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Show J INKLINGS. i A wliite black-snake has been cap- j tured in I'ike County, Ohio, i A n:an in Missouri cleaned off a place on the groun 1, wrote on it "I am mad" and then shot himself through the heart. It will cost a female ju.-:t $30 to withold her age from the census taker. A Chicago paper says that at a recent re-cent theatrical performance there the whole audit nee, excepting two men, went out between the acts to take a drink. It is gravely stated in the New York p;fjers that the Fenians in Brooklyn are getting up a second raid, a id that the '"lii.-h Sisterhood'' collected col-lected a thousand more dollars in one day List week. A trappi.-t monk is said to have invented in-vented a new putatoe-pceling machine, by which a man can easily pee! six hundred pounds of potatoes per hour. Twenty-two applications for divorce weie tiled in one court in Chicago in one day last week. The weather must have been unpleasant. An immense antediluvian forest j has been discovered near ir'acific City, j Iowa, about fourteen inches below the Mirfacu. The trees are all lying in one direction, their top toward the : west. They are black as jut, and capable of receiving a high polish. There seems an inexhaustible supply, as experiments for miles around reveal re-veal them to the search. A plain "charge" by an outspoken ju lgd. "Gentlemen of the jury, in this case the counsel on both sides are unintelligible; the witnesses on , both sides incredible ; and the plaintiff and defendant are both such bad char auters, that to me it is indifferent which way you give your verdict." A New York thief who had stolen a quantity of laees on being convicted, said to tlu judge "I hope Christ may parali.e me before I leave the court room if I took those things. . The judiro gave him three years and six months in the state pii.son three years for theft, and the rest for blasphemy. blas-phemy. A convent is to be built in La Crosse, Wisconsin, by the St. Francis order. The main building is to be loU by lOo feet, with a 40 foot wing on either side. It will have a stone basement, and three stories and a half high of brick. It will be a superb su-perb structure, having seventeen gables and a large spire, and will cost 75,000. A New York dwelling house in the process of beinar pulled down disgorged its skeleton. This particular one was found completely walled up in one of the sides of the house. It is a perfect frame of a man and points to murder. An old negro woman had lived in the house twenty-five 'ears. and says she often heard noises which she supposed produced by rats on the rampage. A Louisville man was killed, leaving his wife in destitute circumstances, when a religious neighbor circulated a supseriptiou paper, and raised $1,60 ', proposed to the widow, was accepted, manied her, and put the money in his trowscrs. He is said to be the best business man belonging to his church, ami was made a deacon without delay. They call him '"Old Benevolence." |