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J jai?jjest Circulat iont- . U-lil JJ!—11 1A Miss Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to the Philadelphia Press to s(ale that “the moustache of Madame MacMahon has sickened {pewith theSeptennale.For waking seventy-two button holes and sewing seventy-two buttons and thirty-six ‘stays’ on fianel shirts, a sewing girl in liew Yock gets twenty-five cents.Tourists in Florida complain that hotel keepers there deceive them by serving canned vegita-hles represented to be “fresh from our garden not a it hopr ogo.”Charles Warren Stoddard does not believe the day of judgement could take the awful chilliness out of the ordinary Veniiinnhouses, until every refrigeratoron the earth had become red hotTom Huges, author of “Tom Brown Dt Rugby,” is writing up his old friend Cannon Kingsley, whom he calls “Farson Lot.” This title would involve Mrs. Kingsley in a pretty picklc.— [Chicago Tribune.The chief topic qf interest in Philadelphia at present is the Martha Washington tea parly now being held in aid of the Centennial. Two houses are crowded nightly with an attendance of at least G,G00 personsRhinoceroses are quoted n[from $4,000 to $5,00Q each. The close approximation between the value of an average rhinoceros and an average Congressman is, to say the least, striking —[St. Louis RepublicanIn the recent snow storm a favorite breeding ewe of the Che^ viol class, belonging to Mr. Elliot of Hindhope, in England, was imprisoned in the snow for a month. Notwithstanding this Jong imprisonment, the ewe, when recovered, was still alive, and is now doing well.A Boston genUenian of the tobacco chewing proclivities, in response to his wife’s wish that he would get cqspidores, procured a hogshead, had it sawed in two, painted green, and then both halves fjled with *vhile sand and located in his back parlor. She thinks she could have made a belter selection, and says it all rornes from letting him choose.It certainly looks a little oddwhen a married couple are visiting at a friend’s house to see the .wife accidentally lay her Jiand upon the coal-shovel, and the husband, as jf by instinct, dodge behind the nearest objectthat can afford him shelter.Two ounces of common lobac-po boiled in a gallon of water isused by the Chatham street dealers Tor renovating old clothes. The stuff is rubbed on with a stiff brush. The goods are nicely , cleaned, and, stjange to add, (to tobacco smell remains.A Detroit woman refused to speak to her husband for several weeks because he went away to business one morning wiihout kissing her good-by. The joke of the mailer was that the poor man didn’t know all this time how he had offended her.A cheerful whist'e of a dark night, from a man approaching or coming behind you on some jonely road, is reassuring evidence that he is not the bearer of a slingshot ora garroter, since q person or criminal intent never indulges in lively music.By five qualities njay a fool be known: Anger wiihout cause; speech without motive; inquiry wiihout an object; pulling trust in aslranger; and wanting capability of divscriminaling between a foe and friend.Sensibly shaped shoes are at last in vogue. The newest give ease and handsome shape to the foot, and do not cramp it i no an unnatural size. Yet some ladies will insist that their shoes are a ‘‘mile too big for them!”A District Court in Texas has made a decision worthy the sharpest days of special pleading. The respondents were indicted for stealing onions. The fragrant frpit was converted while growing in a garden and had not been detached from the soil previous to the taking, It was held by the qqu *t that wh«le growing 1 he onions were a part of the realty and not an opjppt of larceny, while as soon as detached they were in the possession of the respondents, neyef having been in the possession of the complainant after becoming personal properly. : Hence the respondents were simply guilty of trespass on real property.- - •*•: ■*111I1F
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Bowling Green Clay County Weekly Herald
Bowling Green, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 18, 1875
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