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Show ALL SORTS A strong batter may burst the pitcher. Some one suggests that it be called a telepham. Country stiles are cut crossway.---[Boston Transcript. Wills are among the last sad writes.---[Boston Transcript. The butcher who trusts loses flesh.-[Philadelphia Chronicle. Miners delight in picking a "pocket."-[Cincinnati Commercial. "A celebrated case'-Mahomet's coffin.-[Cincinnati Commercial A Deadwood man-A cigar-store Indian.-[Cincinnati Commercial. Courtship is a novel; marriage a history.-[Hackensack Republic A figure of speech-naught set down in malice.-[Boston Transcript. A dangerous man-one who takes life cheerfully.-[Vallejo Chronicle. A dead sure thing==man's mortality.-[Boston Journal of Commerce. Owing to the rise in paper, kites are going up.-[New York Statesman. The weigh of the transgressor is light as well as hard.-[Boston Transcript. A Nevada Indian is going through life with the beautiful name of Drifting Goose. A man must be dead when he is given up by the doctors.-[New Orleans Picaynne. The hole-ly land-up in Pennsylvania where the oil wells are.-[Steubenville Herald. A new hat is called "Solace." The Yonkers Statesman says it is evidently no "plug." "My burden is light," remarked the little man carrying a big torch in the procession.-[Steubenville Herald. The world owes us all a living, but she is just as hard to collect from as any other debtor.-[Philadelphia Item. Some on inquires: "Where have all the ladies belts gone?" Gone to waist, long ago.-[New Orleans Picayune. It was Pel? Who said that it was eminently respectable to be arrested for debt, because it shows that yon onc had credit. When a man can't keep his head above water, he may console himself by having a large floating debt.-[Boston Transcript. A St. Louis rich man drew up a will which was so pathetically worded that it moved all his relatives to tears. It left all his property to an orphan asylum.-[Boston Post. |