AMERICAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 2854, 12 April 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN NOTES.

(From Recent Exchanges.) A small bov, being called up as a witness in a New York court, and asked by Mr . S. Spencer what they do to persons who swear to a lie, replied, “ They make policemen out of ’em. Miss Moore has succeeded her father, Cant. T S. Moore, as lighthouse-keeper at Black, Connecticut. Having assisted him for the last fifteen years, she is presumed to know how the old thing works. The father of Dorabella recently found that little girl’s chubby little hand full of the blossoms of a favorite rose tree, on which he had bestowed great care. ‘My dear, said he, didn’t I tell you not to pick one of those flowers without leave ? Yes, papa, said Dorabella, but all these had leaves, At a late Plymouth Church pic-nic. Mr Beecher was asked why be did not dance. “ There is but one reason, he replied, I don’t know how. The only dancing that I ever did was when my father furnished the music and used me as a fiddle. I took all the steps then.” A Sunday-school teacher “ out West ” upon inquiring of one of his juvenile pupils what he had learned during the week, was electrified by the answer that he had “learned not to trump his partner s ace.

In Pennsylvania recently a train ran from Harrisburg via Reading to Allentown, a distance of ninety miles, in two horns and toi ty minutes, including stops consuming twentyfive minutes. The running time was about forty miles an hour. Colonel H D. Cook of Normal, 111. , has patented an iron shingle roof. The shingles are about six by thirteen inches, lap eAch other so as to insure a water proof roof, ami are fastened by headless nails. The patent is said to be less expensive thin slate. The editor of a Texas paper says : “The facetious editor of the is engaged in a philosophical experiment to ascertain how large a falsehood it is possible for a g’ven number of words to express.” The result must have been successful, as the first-named editor describes it as a double-barrelled whopper. The musical jubilee for which Boston is now preparing, is to he held in a building 832 feet long, 422 feet wide, and 172 feet high, and the roof is to be supported by arches sprining from the ground on each side and at the euds. The building erected for the musical festival of 1869 was only 500 feet long and 300 feet broad.