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Show IMC MIVGS. j lUiode Inland is in favor of nairow-guagc nairow-guagc railroad, iu order that both rails may Ho within her Territory. Kieh visitors to Farts- -ay that there is as much gond cooking and good wine in llictiy capital as th:re i-ver Wa5. Orders liavo boon iven to ri'p'ant tl;e lijia de Buulone aud Mcndon with trees lit teen or twenty yoars of age. A California dog deliberately committed com-mitted suicide by going before a locomotive loco-motive and btoioally awaiting its approach. ap-proach. Brigbani Young, as seen by Gnur Greenwood, is a well -droned ibgnitiod old gentleman, with a pale, mild face, a tk'ar, gray eye, a pleasant sitiin1, a courteous address, ami willial a atri-arehal, atri-arehal, paternal air. A man entered one of l he Jtutland (Vt.) clothing stores the other day and desired "to look over the girls'' in order or-der timt he "might select a wife" for himself and one lor his brother. The request was granted. The French war department has prohibited the circulation of newspapers newspa-pers in the camps and barracks of tlie army. Tho "Kcpublie" that resorts to such a measure as thU can hardly be worth the saving. Shirley )aro advises all women to learn laeo-makinir, furniture-polishing, bread orbed making, enough (o live by, beforo they practice with the pen. If you lean on it, she says, it will pierce like a thorn through your hand. A Brooklyn husband who was kissing kiss-ing tho chambermaid a little was surprised sur-prised by his wile, but got off with only one black eye by quoting Mrs. Stanton, who says "the freer the relation:; between be-tween human beings the happier." Arkansas papers Mato that, tbo Pennsylvania Central railroad will complete the consttuction of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, with a view of ! making that tho through line to the I'acilic by the thirty second parallel. A Chinese-Knglish dictionary has been completed in Foocbow, which is a marvel of work and complexity. Rev. Justin J)oolitt!e is the success fit 1 accomplisher of tho work, assisted by twelve or thirteen native Chinese scholars. A lady of Onondaga county, N. Y., carries oft' the champion somnambulist. somnambu-list. She dreamed the other night that her father was dangerously ill, and immediately arose from her bed, and walked liflecn miles before she was awakened. Judge McKinstry, of Mobile, lately drew a pistol in a playful southern way on an associate, out iinauy tnougnt better about firing it and returned it to his pocket, when it exploded, indicting indict-ing a dangerous if not fatal wound in his own back. French papers place the wheat crop of France tho present season at 10,40"),-000 10,40"),-000 hcctollitres (a heotollitro is 27,512 Winchester bushels) below tho consumptive con-sumptive demand, which is considered a very favorable exhibit. In 1S01 the deficit was twenty millions. A gentlemen "whose scientific attainments attain-ments have made his name a household house-hold word in all lands," lias been investigating in-vestigating the social evil in Boston, and finds that a large proportion of the "soiled doves" trace their fall to influences influ-ences which have met them in the public schools of that city. An interesting report has lately been published by Mr. liedgravc, a British factory inspector, concerning tho hours of labor iu tho leading manufacturing districts of England, showing that fifty-seven hours per week is the aver-ago aver-ago time the working classes labor, so that the employers will only loso three hours per week on each laborer if the nine-hour rule prevails. If Mr, Redgrave Red-grave is correct, the workingmen of gland hardly average as many hours per day as their American brothers. |