OCR Text |
Show Another efi'ort is making in England to abolish the system of purchasing commissions in the arm'. In tbis country there are three hundred hun-dred piano manufactories, making annually an-nually 21,500 instruments. The colored Baptists of Kentucky are to have a theologp;al school at Frankfort, and hare bought fifty acres f land for the purpose. A. Maryland farmer refused the nso of his horse for a funeral, and the indignant in-dignant friends of the decesacd tarred and feathered him. The most accomplished shoplifter and pickpocket of Omaha, is faid to be a girl who has not yet attained her thirteenth year. Europeans are rapidly copying American Amer-ican institutions. The l'rench have lynched a German spy disguised as one of the National Guard. A Chicago paper recommends "another "ano-ther flagrant fiction impaled upon the fork of fact," as an improrement upon the familiar phrase, "another lie nailed." At Terre Haute, Ind., a man recently successfully repulsed threo highway robbers, because he "had only thirty cents, and would be dreffle dry in the morning." At Napa, C'a!., a boy fifteen years old killed an Indian girl, and the jury acquitted him, on the ground that he was not of sufficient age te know right from wrong. All the mills in Maine hare been started again by the fall rains. Many of ihem had been stopped a long time for want of water, and the losses to owners and operatives are heavy. In the United States just now there are twenty-seven young women studying study-ing theology, with a view to becoming preachers ; nineteen are studying law and sixty-seven are stndying medicine. Fifty Chinamen are soon to be settled set-tled in Shelby county,-Iowa, for the purpose of improving and opening up farms. This is simply an experiment; but if it proves successful, a large number num-ber are to be brought in. Some clever fellow has manufactured hankerchiefs upon which a map of the seat of war in Europe is stamped. They have proved an immense success, suc-cess, everybody wishing to poke their nose into the scene of conflict without personal danjer. It is said there is no hope of there ever being a large supply of female type-setters in the market. As soon as a girl becomes a proficient and valuable val-uable compositor some male printer marries her, and that puts an end to her work in the printing office. A newly-married lady in Chicigo complained to her ma, that on her reception re-ception day her card basket was overrun over-run with circulars from lawyers, announcing an-nouncing terms for divorce "So absurd, you know, Ma. before our honeymoon is over." ' True, dear," replied Ma, (who had been twice divorced), di-vorced), ' but I'd put them in a safe place; you may find them very useful in a year or two." |