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Show Scvon youns Indies want to bo clerk of the llliaoia legislature this winter. iilichipan silver mines this year have yielded about $ 1,000,(0 worth ol'ore. i The Chinese now mil fioc cut tobacco to-bacco with their opium to give it more flavor. The supreme court of Indiana has 1 decided that neproca and whiles may not marry. A Kansas man is reported to be suffering suf-fering with hydrophobia i'rom his wife's having bitten him. Vermont has over twenty houses which are seventy-five years old, and one church built in 1707. ' The Norwich Advertiser suggests "E Pluribus Unum" as a good name for the son of a Mormon. There arc three towns in Massachusetts Massachu-setts over 00 years old, which havo never had a building burned down. In a Virginia town, a ball was held in a furniture wareroom, and tho orchestra or-chestra was perched on a pile of coffins. cof-fins. The first New York lady who had the honor of dancing with Alexis was Miss Nellie Murphy, at Fort Wads-worth. Wads-worth. Sis hundred printers were employed in Chicago before tho lire; but daring this winter only two hundred will be employed. A ghost that for several weeks has been haunting a house in Kentucky was caught recently, and proved to be a big rattlesnake. Potter Palmer, the Chicago millionaire, million-aire, is living in a shanty on the edge of the prairie same as he was a being mado of common clay. The Chicago Journal considers the destruction of about a cart load of "original poetry" in its office as the most gratilying feature, of the fire. The Fcejee Islanders aro said to kill only boys about twelve years old for supper, and thoy do ao because children chil-dren of that age aro naturally Feejec-tea. Feejec-tea. At ao anti-vaecinationist meeting recently re-cently held in Manohestor, tho resolution resolu-tion "That vaccination does not prevent small-pox, but doubles disease and death," was unanimously adopted I The New York Evening Mail says that many persons who loll hack iu their handsomc carriages on Fifth avenue av-enue look as cross and solemn as if they were riding to their own funeral I A gentleman having just lost his wife, visited a friend; and being asked how long he would remain in town answered: ans-wered: "Oh, for about a fortnight long enough (o spend the honeymoon of my widowhood." The minister in charge of a colored church in Washington is creating quite an excitement by denouncing the colored col-ored people living together as man and wife w'thout marrying, and threatening threaten-ing to turn all out of tho church and not baptize their children who do not in a given time procure license and he married. One side of a house at JJighton, Mass., has just been rcshinglcd for the first time since the house was built, 77 years ago. A large part ef tho old shingles aro but little worn. They are made of southern cedar, and the nails were all made by hand. The west, side of the roof, which is lc.is exposed to storms, will apparently last manyycai'3 longer. Atlanta, Ga., has had an explosion of fire crackers. Three loads of the playthings were taken into a store, and five minutes altcrwards ono of the boxes box-es exploded, on bcb.g opened, resulting result-ing in a complete cleaning out of everything every-thing in the store, animate and inanimate. inani-mate. Fortunately no one sustained any serious injury. The whole neighborhood neigh-borhood for a time was in a very lively condition. |