TRANSATLANTIC CLIPPINGS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 526, 17 May 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

TRANSATLANTIC CLIPPINGS.

The fair damsels of Saratoga have formed an “ Anti Kissing Society, ’ It does not seem however to answer particularly well, for out of the twenty three original members, no less than fifteen were fined for breach of rules during the first week. Transatlantic young ladies, however, are not always such man haters, and a maiden of Tennessee recently showed herself an adept at elopements by quietly locking up her papa and mama in their room and hiding the horses 1 bits and bridles before her departure. The Fredricksburg girls are addicted to the weed, “ Chloe Flatford and Abby West have recently fallen victims to smoking at the early ages of 118 and 99. Debt is the thorn in a Rochester young lady’s side, and she has just sued a photographer of that city for 8,000 dollars damages, because he displayed one of her pictures in front of his shop, with this placard.— “ One half dozen photographs ordered by this very stylish young lady, and payment respectfully asked and insultingly refused,” The St. Louis young ladies have taken to drink, and are such topers that the New York Htrxld relates how a number of young women at a St. Louis theatre lately insisted on going out to drink every lime their escorts did, and invariably took brandy, although the latter drank lager beer. Notwithstanding their more potent potations they remained perfectly sober, and were obliged to take their masculine companions home in a very inebriated condition. The palm for female prodigees, however, must lie awarded to La Porte, where, according to an Indian journal, “ the authorities have placed red headed juris at the street corners of nights for illuminating purposes/’ adding, that “the number of male nocturnal pedestrians that find it necessary to hug lamp posts to preserve their equilibrium, ‘a truly astonishing.” The “ latest discovery” has been made by a certain Mrs. Pincia, of Monmouth, who, feeling a queer sensation on the crown of her head, discovered die point of a needle protruding, and with a pair of pincers succeeded iu drawing forth a needle an inch and a half long. She swallowed the needle about five years ago. An original idea wasrecently started in Hamilton, Ohio, where a tee of twenty five cents was cdlected from all persons who entered a church to witness a marriage. The money was given to the youn ; people to start them in life. The mysterious announcement, so common now at the bottom of marriage notices, “no cards,” is now explained. It means that the wedded pair don’t play poker, In a recent lawsuit in Central City, Coloiado, between two Chinamen— Ah How and Tin Son Tankee—the parties insisted upon being sworn according to the Chinese custom, i.e., by bringing a chicken into court and cutting off its head. The judge assented, but would not comply with their request to furnish the chicken, and their suit fell tl rough. It is related of General Sherman that ho used to make a slender livelihood in Calhoun county, Missouri, as a barrister. Once he had prepared a most elaborate brief, when” long, lean, Dnk genius,” leaving his ox team, came before the court as his competitor. The General summed up grandly, quoting freely from an immense pile of books placed carefully before him, and citing the English common law to prove his point. The “bull-whacker” followed him, ridiculed his precedents, and scouted at his hooks. He said it was aninsult to the court to read from the “ common law of England,” and declared that “if he were compelled to take any of that ari-tocratic British law, he wanted the “ very best Her Majesty had, and none of her common law.” That was enough ; the Justice's face was set, and the General lost his case. We are apt to grumble at the length of a Chancery suit, yet what should we say to a deed of thirty feet long, which was recently prepared by a law firm in Illinois. It transferred 2,000 pieces of land iu North Western lowa, all owned by one man Betsy; ‘‘Shall you be agoin’ out this a’ternoon, mem 1” Mistress! “ f think not, Betsy.” “ Cos ycr can if yer like, I dont want to go out,”