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Show INKLINGS. J Jlcnofthc time Watchmakers. Cftrlyle says tllscourLcsy origiuatcs in dullness alone. Tlic life of Professor Agaasiz will be written by his wife. Beeeher recommends piety as a cure tor scolding wives. 1 According to Punch the best substitute substi-tute for coal is warm weather. Hon. Charles Sumner has been in 1 the Senate twenty-three years. A son of Charles Dickens has recently re-cently been admitted to the bar. Four devils have been cast out of one printing oilice in Illinois in a month. Outofl7S,07fi children attending the public schools in Tennessee, 24,-'J'25 24,-'J'25 are colored. A path where you can stand with one loot on the zig and the other on the stag is awful crooked. A Terre Haute man, who has been trying to make Bboth ends meet, is living on head cheese and ox-tail soup. Schoolmaster: "What is nothing?" Boy: "It is when a man asks you to hold his horse, and just says, 'Thank you.' " A popular doctor in Chicago was presented with a silver-mounted skeleton skel-eton on Xew Year's by his admiring patients. In Corinth, Mainc,an amateur dramatic dra-matic performance has been given in the Baptist church, the leading members mem-bers playing in it. Caleb Gushing is priming himself for the address before the national convention of Mexican veterans tliis week, atVorcester. The Xew York Timet anys quinine and India rubber are the two great Ixxms which the discovery of America bestowed upon mankind. Joaquin Miller was recently presented pre-sented to Harriet Hosmertiu Rome. He looked at her critically and then said: "Hosmcr, I like your eye." Secretary Belknap is said to be working with a view to his election to the United States Senate from Iowa at the expiration oi' Senator Wright's Henry W.ilterson, of the Courier-Journal, Courier-Journal, says the abominable practice Df going out between acta will only bo stopped when every man carries a pocket demijohn. ' School teachers at Fall River, Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, are not permitted to whip pupils until the day after that on which the offense meriting punishment punish-ment was committed. The following advertisement appeared ap-peared in tho Philadelphia Jjidycr of Thursday last: "Wanted To trade a vault in Monument Cemetery for a piano. 227 North tith st." According to the Air Ifiren ficfix-ter, ficfix-ter, there are in Connecticut "very few churches which would be willing to admit negroes to membership on an equality with the whites." The refreshing smell of beans and doughnuts again permeates the State-house State-house basement, and the soul of the wanderer from Cranberry Center positively pos-itively longs for home. Boston Globe, Hard times is the great peace-maker. In Nevada, it is said, all the revolvers re-volvers and bowies are spouted, and the editors ot papers have all gone crazy. There hasn't been, a shooting affray for a monili. |