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• Accidentally Shot Colonel Gray, of Petaluma, came near losing his life a few days ago, in a singular manner.
  A gentleman with whom he was hunting attempted to bring down a dove, but instead of doing so put the load of shot through the Colonel's hat....
• Climate and Surgery R C Gilchrist, who was shot by J Sharp twelve days ago
  and who received a derringer ball in the right breast, and who it was supposed at the time could not live many hours, was on the street yesterday and the day before - walking several blocks at a time....
• He hath a daily beauty in his life. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act v, Sc. 1
• A New Way of Taking Pills A physician one night in Wisconsin being disturbed by a burgla
  and having no ball or shot for his pistol, noiselessly loaded the weapon with small, hard pills, and gave the intruder a "prescription" which he thinks will go far towards curing the rascal of a very bad ailment....
• Too Late A large number of turkies [sic] went to San Francisco yesterday by the two o'clock boats.
  If their object in going down was to participate in the Thanksgiving festivities of that city, they would arrive "the day after the affair," and of course be sadly disappointed thereby....
• A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 4...
• A Hen Brooding Kittens A friend informs us that he saw at the Novato ranch, Marin county, a few days since, a hen actually brooding and otherwise caring for three kittens!
  The gentleman upon whose premises this strange event is transpiring says the hen adopted the kittens when they were but a few days old, and that she has devoted them her undivided care for several weeks past....
• A young girl once committed suicide because her mother refused her a new bonnet.
  Coroner's verdict: "Death from excessive spunk." -- Sacramento Daily Union, September 13, 1860...
• But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth.
  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...