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Show 1XKLIXGS. Livingston is coining home. Nearly 20,000 natives of Louisiana rediiio in tiio city ol' P;vrid. Loiii-ivillc owes its Dolice force $ 3,-000, 3,-000, iintl the men nru claniuroiiB- for slanipd. A Floriila wonion iv:ii liittonon the e:ir hy a tarantula and died withiu 10 in inn tea. A young lady on Cape Cod picks a barrel of cnuiberriui every day in their season. Tnko care of your health and your wile; tiiey aru the two better halves that inaku a man of yon. It is said that the people who went down in the Yilic du iLicrc wltc Yvoith twenty millions of dollars. Grinni'l, la., lias a flourishing cs-t-ibli-iluiH'i.t lor the manufacture of French kid luvcs troin domestic goat skins. .Rf! O.i k, Iowa, is overrun with rats, and the authorities oiler two cents lor the tail of every vermin caught. When a Chirao man "mukes the round" of nil the bar-rooms of that eitv lie lias ;m opportunity to take i,-100 i,-100 drinks. Fifteen pounds of dried apples is tho minimum charge of an Iowa editor lor a fir.-L-e lass marriage notice. One with po.rtry coats more. Brick Pomeroy continues to reside in Europe. liis presence hue, as yet, had no other effect than to aggravate ag-gravate the quarrel between Bismarck and the Pupe. The irls in Boston's High School are to in: tnught pliotography, perhaps per-haps to impress upon their minds the iii.iiniiKitieal rule tliat two negatives duu't alvays make an affirmative. A lecturer recently telegraphed to A temperance organization thaf he would leeture on " A Taste for Naples Nap-les and Rome." The telegraph got it " A Tacte for Apples and liutn." Owing to the scarcity of newsboys in Pittsburg, every street ear is fur-m-hed with a copy of the Bible, the companies knowing that its contents will he news to most of the passen- Chicago is now exercised over the abuse known as "straw bail" in the treatment of criminals. There have been otto indictments this year of men who have not been brought to trial. "Hard times" sociables are fashionable fash-ionable in Western Pennsylvania. The cuests are compelled to appear in patched clothing, and the refreshments refresh-ments consist ot mush and milk and baked potatoes. Anything in reason wc are willing to accept hum Boston, but when they talk of fifty odd oilers of marriage within one year to one young woman with two wooden legs we really couldn't. World. An Iowa woman has not spoken for nine years, in accoulanco with a re-ligiuus re-ligiuus vow she h;is taken. tihe is constantly receiving letters from hits-bauds hits-bauds in the e;istern states, inquiring what the vow is ami how it is taken. A Berlin bankrupt asked his creditor cred-itor recently lor a weekly allowance of 60 while his atfairs were being adjusted ad-justed in the courts. They allowed him $100 per week, and his case will probably require several years iu which Lu be settled. " Thero is one good thing about babies," says a late traveler; "they never change. We have girls of the period, men of tho world, but the baby is the same self-possessed, fearless, fear-less, laughing, voracious little heathen hea-then in all ages aud in all countries." A littln Bte.iliiic if a 'Litis rom purt, lint airiiluii; Im-aieiy is ta uoblo art ; Tm m,-,u t rut. it uiTirou-it of u boa, Due -Wins tli.)ii-.tii.ii iinik-, hi p-ntl-men. |