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Show Nw England towns are prcparirg for "Deooration day." 1 A colored orchestra from Kentucky haa started lor Vienna. Newark, N. J., proposes to run a "horee-rail road" by gleam. Kerosene averazed ono viotim a week last year in MadUoo, Wis. An observant ehect at Iowa FallF, publishes prosiiectivo motherhood ly name. The Iowa Slate Woinmi's Suffrage association has a surplus of $1 t'o in 11 a treasuiy. North Carolina has begun to get hor ioo manufacturing maciiine.4 in running run-ning order. Florida's gold mine is reported by experts to be almost big enough to till a tooth with. The fish-markets of Burlington are announced "open wi'.h all tno new spring styles." Massachusetts constables havo taken to closing bakeries on Sunduy, to the great crustiness of tho pcoplo. A widower in Red Hook township, Marion oounfy, Iowa, recently traded five ohildren for a half interest in a saw mill. John King, the first Englishman who signed the total abstinence pledge, is now an old man, and without a dollar. dol-lar. Terrible lesson. A Hindoo pantomime, the first ever produced, was performed in Calcutta, reoentlv. It was entitled "An Old Man Mad for Marriage." The latest mode do Paris is to have one's furB trimmed with luce; which is something like having hot plum pudding with icc-oream bsucc, Massachusetts boasts of printing "half the religious journals of tho country," but it docfln t say so much about prin'ing nearly all the "flish" ones. Rumors aro thickening of a consolidation consoli-dation of all tho minor telegraph companies com-panies into one, of sufficient mugnitudo to pretend to rivalry wuh tho Western Union. Large quantities of shot, slugs, und old nails, surrounded in each instance by fish, are coming into tho Philadelphia Philadel-phia market. The fi-sh aro sold by weight, of course. Rhode Islanders are multitudinously signing petitions for the restoration of the death penalty, the State not being largo enough to isolate its murderers from the rest of the community. A jar of alcohol exploded the other day in an apothecary's Bhop, at Elizabeth, Eliza-beth, N. J., setting the bmldiDg on fire, and customers are asking if that's tho sort of stuff tho druggist makes his tinctures with, Connecticut eider is made of carbonate carbon-ate of soda, brown sugar, oitrio acid, iron filings and water; and dealers therein point with pride to the analysis, and proolaim that there at last is a beverage tree from intoxicating qualities quali-ties The Cincinnati Times is troubled with a congressional goblin called "Dodds," and prints his name in big black letters, so that pcoplo, when they see the same may bo prepared to exclaim, ex-claim, "Avaunt thoo, Satan " Dodds voted for the back-pay steal. Cincinnati papers complain of the quantity of Ohio river water to Le found in every barrel of Cincinnati whisky, They ought to complain because be-cause there is not more water to be found in it. The water is better than tho whisky. Courier-Journal. |