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Show Bob tailed overcoats are having a short career just now. Play on the word "short." The Kaw Indians resort to an ingenious in-genious way of getting beef. They salt the railroad track. The champion memory man of Iowa is lu4 years old, who remembers his fourth birthday. Another effort is making in England to abolish the system of purchasing commissions in the army. A Minnesota minister, eighty years old, has just married a girl of siiteen to a nice young fellow. Why is Gibraltar one of the most wonderful places in the world ? Because Be-cause it is always on the rock, but never moves. A shoddy wedding in J'ougbkeeiisie, was immortalized by the organist playing, play-ing, by request, "Those Tawsels on theButes,'' instead of the "Wedding March." The Board of Health, of London, find that scarlet fever, and other diseases, dis-eases, are much disseminated by the carelessness with which loul linen is mingled iu the laundries. One half the sugar mills of Louisiana are at work, and it is said the yield of sugar will be larger than that of the past year, in spite of the bad effects of the drouth upon the caue. Fur and leather clothing is used by about half of the inhabitable globe, for these materials prevail in Siberia, Northern Europe, two-thirds of .North America, and the southern extremity of Suutn America. A pleasant slip of the tongue is recorded re-corded by a French paragraphist. A lady was enjoying the society ofker lover, wheu the bell rang, and the servant announced the "doctor." "Tell him I am ill, and cannot see him," was the reply. The rinderpest has extended its ravages rav-ages to .Northeastern Germany, and is causing a great deal of damage in that country. It has also made its appearance appear-ance in Austria, and the government of that country has adopted energetic measures to suppress it. There are at present in the Michigan Michi-gan University tweuty-seveu female students, fifteen of whom are students in medicine and one of law. The law student is a Miss Kilgoose, of Indiana. Bather a suggestive name lor a lawyer. It is said that when a Newport, B, I., policeman discovers a fire, he deliberately de-liberately thinks the matter over. If the fire is likely to involve the loss of a million dollars or so, he gives the alarm; but if the probable damage is email he concludes that "it won t pay j to make so' much fuss over it," and j lets it burn |
