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Show INKLINGS. Five more sons and daughters-in-law may find vacancies on application to the British royal family- The city authorities of Sedalia, Mo., have been sued for $31,527 for having an inefficient fire department. A malignant disease, the name of which is not stated, has attacked the cattle in western Kansas. They are dying off rapidly. A scorched cat saved a valuable Dubuque Du-buque property. Fire broke out in a room where puss was shut up. Her wails were bo immense that it awakened awaken-ed the sleepers, and the fire was extinguished. ex-tinguished. "mistur toinus brown, president of nashurinal bank, fellerdelfy," waa the superscription on a letter that passed through the Boston post-office, recently. re-cently. A new ticket-printing machine, which has just been patented in England Eng-land and Prussia, prints railway tickets on both sides, perforates them, and numbers them consecutively by one process, and does all this at the rate of two hundred a minute. The Fond du Lac (Wis.) Daily tells the story of a youth from Pierce Co., who, in attempting to astonish Osh-kosh Osh-kosh with feats of jugglery, forced a piece of wire up his nostril so far that the services of a surgeon were necessary to extract it. A man in Exeter, Scott County, Ills., accidentally ran a splinter into his thumb, which at the time he .scarcely noticed, but in a few hours afterwards erysipelas set in, followed by gangrene, and he died soon afterward. St. Louis drinks six thousand gallons gal-lons of lager beer daily, or over two millions of gallons a year. Over 2,500,0U0 are invested in the thirty breweries of the city, and nearly a million bushels of barley is annually malted. They have a female butcher at St. Albans, Vt., who carries on quite an extensive business in the hog-killing line. She travels about the country in the vicinity of the village, and slaughters slaught-ers porcine quadrupeds for the farmers at the rate of fifty cents per hog. A letter from Paris in the Pall Hall Gazette says : "It is strange and painful pain-ful to see groups of well-dressed women looking in at the windows of pork butchers and tripe shops with the same eager curiosity with which they used to gaze at ribbons and bonnets." "Gentlemen of the jury," charged a western judge, "in this case counsel on both sides are unintelligible, the witnesses ou both sides are incredible, and the plaintiff aud defendant are both such characters that to me it i? indifferent which way you give the verdict." |
