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Show INKLINGS. "A lass I am no more," as tho girl said when she got married. J-'lorida will raise enough sweet potatoes po-tatoes next year to supply the market. Boston bakers stamp their bread with their bare feet. .So a Boston paper says. .Many Ohio farmers have made themselves them-selves well-off by raising and selling cranberries. Miss Holland, Philadelphia, has willed fifteen thousand dollars to disabled dis-abled Presbyterian ministers. Some wit has discovered that the "embers of the dying year" are September, Sep-tember, November and December. Every plain girl has one consolation though not a pretty young lady, she will if she lives, be a pretty old one. It is nearly as impossible to get money out of a miser as it would be for a butcher to get mutton chops out of a battering ram. " An alderman visiting a church-yard with a friend, pointing to a shady, quiet nook, said, "This the spot wheie I intend in-tend being laid, if I'm spared." The Mahometan loathes the oyster as we do the scorpion or spider, and says of the Christian, "he is a dirty dog, for he eats oysters." Judge Elliott, of Washington county, Ala., it is said, was so drunk when his court was called to order, lately, that it was necessary to adjourn and send him to jail. A Newfoundland dog walked up to the polls in Fufaula, Ala., with a Democratic Dem-ocratic ticket in his mouth. His name was not found on the list and his vote was rejected. Tact, says the Providence Journal, is that peouliar skill, that nice perception, percep-tion, and that ready adaptation which socures success. It may be improved by observation and experience, but in its essence it is inborn and never acquired. ac-quired. Down in Tennessee enterprising editors, edi-tors, when they haven't room for the whole of a good magazine story which may strike their fancy, rewrite and condense con-dense it. An instance of this kind lately provoked a challenge from an infuriated in-furiated author. There is a young apple merchant of Boston, not yet 11 years of age, who is laying a -good foundation for the future. fu-ture. He employs five other boys younger than himself, apportioning them their districts for selling, and reaps a daily revenue of from $4 to 1 0. All but one attend school, and all are of native birth. An ambitious amateur once put up the play of the "Lady of Lyons" as a complimentary testimonial to himself. At the end of the first act he addressed the audience as follows: "Ladies and gentlemen Willi your kind permi.viou I will conclude the evening's entertainment entertain-ment by singing 'I would not J lie in Spring Time," as I find the pirt of 'Claude' a little too hefty for me." |
