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Show . LXKLINCiS. Thev dn't bury colored people iu Georgia. They 'form de fun'ral obs'-quiee, obs'-quiee, sah. If you want to feel warm all through yive some poor family the means to ke-p warm. We could gtt along with a little less Von Arnim in cur cable despatches, and yet happy. A prodigal collier at Sheffield, England, Eng-land, feeds his sporting dog on nice mimon and fresh eggs, with port . wine. During lust year Beecher's church handled-71,000 of funds, of which oS,000 were received from pew rents. Bamum has unpaged the English woman who actually achieved the feat of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. A Boston lady and gentleman have played 10,000 games of cribbage together, to-gether, the lady being two games ahead. Two of Robert Bruce's bones were sold in Edinburgh for o, and one of the vertebra; of William the Lion for 5 10s. Mercy Consolation Smith, is Fort Wayne'B handsomest girl. Mercy will no doubt be a Consolation to some fellow. Kalakaua'e subjects are tased live cents on every $100, $1 on ovory horse, and $5 for every carriage-owned carriage-owned and run. "I am very happy," said a French mother. "I have a son-in-law whom everybody discusses, and a daughter whom no one talks about." The Western Union has opened at Alma, Col., the highest regular telegraph tele-graph station in the world, 10,500 feet, or nearly two miloa above Bea level. A Covington man died and they put him on ico; but he awoke in the night and yelled out, "Why didn't you put some more wood in that stove?" Ladies should remember to keep their mouths shut when going out of a warm room into the cool air. In fact it wouldn't hurt anything to keep them shut most of the time. Of course a weman doesn't want her plants to freeze, but still one can't blame a man for raising a row when he hops out of bed in the morning and finds a geranium plant in each trousers' log. Among the articles of vertu in possession pos-session of that gold-edged phenomenon, phenome-non, Sharon, and not hitherto enumerated, enu-merated, are a diamond-mounted fine-tooth hair comb and an inlaid topaz bootjack. The fleet horse which bore Collins Graves to warn the dwellers of Mill river valley of the coming disater, last May, has seriously injured himself by prosaically running away and leaping into the river. Dion Boucicault has reduced his eating to a science. He never eats an ounce more or less, is tempted by no "big" dinners or late suppers, and is said by some who have to work under his direction, to be a man ol iron nerves and braiss muscles. A gentleman Baid to his gardener, "George, the time will come when a man will be able to carry the manure of an acre of land in one of his waistcoat waist-coat pockets." To which the gardener gard-ener replied, "I believe it, sir; but he will be able to carry all the crop in the other pocket." |