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Show VARIETIES. A stock-breeder in Texas lately lost 31 head of cattle from hydrophobia. The alligator that swallowed a cor-aet cor-aet is dead. It stayed on his stomach. Oregon has a new town called Pay Up. It is said lo be a good place for settlement. President Grant says he hopes to visit San Francisco next summor and make more than a two day's stay. An Indiana court has decided that a girl may, if she wishes, simultaneously simultane-ously suo ti fly young men lor breach of promise. Ladv to Walter Don't put that ice into the goblet with your linger. Walter Lor' ma'am, I don't mind: my hands are very warm. Pnil Sheridan drives a carriage team of four black mules of great beauty and speed, and tho five are the objects of universal acmiration in Chicago. A ghost which haunted a Massachusetts Massa-chusetts schoolhouse for months, and frightened one teacher into spurns, turns out to have been a torn cat in the garrnt. A man at Liverpool has been sentenced sen-tenced to two month's imprisonment because ho believed in not sparing the red-hot poker that hia child might not be spoiled. A Mr. Clout man, of Farmington, Mass., on a $5 wager drew a 130-pound 130-pound neighbor of his in a trotting gig eight miles in two hours and fifty seconds, lust week. Grant thinks the inflation idea is bo firmly fastened on the democratic . party, that the republicans will have to march in the presidential campaign I under tho banner of resumption. The Missouri sheriffs, now allow the condemned prisoners to he down in their coffins and sec if they will fit, and permit them other privileges,such as seeing the scaffold built, feeling the rope, etc. It is estimated that the total cost of the new buildings put up in Chicago since the great fire, numbering between be-tween eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred, hns been between $16,000,-000 $16,000,-000 and $1S,000,000. A shoal of mackerel came into New York harbor the other day, enabling en-abling tho people on the wharves to scoop them up in hats, bonnets, baskets, bask-ets, and buckets. All of the fish wero of extreme size and fat. A Sacramento paper wants tho government to assist in the recovery of Virginia city by the erection of government buildings there. Salt Lake, too, has a burned district, which the government might usefully cover with a magnificent edifice. It is said that a scientific gentleman of New York, has discovered a process by which he is enabled to estimate the body of ore contained in a mine just opened; but there is nothing difficult in this feat, the only i trouble being to make the amount ol urt3 ijuiitspunu miu luu tmiuiiuiu. Mr, Wood, a London sculptor, who has earned a high reputation by big late works, has been commissioned lo execute threo figures, of heroic size, representing Michael Angelo, Raphael, Raph-ael, and the genius of art, for the Walker art gallery at Liverpool. "Kate Putnam's company was here last week," says the Danbury Xacs, "and a young Danbury clerk who gels $10 a week took his girl every evening at 7 cents a seat, leaving him just $1 of his week's salary to meet current expenses. And yet people talk of the decline of chivalry." chi-valry." "A lawyer," in the Now York Sun, is surprised that Judge Neilson should have been asked to grant a nolle prosequi in the Beecher-Moulton indictment in-dictment by tho attorney general, when at common law the entry of such a motion is wholly within the control of- the prosecutor, the courL having nothing to do with it. |