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null?jjest Circulation.I ) 1. 111 1 1 11 .!A Miss Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to the Philadelphia Press to s)ate that “the moustache of Madame MacMahon has sickened nie with theSeptennate.For waking seventy-two button holes and sewing seventy-two buttons and thirty-six ‘stays’ on fianel shirts, a sewing girl in liew York gels lyventy-fivecents.Tourists in Florida complain thttt hotel keepers there deceive them by serving canned vegita-bles represented to be “fresh from our garden not an hopr ogo.”Charles Warren Stoddard does not believe the day of judgement could take the awful chilliness out of the ordinary Venitinn houses, until every refrigerator on the earth had become red hotTom Huges, author of “TomBrown at Rugby,” is writing up his old friend Cannon Kingsley, whom he calls “Farson Lot.” This title would involve Mrs. Kingsley in a pretty pickle.— [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,000 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 gentleman of the tobacco chewing proclivities, in response to his wife’s wish that jie would get cyspidores, pro-rured a hogshead, had it sawed in two, painted green, and then both halves filed with »vhile sand and located in his back parlor. She thinks she could have made a belter selection, and says it all comes 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, stiange to add, po tobacco smell remains.A Detroit woman refused tospeak to her husband for severalweeks because he went away to*business one morning without 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 whistle 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 p person or criminal intent never indulges in lively music.By five qualities may a fool be known: Anger without cause; speech without motive; inquiry without an object; putting trust in a stranger; and wanting capability of discriminating 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 fruit was converted while growing in a garden and had not been detached from the soil previous to the taking, It was held by the OQurt that while growing 1 he onions were a part of the realty and not an opjppl of larceny, while as soon as detached they were in the possession of the respondents, never having been in the possession of the complainant after becoming personal properly. : Hence the respondents were simply guilty oftrespass on real property.- * .....An exchange says that a Williamsburg woman has but one jaw, but forgets to add that the dear creature’s husband has satisfied himself by personal observation that with that jaw she has solved the pfobjeiq of perpetual motion.A Milford, N. H., boy was charged with stealing a gold pen, pleaded guilty, and was sent to the Reform School. A young girl has since been detected stealing from the'same store, and the identical pen which the boy wassaid to have stolerj was found in her possession. The boy is to be pardoned.An ambitious lady writes from Iowa, in an almost illegible hand, to inqujrc how much it will cost her for the Chicago Tribune editorially to indorse the following! “Miss Augusta Moore, the lee-turess is quite young; possesses fine mental culture; Few ladies4now on the stage equal her and, none surpass her, she is the Jewel qf the stagedA gentleman, a few days ago, went to the post-office and said he wanted to send a dozen fried oysters in a*box to his wife in Macon, Ga. The box was well inclosed, aqd after conference with a higher official, was taken by the clerk. Stamps to ‘he amount of thirty cents were placed on the box, and a telegram the other day announced that the lady had received the oysters and enjoyed them. These, it is said, are the first oysters ever sent by mail.A Detroit gentleman walking behind two school children the other day beard the boy inquire, “Will you be at the party tonight?” “I shall be there,” answered the miss, “but I may as well toll you now that your love is hopeless. Mamma is deter mined, father is set, and it isn’t right for me to encourage your attention. 1 can be a sister to you, but nothing more. Therefore you needn’t buy me qny valentine or give me any more gum.”The New York correspondent of the St. Louis Republican says that many years ago that Nelse Seymore, the negro minstrel whorecently died, met Miss Effie Germon, the actress. She had been married to Garlo Patti, theviolinist, but he had gone to the war and been reported killed, Seymour and she fell in love and were married, living happily together until Patti returned alive. They then parted amicably, and later Seymour married again.Ten years ago Susan Johnson of Montana, a pretty young school teacher, stood up andyelled, “John Foster, you come here!” and John went snuffling up to Susan, thinking to himself that if that girl hit him there would be war. She did hit him, land had John rolling under the table two minutes afterward. But what’s the difference. That fellow married that girl a few d*ys ago, and he belongs to the Legislature.Garibaldi is advocating a plan for changing the course of the Tiber, that Rome may be secured from its annual inundation.Cauni Catecazy, who was Russian embassador at Washington for several years, is engaged in business in Mexico, and is getting rich loo.Mrs Walworth is working in right good earnest aL Washington for signatures that will influence Governor Tilden to pardon her poor Frank.In Liverpool the manager of a theater has begun n suit to compel an old gentleman in the audience to stop throwing bouquets to the actresses.George Francis Train’s Cred-it-Foncier lots, 112 in number, neaj the Union Pacific railroad depot, in Omaha, were sold at sheriff’s salt Saturday.Timothy Tobias Copenhagen, who served under the First Napoleon during all his campaigns, died recently in the Bourbon county (Ky.) poor house.On the plains ofTexus is found a little flower called the “compass flower,’ which in all changes of wind and weather points its leaves invariably to the north.pjRED YOOKEY,Retail Dealer inFINE LIQUORf, CIGARS,Tobaccos, Notions, *Etc., Era,At hla old Stand,Bowling Green, Ind.Will keep, nothing bat the pureifc )!quota, mid the best brands of tobaccos and—-cigars* Willourleuvur to amo myuu fairly tod honestly. ; ,^58-2unato*'inf
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Bowling Green Clay County Weekly Herald
Bowling Green, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 18, 1875
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