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Show LNKLLNGS. Kighty-onc cities of (iernuiny now I boast ereuialion oeietiea. , ' ITmrlow Tweed says ir'ioO iu tho ? average prieuol'an Albuny legislator's i vote. A (.ieorgia clergyman 'hum Lhirly-two children. His sermons are nearly all upon tho auhject o( "a belter life than ' this." 1 What a slim pal Urn of a man : Aloxander II. Stephens must be. The Indianapolis Journal says ho is "a mere phantom ol hid former shadow." shad-ow." Herr Buluw has finally decided not to eomo to America, whereupon, tho New York World repents its pun, "Man wants but little Kerr Billow." Bil-low." A western editor apologizes for the deficiency of the first coition of his paper by, saying ho was detained at home by a second edition of his fam- i'y. Somo genius has aseei tained that shad furnish more inspiration than any other ot tho finny tnbo. It is a singular delusion ol the mind which causes it to mistake fish hones for inspiration. in-spiration. A fashionable New York dentist charges 10 for him ply examining a person's teeth, and sj?-5 an hour lor operating upon them, and h:iH brought , in a bill of 00 for tilling a single tooth. A North Carolina paijer says that a homo in the pine woods is a cure for consumption. We suppose it ia a homeopathic cute. When the eon-sumptivea eon-sumptivea go among the pinc-knots thy pino away. The artist who was hired "to teach etiquette" in the St. I'anl free schools, has been ofU-red a Urge increase- of salary by a wealthy humanitarian, to accept a similar (situation in the. Brooklyn Hoard ot iylucalion. The worst feature about this cremation crema-tion business is that eomo Winter morning, in a fit of philanthropy, your widow's second husband may empty your ashes on the icy pavement pave-ment for the benefit of the pedestrians. pedes-trians. After all. it is well Whittier did not secure Sumner's sjat in Congress. Jt is painful to imagine a western orator shying an inkstand at tho author of "Barbara Fritchie," for his opinion on tho St. Croix land grant question. ques-tion. Milwaukee &ntin I. It is relaUd that the pcrouii m charge of i he late Senator Sumner's residence in Washington recently had all the buttons cutufl his coat by 1 a party of lathes and gentlemen, who found the coat lying on a bed, and supposed it to have been Mr. Sum-I Sum-I ncr's, - Yesterday wm Siiakv.-pcre's birthday birth-day anniversary. Had he livi-d, he , would now be thn e hundred and t-n years old. But death came in .hc very on 1st of a birth av celebration, on the '!rd day ul April, l'ihj, thus cutting oil" two hundred and filty-eight filty-eight yuars of what wor.ld otherwise have been a lung and useful life. Syraeuso t'-juri-r. 1 Cvitrier- luttrituf: "St. 1,-jiiifl gave John McCullough, tlio tr.igedian, a gold medal, recently." And, pray, , what use has John M el 'ul lough lor a i cold medal ' Why didn't nhe give , hirn a new hat, or pair of hoot.-, or a ; velocipede, or a tlni'-n Willie of cas. tor oil, or something rife that would have been ol r. al u him '! |