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Show j IKLIGS. j 1 L'anaJn complains of nsuj. M.jLiie export more oranges than MesMiia. I One thousand cinicaut-s u uioiiiL are pouring into Oregon. Ten out of every twelve L'aiilornians chew tobacco. i?o the papers .-ay. A New Orleans laJy boatd that her 'hair is live feet ten inches long. , Cio)uet is a more ancient game than most people ppo.-e.- It waa iutro-iduced iutro-iduced into Kngland from France in IGU under the name of pete-mde. 1 Early piety. .Matilda Jane (catch-ins: (catch-ins: the pastor after Sunday school): "Oh, Mr, jilea.se what would you charge to christen uiy doll '.' ' ; Xew Vork is to have cheap, serviceable ser-viceable street cabs, which will Ue appreciated ap-preciated by diof-e who are accustomed to pay exorbitant rates. 1 Among the visitors at tho Hound Lake Camp Meeting, near Saratoga, on Wednesday week, were the muscular Christians, John Morrisscy and John C. lleenan. The New York OluLe mentions a report that James L'tsk, jr., has bought .up Niagara Falls, so as to have bulli-cicnt bulli-cicnt material with which to water the ! stock of Krie ! A Hartford horse seizes mts iu his i mouth when they come to his manger to .steal his oats, shakes them like a terrier until satisfied thoy are dead, !and then throws them out of the tin. A woman suffrage lecturer in Iowa calls upon ail women who want to become be-come voters to IbrgcL there is such a thing as modesty. "Put it oil'," she saya, "and become like men." : A young candidate for the legal profession pro-fession was asked what he would first do wheo employed to bring an uction. ! "Ask for money on account.," was the i reply. He passed. 1 A burglar, who attempted to enter a : house in Gcrmantown through a window, win-dow, a few nights ago, startled a little girl who was sleeping in the room. "Half awake," she exclaimed. "Don't touch that candy," and the burglar fled. At a recent English weduing, the bride's pet terrier got into churoh, and upon the administration of the post-; post-; ceremonial kiss went ibr the bride-; bride-; groom in a remarkably demonstrative manner. I A mother-in-law in Lausiugburg.New I York, is trying to rid her oyes of a ; quantity of red pepper, which in somo i strange way or other came through the keyhole of her daughter-in-law's room. ; It is stated that one ol the lending Tammany politicians of New York Icity, who buys diamond buckles for his: daughter's shoes, was lour years ago a 1 "conductor of a one-wheeied car on an incipient railroad." i Philadelphia is now in a quandary about floating bathhouses. One of them has floated off, and the balance, being constructed of very soft wood, are absorbing water so rapidly that they are almost daily expected to sink. The people of Key West, Fla., allow their preachers thirty minutes to each sermon. Sometimes, wlion the mau who holds the watch goes to j sleep, they preach a few minutes! longer, but the regular schedule time! is thirty minutes. |