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Show j l.KLI.M.. ! China i.x a blissful region for a plate of rexideni'.e. There are no lawyers there. When our dispatches state that guns I bave been "dismantled," the reader will understand tluit their caps d breeches have been removed. At Waniega, a place in tho extreme west, id a shanty which bears ihe sign : "Here where you get a meal like your mother used to give yu." The purest natural water kilowij is I that of Loch Katrine, Scotland,--which I containB but two grains of solid matter in a gallon of Tit.imo grains. M'ls Lucy L-:e adv.H-tiscs in ;, issippi paper thar h' is of good birth and education, and is willing to marry an editor, believing; herself able to support one. A Michigan census-taker came across a man who bad been married five years, but hud never inquired his wife's Christian name. He always called her "Say !" At a lecture given in Frankfort, Ind. , not long since, the tickets read: ''.Blessed are the pure'iu heart, fur they shall hee God. Admit one." - One of the most beautiful conflagrations conflagra-tions that occurred in St- Louis this year was caused by u boy who soaked the family cat in kerosene and touched a match to her. She was a total loss. No insurance. - "John." s;iid ' a ))0city-snickeu man to his son, "I've made my will to-day. :' Ah I you were liberal to me, no doubt ' "Yes. John, I've come ! down handsome. I've willed you the 1 whole State of Virginia to make a living in, with the privilege of going elsewhere, if you can do better.'' A worthy gentleman walking by the shore, came acioss two lads engaged in fishing. Calling to t hem he said, 'Ladu, are you aw-i: p that the recording record-ing angel is making; a black mark against each of you for every fish you catch on a Sunday'.''' "Is he, though?" said ono of the urchins: "Then he ain't- having' much to do, for we haven t had a darned bite." Hull, a (jit. cr genius, had made frequent proini-cs to hi.- friends that he wotdd put an cud to himself. One stinging cold night he vowed ho would go out ami freeze to death. About eleven o'clock he returned shivering and snapping his finger". "Why doD-'t you liee.e? ' asked a loving relative. rela-tive. "L!y Jove!" said the p.scudu suicide, "when I freeze, I mean to take a warmer night than this for it. The Mu-H-atine Jont un say.-- an in-tere.-ting and pleasiut little tableau is j enacted ill thft city on ceitain even-j ings. A youiiL' man sticks little hilltt dvii.i: in the crack of a gate post for a young lady, while ' a jialou- rival watches him from the tippo.-ite side ol the stiect and carries ihein off. The annual eoiileienA; of "free Methodists," in sc-siou in 'cw York, and fuitc largely attended, has inaugurated inau-gurated a cru-ade again.-t .xu h "lri-pcrics "lri-pcrics and anuic- as lace.-, trinket, euibruideiic.-, civet sti ipc and other nonsensical gew gaws," worn by the ladies of the prc-cnt day. |