California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 38, Number 24, 16 January 1873 — CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

CLIPPINGS.

A little girl died In Chester County. Pa., the other day, from an overdose of raw ohestnms.

Alphons Karr has ia bis library tbe skull of a lady tie. once loved and tbat of a servant notorious tor robbing bim. Ttc firmer bad probably jiltsd him, and he gets revenge al bis leisure, by making faces at tbe grinning skeleton.

KipoM wat«r to Ire, anil It dissolve* In v>|ior; wood, and it vanishes in smoke and flame, leaving but gray ashes behind i iron, and it is converted into rust' But Are may play on gold for a thousand years without depriving it ot a degree of its lustre, or an atom of its weight. Beautiful emblems of the saints of Uod, gold cannot perish—their trials, like tbe notion of Ore on thia precious metal, but purifying wbat they cannot destroy — "■(Arse.

There are 15,C00 iquare miles of coal fields In which Pittsburgh is interested, and $16,000,000 of Pitbbnrgb ospltal is invested therein, Probably «S,l!OuofJo more is invested in transportation, and the total of all interests dependant upon these coal fields cannot fall short of the eoormouisum of 1100,000 000

Tbe receipts of live • oe'< at tbe Union Ssocs Yards for tbe month of November add up 375,953 hogs, 55,884 cattle, and 24,343 sbeep. The tot il receipts ot bogs since January 1, add up 1,739,* 50S— Weilfrn Ratal.