| Show t EDITORIAL NOTES the T e surest S way to catch cold and have a chronically tender throat is to wear a warm muffler round the neck in cold coid weather athe the first lucifer match was made in 1829 1 what a number of lucifer matches men and women have made since cider older dried appi appl apples and rhubarb juice are used very extensively for foe the manufacture of champagne in this count country zy the champagne thus made costs from five to twenty cents a bottle the farmers of county wisconsin are raising such large quantities of amber sugar cane that they hope soon to save the state of wisconsin the trouble of sending down aown south for its sugar and syrup syrupy some grim people have bave said that there is no record to the effect that jesus christ ever si smiled A little girl who heard some one say this replied dianthe he say suffer little children to come unto me an 1 they would not bave have come unless he had smiled 2 there are miners enough at si iver reen beef and some to spare the miner advises men who intend to winter at that place to take enough of the fl needful with them to pay their way as there is is no prospect for employment too many laborers already for the amount of work to be done the sarcophagus of roger of tuscany bishop of lausanne who was buried in lausanne cathe iral irai in 1220 was opened a few weeks ago the body was almost intact the features tures were perfectly recognizable and the six and a half centuries had natt sufficed to destroy the texture of bis his official robes adjutant general drum the temporary girar y head of the signal bureau has el as inaugurated a system of frost signals for the south which promise to be of especial benefit to the cotton and sugar planters his warnings have so far been verified and in one instance at least did material service arga area arrangements n cements have been made in washington to prevent the proposed sale for debt of mrs eos Fos fossetta posse Fosse tVs painting of the electoral commission influential gentlemen will it is said advance the necessary ry money and attempt to reimburse themselves by securing an appropriation from congress for the purchase of the painting no offer from individuals vi duals of amounts nearly equal to the artists estimation of the value of the ther painting hav have e been received I 1 many lany clergymen in this country have lately received a circular from a london dealer in secondhand second hand sermons he offers sermons litho graphed arl ad in a bold round hand so that tha those who ha happened ed to see bee them would suppose that they ey were manuscript for 25 cent cents each or 20 a hundred he has hag a line of cheaper sermons in print at 10 cents a pite pie warranted orthodox and others a little more empens expensive ive lve t 1 ia which have ica a pleasantness yet an awful solemnity about them an italian correspondent of the new york herald says that after rome and genoa venice is is plo probably bably the richest city in italy vence venee vence is almost free from debt this gentleman says that three venetians are each worth more than about two hundred families own more that each three thousand venetians are employed in the making bf tf glass beads there is a handsome trade in combing or sorting 1 ng hemp travelers who go to venice look at the gondolas and feed th the e pigeons pi gens a and nd fancy that because th the e bells beils t ells eils of horses are not ringing and the drivers are not quarreling rig there is much less trade there than there is the japanese are exceedingly apt at imitating the ways and improvements of the nations with which they become acquainted and this holds good in regard to the arts of war as well as of peace as the future enemies of tb those ose people will discover perhaps to their cost in 1872 ja japan n established an arsenal at tokio tzi 0 isaga and OJ 1 on plans furnished by french artillery officers three years later so well had the native workmen learned their duties the tokio arsenal turned out caps ball and blank cartridges snider cartridges and 26 boo rounds of artillery ammunition at the osaka arsenal during the first year of its completion fown u er bronze ronze field guns were finished and four mountain howitzers howit besides the wood and iron work of several field batteries and sets of harness and horse equipments the value of a married woman who will elope from her lawful spouse was well illustrated in ila wisconsin a couple of weeks ago mrs greene and mr belknap eloped together at melrose 1 fe irose wis they drove a good horse rapidly but had not gone more than ten miles before they heard a clatter of hoofs behind greene had hastily mounted and started in pursuit the race was strong and exciting but the husband at length rode alongside th the e pair pair cocked a pistol and commanded a halt was ab abject eject with terror you may have your wife Wf elfr elir Mr greene he said eel ell dont want her greene replied you dont think uve chased you like mad to get herback berback her back oh no but ill pil take tak e my dollar and a half ashes go got in her pocket the money was given up and the elopement proceeded quiet IY new york is the pivotal state without its votes motes neither party is sure of the election it is probable that the largest vote ever cast will be given tomorrow to morrow the registration in the city this year is very large arge in 1876 the total registration in in the city was while in in the present year it has reached the surprising figure of or an increase of the registration for 1880 is in the ratio of two voters in every 11 in the entire population of in indianapolis the vote was equal to one in every four of the inhabitants so we may estimate the newt newil york city vote on tuesday at about an increase of over 1876 the republicans estimate their vote at in that city which chieh will give the democrats majority to go into the state with adding the democrats es timatea majo malo majority rity of in kings county the republicans must go to spuyten duyvil duyvis with over majority to carry the state |
