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Show IMvLINGS. A strike is expected among. the New York tailors. Brooklyn enjoyed a fine concert the other evening at which all the performers per-formers were blind. One thousand married couples were divorced iu Ohio last year. Liberty Corner, N. J. contains only one hundred inhabitants, and there have been eight suicides committed within the year in place. The governor of Mississippi wants the marriage license fee put as low as possible in that state, so as to encourage encour-age matrimony. A woman in New York killed her babe, two weeks old, last week, by giving it laudanum, by mistake, for paregoric. An Iowa man took it into his head to personate a j:host the other night to a niu-eular farmer who didn't scare very well, aud was carried home in a blanket. Congress has over two thousand bills on its calendars, besides a great many yet to be reported from committees. commit-tees. A va-t amount of business will go over to the next session. A private in the New York Seventh, while that regiment was marching down Wall street one day last week, fell out of the ranks and died almost instantly. The Butler county (Ohio) Democrat speaks of its democratic friends who talk of Chase for president, as a set of "mean, contemptible, cowardly, mercenary, sneaking, niggermonger-ing, niggermonger-ing, wretches." A petrified snake is now on exhibition exhibi-tion at Wytheville, Virginia. It is about half an inch thick, coded up, has perfect scales on its body, might have been two feet in length, and is of hard white rock. A Mrs. Elder stabbed a lawyer named Stevenson in Indianapolis, May -1, while at dinner at his hotel. The cause was an offensive examination of Miss Elder iu a case in which she was a witness. William Tillinghast, of Sunbold, Long Lloud, rowed to the middle of a pond the other day, fastened the anchor anch-or of the boat around his neck, and jumped overboard. It was the last of William. "Sonny does your father take a paper?" pa-per?" "Yes sir, two of them one belongs be-longs to Mr Smith and the other to Mr. Thompson. I hooks them off the stoop." An Illinois reporter, in describing a gale of wind says: "A white dog, while attempting to weather the gale, was caught with his mouth open and turned completely inside out." An advertisement was sent to the Cleveland Herald office on Sunday night, in which occurred the words, "The Christian's Dream No Cross, No Crown." The printer made it read, "The Christian's Dream No Cows, No CreamV At a place of amusement in Indianapolis, India-napolis, the other night, a little girl actress sung "Little Barefoot" in costume. Such was the efiect on the audience that at the repetition oi "Please, sir; give me a penny, sir," it fairly rained nickles on the stage; at least two dollars' worth were thrown. |