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Show l'EUSONAti POINTS. Senator Sherman Eeems to have some sontimont remaining. On St. Tatrick's day he appeared in tho senate with a shamrock on the lapel ot his oont. Alphonse Daudot, the famous French novelist, is fond of smoking, but uses tho cheap clay pipes. He has probably never heard of the Missouri meerschaums. They talk at Fordham.near Now York, of a monument to Edgar A. Poo. Of. courso the country in gonoral will be called upon to contribute. Such iB the New York Btyle. Iu his locture ;Goneral Howard saya that when he parted with General Grant the last time the General asked him to pray for him. This is buing used to mow that General Grant was a religious man. In filling out n death certificate a Pennsylvania doctor inadvertently wrote his name in the blank space reserved tor "cause ot death." Who knows but it was the proper thing for him to have done? Humor has had an illustration n the south. A minister announced to his congregation one Sunday that on tho next Sunday he would preach on "Looking "Look-ing Backward." A large nudionce assembled as-sembled to hear him when he discoursed to the people on Lot's wife. Hero is an opportunity for ministers who are tired of thinking forthomsolvos. A Now Bedford clergyman who bns been in service a long time advertises 700 sermons ser-mons for sale, covering all subjects, and applicable to any locality, lie only wants $1 apiece for the lot it taken in a lump. Sain Jones seems to have boon more offensive down in Texas than usual. Perhaps he thought tho people down there required something ruder than olsowhere. At Tyler he said "dancing girls look like tadpoles and fashionable girls look no more like God Almighty's woman than a Chinaman looks liko a salt mine." He is always an ardent seekor aftor notoriety. |