AMERICAN NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1886, 4 November 1874, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

Pittsburgh has an alligator from the Bed fiiver nine feet six inches long, and to make the animal profitable it is proposed to put him in the park in order that the children may be kept off the grass... Twenty-five husbands are now in the New Haven Alms-house for failing to aup- . port their wives. They are obliged to work for their own board, and any surplus wages go for the support of their families. If Ben Butler hopes, as he says, to live' to see bis character thoroughly vindicated, • he may as well lease a house for nine hundred and ninety-nine years, renewable forever. \ A Maine gentleman, now. sojourning in Odessa, has exhumed a Roman-Emperor and his legions, including several rusted stirrups, a splendidly caparisoned mule, and a case of razors. The rivers of Florida are lined with rows of alligators, while tiers of crocodiles are more often spoken of than seen on the Nile. Thepebple of Barton, Yt., are happy ro the possession of a toad which stands under a leaky' beer-barrel and catches the drops as they fall, thus getting amusingly drunk. Disgusted with the sorry performances of a number of young men who were running foot-races, an Evansville damsel pulled on" her shoes and beat the wholes kit of them. . # .- The moßt successful crusader in the West is ono Tom Pounce. His plan of operations is to travel from one buhll town to another and drink.up every drop of whisky to be found. It is stated' there are now ninety-eight Protestant churches in Mexico; and that .£ five years ago there was less than six. Thirty prisoners in the Keatuoky Penitentiary recently broke out-measles. It takes sixty fortune-tellers to. keep the fools in Chicago c.mfortably swindled. t " Does the woman who wears the " breeches pant for fame 1" asks.the Boston Transcript. A Massachussetts farmer's remedy for hard times consists in ten hours' labor well worked in.

Western birds are getting into the habit of late rising, as the worms are to be had in abundance at all hours.

Florida alligators are anti-Baptists. They wont let converts be immersed; bo they have to he sprinkled. A lady resident near Davenport, la., has a beautiful green-lizard in her stomach, and is still discontented. St. Louis people have already begun to make the big bridge useful as an easy and inexpensive means of suicide.^ Barnum's latest project is a lettercarriers' walking match. It will be suio to elicit a general delivery of opinions. St. Louis musical circles are convulsed over the question, should or should not "Down iu a Coal Mine," be sung in a minor key? .