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Show INKLINGS. The first almanac was printed about 14G0. The Koman eiupire was once sold at auction. The advertising receipts of the London Lon-don Times have sometimes reached f 125, 0U0 in a single month. A Providence mau thrashed his better half, was tried and fined 820, and tho abused angel washed and earned earn-ed the money to let him loose. A Connecticut ''General" has invented invent-ed an almsnac good for 300 years. lie advertises that if any man, after using it for 300 years, isn't satisfied with it, another almanac will be furnished gratis. Unrequited love is too much for Xew York State men. The latest victim vic-tim is now "lying upon his side, with his knees under his chin, his feet bare, and hair disheveled, and over- all a loosely-thrown blanket." An Ohio eirl "can always tell Sunday Sun-day or Sabbath, from any other day in the week, from the number of men and boys, old and young, with guns and revolvers, making for the woods and people's farms." The following was an advertisement in a Tennessee paper': Lost or strade from the sciiber a shepe all over black one leg was black and half his body all persons shall receive five dollars to bring him. He was a she gote. A Norwegian lady has arrived in Milwaukee with some twenty of her children. She says there are so many accidents she didn't think it safe to bring them all on one boat, as in case of wreck she wouldn't have heart to commence com-mence life in a new country. She expects the rest of them early in January. Jan-uary. An odd specimen of the deer species has been killed in Juneau county, Wis. Three of its hoofs were clear white, while the other was black. The deer was wounded on Friday of last week, its windpipe severed, and its throat cut almost through ; and yet it took to its heels, and not until Monday Mon-day afternoon, after a long chase, was it overtaken, having lived three days after its throat was cut. In Minnesota recently, a little girl and boy wandered away from the house of their father, and subsequently were found dead by the Indians. The boy lay on his back, having apparently died without much suffering. The girl had taken her rinirs from her ears and, wrapping them with a lock of her hair, in a small piece uf cloth, had put the little parcel in her pocket, and then lain down and died from old and hunger. hun-ger. From C'alil'iirnia : "W hen the diggings dig-gings were paying well, lienor Blitz viited a culch, and, before a laree audience, au-dience, exhibited his legerdemain. During the pel foruiance ho lookout ' his handkerchief, threw it into the uir, cau-ht it a?ain, when he took a ivvtuty-duilar piece out of it, akirie the buys if they could do that. Old l'cte, a 'forty-niner,' who had never cliang' d his milling shirt since became into the diL.'L'iii.i;s, immediately went upon the pkitfirin. took otf his shirt, dipped the tail of it into a bucket of ! water, held it up, and wrung out ju in guid du-t, including fifteen pounds of .-ub-oil. H.iu tout the ncit mule train." |