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Show IXKLIIVGS. Indiana reports two "beautiful youn ladies'' in training for a prize fight. A gay Lothario in Canada, at the age of 100, has just eloped with another ano-ther man's wife. - Prussia has 3j9 associations for the improvement of the soil by drainage, irrigation, and the building of dikes. "That fever-infested and hurricane-persecuted hurricane-persecuted locality," is the affectionate term which a Cincinnati paper applies to Chicago. A Detroit German recently became crazy over the European war,and armed arm-ed with a scythe began doing sentinel on the street. The State Geologist of Ohio declares de-clares that there are ten thosaud square miles of coal deposit in that State. They have turned up an ancient grasshopper iu Missouri, measuring lour inches in length, an inch across the back, and having hind legs three and one-half inches in diameter. It is supposed to be the grasshopper mentioned men-tioned by the preacher as likely to "become a burden." The latest Washington rumor is to the effect that Ben.Wade is to succeed Secretary Cos in the Cabinet, the latter lat-ter taking the English mission. Whether Ben's society is likely to add to either the comfort or dignity of the Cabinet, we are inclined to doubt; but one duty he can discharge to perfection, perfec-tion, and that is to swear himself in. A clever old lady residing next door to the Portsmouth Navy Yard is quite deaf. On the morning of the Fourth she was seated in her parlor while the marines were firing the national salute of thirty-sii heavy guns. As the final sixty-eight pounder went off she started up in her chair, and looking toward the door as though a visitor had rapped, called out, "Come in." A Paris correspondent of one of the London papers has adopted an ingenious inge-nious dodge to keep himself out of trouble. He carries about his person a paper on which is pasted his photograph, photo-graph, with the following certificate irom the war office written beneath : "This is to certify that 31. (whose likeness appears above) is well known to the writer, and is not a Prussian spy." As a train on the Wilmington and Weldon road reached Warsaw, N. (J., the other day, a Texas chap on board asked one of the settlers at the station, '"What kind of a country have you around here ?'' "Oh!" was the response, res-ponse, "we have a mighty nice country; all we lack is water and good society." The Carolina man was somewhat comforted com-forted by the assurance of the Texan that h 1 had the same advantage. |
