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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1116, 24 February 1872, Page 4

AMERICAN NOTES. ♦ r— A self-winding clockisa New York invention. New York children get lost at the rate of fifty a year. Rat skins constitute the most general currency in Northern Minnesota. % Two collisions a day between railway trains and street can is the average at Louisville. Potter Palmer, the Chicago millionaire, is living in a shanty on the edge of the prairie. ; • An Atlanta eleven-year-old shot and killed a playfellow in a quarrel over a mud-pie. A notice over the sleeping-car office in Atlanta reads: — "Births can be secured here." William Shakespeare lives in Alabama, and is celebrated as a successful mellow drammer. There are but seven toll-gated left in all Canada, the others being abolished by. the people. There are sixty living men within three miles of Skowhegan, Maine, who were born in the year 1797. An Indiana editor says : — " vVe leave to-morrow for the county hog show, and hope to take the prize." A musical whisky bottle has been inVented in Georgia. Happy pairs now announce their engagement by leaving their cards together at the houses of their friends. "Mnddle" is a favorite dish at Plymouth Rock. It consists of "the jowls aud sounds of cod-fish stewed up with pork and seasonings." < Frightened Mormons, instead of sealing any number of new wive 3, are now carefnlly concealing the number of wives they have. s , A Western journal offers this inducement: — "All subscribers paying in advance will be entitled to a first-class 1 obituary notice in case of death." An enterprising dentist in a neighboring city advertises :—" Get your Bweetheaxt a new set of teeth as a Christmas present." A -coroner's jury, at La Crosse, Wis., brought in a verdict of "probable murder" j when a corpse was found with seven stabs in the back. .JEJenry. Ward Beecher commenced preaching, and got married, on a salary of j 400dol a 'year. Now he has the same wife,but a new salaryof 20,000dbl a year. A, ballad-singer in a New Orleans music saloon knocked down the piano accompanist with a chair, but explained to the audience that "the hound was out of time." Exclusive of. Congressmen, fee district of Columbia has four times as many idiots and fanatics as any other section of the country of the same population. The rand at the outlets of the Mississippi River advance? seaward 338 feet every year, and the work of keeping the channels open constantly increases the difficulty. Among the books ordered by Senator Cameron, as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, is a copy of Byron's . poems/in order that he might study the San Juan question. A Connecticut paper says that a lawyer hung out hia shingle in the town of Bethel,- in that State, but left after a year, he having had only one case, that of inflammatory rheumatism. A Kansas paper informs the public that "Mr*— — , of Missouri, got to owning horses that didn't belong to him, and tho next, thing he knew, he couldn't get his feet down to the ground." A rural editor has lost all faith in the luck of horse shoes. He nailed one over his door recently, and that morning there came by mail three duns and seven "stops,' and a man called with a revolver to ask ," who wrote that article ?" Poor Job Thompson, of Milwaukee, incurred the displeasure of his wife, and, like ,Rip Van Winkle, was driven out of the house at the end of a broomstick. His parting works on the threshold were, " You have banished me from your home,' and hereafter I must lead a life of shame or perish." During a burlesque performance at Peptia, the other night, some person in the 1 gallery threw a doll-baby at the feet of 'Lisa Weber, whereupon she grew furiously indignant, and declared that her husband would horsewhip the perpetrator after the performance. Gypsies have lately been coming to this country in considerable numbers, and it is said that their king in this country has his head-quarters in New Jersey. It is estimated that there are over 5000 in the United States, 18,000 in England, 40,000 in Spain, 97,000 in Austria, and 200,000 in Moldavia and Wallaohia. ;•:• Mrs Louisa Lossing, of Adrian, Mich., had a little niece living with her who didn't eat breakfast enough to Bint, so the annt crammed thick pieces of bread into the child's month, and seasoned them with pinohes of red pepper. Then she whipped the little girl with a cane from an, apple tree because she cried. The gentle aunt has been sentenced tp pay a fine of lOOdol, and in addition will spend the winter at Detroit House of Correction. The Houston County (Minn.) Democrat confirms the statement that a man at Spring Grove is turning into stone. His name is Harmon Silvereon. He is completely petrified in all his limbs and body —the only exception being a portion about the mouth, throat, and eyes.. He has a good appetite, eats, and prays day and night for the Lord, to deliver him from tbw terrible affliction. He is perfectly helpless. The process of petrification commenced some time last spring in his feet and Knees, since which time it has gradually increased. This is the descriptian of a terrible infant which is said to bo in Ferntroes county, Tennessee :— The prodigy is only three years old, and weighs 75 pounds firm flesh, has as much beard as a twenty year older ; his feet are eight inches long though small for one of his build— of course he is fond of the society of girls, but, the boys he detests. His voice ia coarse, and his fits of passion are terrific. He expects to marry next year and go to Congress the year after, with the President in the near perspective.