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Show INKLINGS. i peer are rery abundant in Virginia this season. Massachusetts is making large quantities quan-tities of cartridge paper for France. Mr. Smith of Ohio had to change his name to DeForeat Montpensier before be-fore his girl would marry him. A large number of Indiana ladies have associated for the purpose of "freeing themselyes from the thraldom thral-dom of fashion." The Mississippi Supreme Court has decided that railroads are liable for damages for carrying passengers beyond be-yond their destination. Gen. Leo's family hare selected Col. Charles Marshall, of Baltimore, his prirate secretary during the war, to prepare the memorial volume of his fife. Although Russia delights to display on her coins and postage stamps the effigy of the double-headed eagle, she is not an eagle at all.but nly a Turkey-gobbler. Turkey-gobbler. Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, France and the United States, six of the eight foremost nations in the world, hare a legal-tender paper with a forced circulation. circu-lation. e;- .p l- century, eighty-six English patents and twenty-three French ones, for perpetual perpet-ual motion, have been granted or applied ap-plied for. A poor but honest youth at Wilmington, Wil-mington, N. C, was recently encouraged encour-aged to be good and virtuous by a reward re-ward of ten cents for finding and restoring re-storing to the owner a pocket-book containing t42j. The Governor of the great and sovereign sov-ereign State of Rhode Island and Providence Prov-idence Plantations, in official documents docu-ments designates himself as Governor, Captain-General, and Commander-in-Chief. Califovnians, owing to the alkaline taste of most of the water in the State, are the greatest coffee drinkers in the country, the average yearly consumption consump-tion being 16 3-5 pounds, while in the Union at large the average is only 7 pounds. For an ingenious combination of the wisdom of the serpent with the harm-lessnees harm-lessnees of the dove, the iioston clergy are peculiar. Last Sunday week a number num-ber of them preached theirThanksjriving sermons in advance, so as to be "sure of audiences." In Ilartford, Conn., not long since, a cat got into a coal bin and five tons of Lehigh coal were dumped in on top of her. When her cries were heard, the coal was removed, and she was taken out alive, and is now a special pet in the family. |