Fruit-growers in many sections of New Hampshire are offering a reward of half a dollar for every partridge killed in or near their orchprds. It is thought these birds destroy apple-buds. Colonel Paine and M. Stapleton, two influential citizens of Monticello, Kansas, a few days ago, quarrelled about a trivial matter, and agreed to settle the difficulty in a darkroom. Paine had a knife, and Stapleton a revolver. The citizens hearing a pistol shot, burst open the door, and found Stapleton's throat cut and Paine shot through the lungs. Neither had much hope of recovery. The King of Prussia recently visited a needle manufactory in his kingdom, and was shown a number of superfine needles, thousands of which, together did not weigh half an ounce, and marvelled how such minute articles could pc pierced with an eye. The eye-borer asked fora hair from the King's head. He placed it tinder the boring-machine, made a hole in it, furnished it with a thread;, ff and then handed the needle to the King.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 699, 12 July 1870, Page 4
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