !^ as the^1. iv remarked when inside a molasses,^Hogshead.
(tiltfurniture is fashionable jnsl now^in New York upper-tendom drawing^rooms.
CharlesM. Barras, of ^Black Crook^^fame i* building himself S ataMhoaseaa^Long Island.
Adamwhen tired ot naming his d^-^cend^nts, said, ^let all the rest 1m* called^Smith.
MarkAntlionv s appeal adapted to^cold weather^1*1 leads, Romans^. ^'oun^^trymen. lend me your ear-mutl's
Montreal hns had over 100 deatUs
Porte Crayon ^ is in the lecture from small-pox in the five weeks ending
field.
CornellCollege (Iowa) has 200 stu^^dents.
ThePrincess Salm-Salm has a little^him.
Traintoots up his assets at, $6,000.00.^The ass sets it pretty high.
TheFrench voteWilkie Collins above^Dickens as a literarv man.
Jan.26th.
TheTreasurer of the German Pro^' testant Church in Cincinnati, has ab-^i sconded. a defaulter in $8,300^i American corn-cobs are sold in the^| streets of LondDn, as ^ Patent tip^-;int^^ers^eight tor a penny.
Thereare 78,000 rum-sellers in IVnn^^, i svlvania, and 16,879 school teachers^A new species of cotton, called ' lace, aj^ga 0f supporting schools, $5.^i^i:;.7:,D^is being raised in Texas.value of liquor consumed, $31.4*7.000
Bulweris writing a iife of Palmer-. lioldrick's 7^^AAy M-^^,tai.. II r, \%^ston.^ t,iie worst pa|^er in America^lor edi-
LadyFranklin is a woman suffragist, tors. It is too handsome to clip, and^The Bible is now printed in 200 dif- ! still we can t help it.^ferent languages.My ^notion ot a wife at forty,^ ^a.id
Theyear ot Jubal E has come^re- Jerrold. ^is that a man should be able to^turn, ye'wandering sinners, home., change her, like a bank note, for two
Troyhas projected a velocipede tour^^nament next September.
Doesa man consider a woman a poem^when she is a verse to him 1
Songfor Magistrates^^Let us speak^of a man as we've fined him.
Itis pro]^osed to make Alaska a penal^settlement.
Of700,000 children in Missouri, only^100,000 attend Sunday Schools.
BrickPorreroy is a grandson of tien.^Horatio Gates.
TheNew Jersey Camden and Amboy^monopoly expired with last year.
Velocipedesleeve buttons in bronze,^are the latest agony.
Florida.Mass., has a lady cobbler.
(tailHamilton will winter ia New^York
NewHaven has a tavern called^tor House. Jr.'
Thirteen|^ersons were lynched in In^^diana during the last six months.
Thereare said to be 5,000 photo^^graphers in the United States.
Apopular New York organist per^^forms at weddings for $100 a tune.
Athread mill in Holyoke, Massachu^^setts, strings out 25,000 spools daily.
TheBrooklyn. N. Y., ferry-boats car^^ry 20,000,000 passengers annually.
Ellio'.treceived seventy-five cents for^the first picture sold by him.
twenties.
An insane man killed himself at ^^lKiarding house in Allegany, Pa., Tuea.^; day, by undertaking to ^syringe out^ Ml^ear with a pistol.
Awidow, resident of Fon du Lac.^! Wis., has Major Andres watch, )^enrinr^^ his name on its back, with the date^1774 She wants to sell it.
Anarmy surgeon claims to have in^i vented electro music, by which one per%^i former can play a brass band in half a^dozen different cities at once.
Anephew ot Sir Walter Scott^Wm^\ Scott, son ot Sir Waiter Scott's brother^' Daniel^is an inmate ot tbe charitable^^Home^ ot tbe St. Andrew Societv ot^Montreal.
The invitations to a tin wedding^i wnich was attended iu New York, a^lew days since, were handsomely en-^As- graved on highly polished bits of tin.^jot about the size of an ordinary card^A grave-stoue in the Ssckville (Ct)^cemetery has this epitaph :
'In memory of Jane Bent.^Who kicked up her heels and away sh^^went.
TheodoreTilton's idea of the millen-^iuin is the time when every wo:u;\u wi^:^have a wedding ring on her linger and^a ballot in her hand.
RossBrowne has injured his personal^appearance by tailing on his nose, be^^ing thrown out of a carriage at Shang-^hae.
Cambridge,Mass.. has :15.000 people, At % reCent fire m Concord, a stream^and is worth $30,000,000.Qf water from a ste un fir.-engin ^ -tr ick
Norwich(Conn.) used velocipedes the left eye ot a fireman with each fort'^^sixty years ago.as t ^ drive it out el its socket.
AChieagoan has invented a one- , The new Lord Chancellor ot (treat^wiit-t-l.-.i velocipede.' Britain. Sir W. Page Wood, tak-s his
JayCooke has taken hold of the IIoo- seat the House of Lords a* Baron^sac tunnel project.
Danawill not refuse a foreign mission^if one is offVred.
Family dismemberment ^ is the^Chicago word for divorce.
WendellPhillips calls magnanimity^^sentimental mush.
Onlysixty duels have been fought by^Paul de Cassagnac, editor of the Paris
TheNewport Se^cn pats its announce^^ment of births under the head of ^New^Music.
Henryflays son Theodore, is an in^^mate ot the lunatic asylum at Lexing^^ton.
Hatherly,of Hatherly, in the couuty ot^Gloucester.
Gen.G. Clay Smith, late (iov.-rn : at^Montana, has purchased a farm in Scott^county, Ky.. where he will in the future^reside, and follow the pursuits of agri^^culture.
Howmany children have I^^ asked^a weman of a spirit-rapper. ^Four^^ And how many have 1 V ^ ask^l her^husband '' Two,^ wa^ the astonishing^reply. A mistake souiewher^\
Anexchange says, with truth, wha;^an American invests in horses and mule*^an Englishman invests in good r^adj^aud the latter investment, in the long^run. is the l*etter.
TheNew York Tribune says there^are more agricultural implements in tlie^new State of Iowa thau in (ieroiany^Spain, Italy, Turkey. Russia, Africa and^Asia.
Thenext style of bonnet is to be a^bead and two inches of ribbou, lastened^with a hair pin.
ANew Orleans paper quotes burglary^in that city rather suffer, with a tenden^cy to more extensive operations.Mr8 sackett, ot Bedford. Wayne
Gen.(ieorge W. Cole, the Hiscock county. Mich , recently gave birth to I^murderer, is now living with his wife at child, and one week thereafter was de^^Trumansburg. New York.l.vered of two more children. The two
Disappointedoffice-seekers need not ' litter and the mother died,^starve in Washington. Soup houses^are established there.
Aprinter puts a ^c^ for sn ^h,^ and^makes a reporter say, ^A locomotive^went over a cow, and cut it into calre*
TheLincoln monument is to be built^from tbe foundation rock, twenty feet^below the surface of the soil.
GeneralMcClellsn is to address the^Mercantile Library Association in Bos^^ton on the 22d ot February.
Ayonng lady in New Albanv received \to the ^Grand Duchess, .n jrtW
sixtycalls on New Year's da^. and sang | ^^ladyship henpecks Prince Paul a*^^Captain Jinks ' fifty-five times. U
Ifa man is murdered by his workmen,^should the coroner render a verdict ot^killed by his own hands
Thechief business of Spain, just^now, is paid to be selling lottery tick^^ets.
JohnRussell Young denies thst he is^to resign the managing editorship of^the New York Tribune.
Th Mississippi Valley Telegraph^line, extending from St. Paul to St^Louis, is now in successful operation^It is the intention to extend it t^ Wsw^Orleans.
Alarge brick block on Monroe street.^Lynn, Mass., containing extensive shoe^manufacturies, and five stores,^burned on the 26th ot Januarv. Lost^$200,000.
Offenbach is said to be engaged on i
rhich
Afestive old gent of seventy made^over ^sixty^ calls in New York on New^Years Day.
Apumpkin pie nine feet in diameter^was exhibited st a r^.^ent Fair at Ports^^mouth, N. H.
Theunfinished high school building^in Oshkosh, Wis., has already cost fifty-^three thoussnd dollars.
'' a blacksmith flattens out the^her pa.
Homeris supposed to have been tbe^first to notice the Grecian bend, in the^following lines from the text of the^Iliad :
Lo,hers) tbe wretched A ftametnooii stands^Tbe unhappy ft-eoers.1 of the Grecian bands.^Whom Jure decrees with daily cares to^Ex-Queen Isabella sleeps sixtest^hours out of twenty-four, and p**ssi^the remaining eight hours in eating ^^great deal more than is goixi tor ber^chatting with her maids and children^and driving oat for an hour or two.
Chinamenin gangs of halt a doe*^j directed by a seventh Chinaman cos*'^J the silver coin in the Bank ot Cali'o'*^j nis, in San Francisco. It is said m^are too skillful to be cheated with spa^*^i ous coin.
ALondon letter writer says that Mrs
Tandem teams, hitched to two-^wheeled vehicles, are the style on Cen- | Louis Jennings,^nre ^ Madeline H^n*^tral Park, riques.^ will soon return to New lork
Thechief engineer of a French rail- . Incompatibility of temperament De-^way having died recently, five thousand tween her new husband and h'.'.*-^J': ^^workmen followed him to the grave. j intimated to be the cause.
Lynchingis now described as ^a man i Senator Cole is ssid to be worth^^kicking st the United States lrom the million dollsrs, snd i*. hss cost him D^^^end of a tight-rope.^j far trom $50,000 to secure his brother*
TheSiamese twins have finallv des ' ac**uUtal of the murder of Hiscock^cidsd not to be severed. They are t^ ^d Jame* T BrmU* *5-000 for h
1vices in the trial.
Adrunken Csr^\ ate in his corapa^tion, ordered him halt,^ si ' n^oring to assume a firm position and ta^^with severity, exclaimed:^Smith, ~^to^di
muchattached to each other
Chicagoreporters now call dentists^^task holsters,^ and blacksmiths ^vnl-^canista.
Itis estimated that there are 225,000^threshing machines in the United States^without counting the ^ school-marms.
Itis considered cool to take a man's , ~^hat with his name written in it, simply am, (.hie) I'll give yon till five o'clock^because you want his autograph,I gissober in.
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