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Show IXKLIXG8. There are one hundred and eighty varieties of pills for liver complaint. An "imbecile word-making reptile," is what one western editor calls another. an-other. London cabs and omnibuses run over and kill live persons rer week on an average. A Virginia paper has discovered that sumach 7 makes an agreeable mixture mix-ture with smoking tobacco. A prisoner broke out of Hertford jail in England recently, and swam across a river with his handcuffs on. A contemporary thinks it must be horrible on the battle-field ''to hear the stifled groans of the dying and the shrieks of the dead." After Detroit had named one of her streets "Napoleon," the curious fact was discovered that two thirds of the people living on the street are Oer-mans. Oer-mans. A mosquito taper is a Pittsburgh invention. It creates such a smell when burning that the mosquitoes ask to be excused. It drives human beings be-ings out of doors also, which is its only defect. Death entered a Chicage boarding-house, boarding-house, and the paper that had the funeral notice had also the advertisement advertise-ment of the boarding house keeper : "A furnished room to rent just vacated.'' vaca-ted.'' The splendid spectacle of the aurora borealis gave rise to a most extraordinary extraordi-nary scene at Caltanisetta, in Sicily. On perceiving the unwonted appearance appear-ance of the sky, the inhabitants rushed out of their houses in wild dismay, trembling and shrieking. Some threw up their hands in despair toward the blood-red heaven, imploring mercy and forgiveness. Others leaped about the streets with violent gesticulations and cries of "The end has come !" or fell upon their knees, beating their breasts and confessing their sins aloud. An old gentleman in California became be-came very jealous because his young wife went to a ball with a good-looking fellow, and stayed out until broad daylight. day-light. He went to a Justice of the Peace and told his story, winding up with, "I want yer to help me, l'or that ar thing has been goin' on about long enough." "Well," said the Justice, "you can write down to Yreka and see if some of the lawyers can't get you a divorce. "Divorce!" roared the angry man. "who the deuce wants a divorce?" The Justice began to get angry. "If you don't want a divorce, what the deuce brought you here ?" "Why, I want an injunction to stop further proceedings." |