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# GENERAL BREVITIES.
LONDON gossips have an absurd story that the Queen is going to marry Disraeli.
CHARLES CROCKER, one of the millionaires of California, was a newsboy in Troy in 1835.
ASA PACKER is the richest of the 99 millionaires of Philadelphia, being worth $12,000,000.
THE naturalized voters in three counties of New York State-Erie, Kings and New York-exceed those who are native born.
A SILVER three-cent piece which lodged in the wind-pipe of a five-year-old urchin in Cincinnati has been restored to the currency of the country.
HERE is a new feature in fairs. A Pacific Coast paper describes an Episcopal social in Carson, where "there were billiard tables in charge of the ladies, at four bits a game."
THE Overseer of the Poor saw several people go into the Dime Savings Bank at Elizabeth, N. J., during the late run, and draw money, who, under complaint of dire poverty, had been regularly receiving supplies from the city. They were cut off from future orders.
THE street-car drivers of Montreal are compelled to advertise their dishonesty by carrying cash-boxes slung around their necks. The passenger places the money on the lid of the box, the conductor presses a spring, and the money falls in. If the conductor touches the money he is discharged.
THE wife of a former commission merchant of New York and the wife of a man who had been ruined by the failure of a New York insurance company were applicants for bread-tickets in Newark the other day. One of these women had been what is called "a leader in society."
THE West Union (Iowa) Gazette tells of a miser in that vicinity, worth thousands of dollars, who never allows his wife candles or lamp of an evening, compelling her to kindle shavings to see if her bread is baked at night, and doling out the wood to her by the stick. The wife tried to leave him recently, but the old man got control of their child, and thus also kept the mother.
A BEDFORD (Iowa) woman has suddenly lost and recovered her voice several times within the past two years, her longest period of speechlessness being five months. She never suffers pain or has the slightest premonitory symptom, and her peculiarity is attributed to occasional paralysis of the vocal cords.
THERE has just been made at Stockton, Cal., the largest plow ever manufactured. It is designed to work in the tules, and cuts a furrow 35 inches wide. The mold-board is eight feet long from the point to the end. The plow will be attached to a sulky, and will require twelve stout animals to pull it.
MRS. ABIGAIL GRIFFITH, of Boston, aged 91, and a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, supplies a certain number of people in her neighborhood with their newspapers, going out in the morning at 4 and working until 6. Rain or shine, hot or cold, she is always on time with those papers.
DR. CORNELIUS FOX writes in the Sanitary Record: "There can be no question in the mind of any one who has taken an interest in sanitary subjects that scarlet fever poison is disseminated by letters. Proofs of this accident have been repeatedly afforded. The out-break of this disease in a village Post-office has presented itself to my notice on two occasions, and in both cases the disease has spread."
A VIRGINIA farmer has reported rather an odd little incident that he has seen on his farm. He planted some weeks ago timothy seed with his wheat. The timothy failed to come up, although the wheat grew splendid. A careful examination disclosed the fact that the ants had gathered up all the grass seed, and made piles of it at the entrance of their underground home. All over the field this had been done, and a great quantity of the seed had been carried across the road and piled up in the field there.
A 5-YEAR-OLD child left its seat in the Baptist Church at Grand Rapids, Mich., walked up to the pulpit and up the steps, and stood beside Dr. Graves, the pastor, who turned toward the lad, saying, "What do you want, my little man?" The child innocently replied, "A glass of water." The pastor poured out a glass of water, the child drank it, and left the platform. The incident created considerable merriment among the audience, which the child in returning to his seat noticed, and, thinking the people were amused at some mistake of his, he made a bow to the pastor, and said, "Thank you, sir," and went to his seat, satisfied that he had not committed an impropriety.
A NOTABLE exhibition of courage, coolness and skill was furnished by the officers of the German steamship Hermann on her last voyage to New York. A fire being discovered in the cargo near the boiler-room, the speed of the vessel was slackened, the Captain, summoned from a sick-bed, took command, a strong force was quietly set to work, and in the short space of 20 minutes, though laboring in blinding smoke and with the possibility of the fire bursting through the deck at any moment, the men had overcome the danger. So efficiently and coolly was the all-important task performed that passengers within 20 feet of the scene of peril knew nothing of what was going on.
COLOFFI FRES
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