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Show INKLINGS. ifS?B A member of the Yir.sinia Legislature Legisla-ture is demanding legislation to protect the people against paper and cliip-bot-tom shoes. A Tennessee paper anxiously inquires, "Whither are wc drifting?" To which a rival sheet replies, "It would be profane pro-fane in us to say." Out of two car-loads of hogs shipped from Lafayette, Ind., to Indianapolis, only ten arrived alive, all the rest being frozen to'death. A Long Bland maiden, forty years of age, ibe village schoolmistress, married mar-ried a couple who thought it too far to go to the minister's. They have a piano in the Massachusetts Massachu-setts State prison chapel, and at a recent re-cent entertainment given to the prisoners pris-oners it was "dedicated" to the prison use. The jail at Keene, N. II., being ten-antless. ten-antless. the local paper suggests that "as the rogues seem to be ail outside, it might be used as a safe retreat by a few honest people of retiring disposition." disposi-tion." A Wisconsin school-boy having very irnml-n:i turprlKr liplnprl finntlipr in n difficult lesson, was angrily questioned by the teacher, "Why did you work his lesson?" "To lessen his work," replied re-plied the youngster. 1 he annual fair at Leipsic, held on the 1st of every January, was a failure, this year, on account of the disturbing elements of the war. No.Greeks, Armenians, Ar-menians, or Persians were present, though they are usually their in numbers. num-bers. A Savannah paper reports that a man who was eating oysters at a saloon in that city, eonteniptously threw a large pearl, worth $10U, aside, remarking remark-ing that the Savannah people didn't know how to open oysters, for they left large pieces of shell. A few days since Martha Krieng-hosper, Krieng-hosper, aged seventeen yeirs, employed em-ployed in a paper mill at Hamilton, Ohio, fell through a trap door in the third floor in the hopper ued iu grinding grind-ing rags, and before the ruill could be stopped was literally torn into pieces. It is rather inconvenient for people to know too much. A savant, learned in comparative anatomy, while partaking, partak-ing, not longao, of a savory di.-h, supposed sup-posed to consist of "chicken fixins," found in his plate a bone, which he recognized as the thigh bone of a cat. A Michieau ituman, who suddenly loat her voice four years airo, lbu;id it again on the 2nd ult. While engaged in her household duties it occurred to her that she could speak, and, making the attempt, she found, to her great joy, that her voicj was fully restored. The tkating rink at Carson has such attractions lor the Nevada Loeis'ators that it is iuiMbio to get I lie ways and uiuatis committee together for the tran-ac:ion of hu-in-s, owing to the lamination of the rink, and a memtxT ulh-red a resolution abolishing it, which was ruled out of order. There i-i at pre-cnt in Montreal a widow of -2 w ho is the mother of niuu chiMp-n. She wa- m irri- d at sixt,'--ri, and lel'ore ln-r .-:vi-ntu-nth Lirthd iv pn-i iit.-.l lu-r lord wiili twins: the fob lowing y-:ir she proiucl at one Lirth tim e boy-; tin-ip xt ear she bad twins, and r. prate 1 the iirrfor'uaii'-; the follow fol-low in.- y, :ir iiKiknu nine i liildren. the uMc-t 1-iiii-1 .ir. ly ,,ur. The chiidn n are all living anl doii. well. ' |