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Show A Georgia hen is nursing a litter of kittens. Silk culture is attracting much interest inter-est in Florida. Minnie Ilauck has been engaped for life at the royal opera house in Berlin. A Savannah suicido preserved his clothes intaot by stripping before firing ihe fatal shot Mr. Tyler was upset on the Mississippi Missis-sippi and nearly drowned. Tip a canoe and Tyler too. A bashful youth named Roberts bas married a lady of forty in Georgia. Roberts is ninety-two. A negro, throwing about his aims and shouting "small-pox," had a Richmond street all to himself. "Rachel's" father. M. Jacques Felix, died lately in Paris, ascd seventy-six. lie leaves 20U,0UU. A female house-painter, of Toledo, recently had a small boy arrested for looking at her as sho ascended a ladder. lad-der. A powerful disinfectant, especially adapted to tho destruction of insects, is prepared by passing sulphurous acid into alcohol. The eye of a good mother is like the sun ; it shines on a world that would be dark without, and its brightness is as that of love. The wickedest womau in Boston is named Jemima Jakes. She claims to have yanked fifty husbands from the domestic hearth. "Bill," said one apprentice to another, an-other, "I don't like a boss that is always al-ways 'round his shop interfering with his own business." "Were you ever baptized?" inquired an earnest minister of a green candidate. candi-date. "No no-o sir ! never only once't, and then I fell in !" From the Boston Commercial Bulletin Bul-letin s answers to correspondents : 1 "Son-in law. Arsenic is the most cer-1 cer-1 tain. Put a little in her tea." Cano sugar when exposed to light in sealed tubes is converted into grape sugar or glucose. The solution should be as concentrated as possible. It is estimated that there are 50,-000 50,-000 children growing up in New York city, between the ages of eight and sixteen, io idleness and vagabondage. The last question that has troubled philosophers is this: "Which causes a girl tho roost pleasure, to hear herself her-self praised or another girl run down ?" A squaw living in Sediac, Canada, known as "Old Susie," ono hundred and ten years old, fell down a cellar, in the above named town, the other day, and broke her neck. Until the year 1770 this law was in foroe in England: "Whoever shall entice into matrimony any male sub-jeot sub-jeot of her majesty by means of rouge, white paint, Spanish cotton, steel cor sets, crinoline, or high-heeled shoes, shall be prosecuted for witchcraft and the marriage declared null and void. Miss Pike, of Ffth Avenue, New York, has just completed a doll for the homoeopathic charity fair, which is unquestionably the most elaborate ono ever made. Its cost is estimated at one thousand dollars, and its per-fectness per-fectness in every detail will be admitted admit-ted when we announce that it possesses, among other extras, diamond earrings, cashmere shawl, and tiny rubber overshoes. |