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Show IXKLlXiN A red nose is what incited a Nashville Nash-ville girl to commit suicide. A Memphis hotel has a trained owl to catch mice. M omen enjoy their rights as outdoor laborers in England. I'r. Peters, a New England star-gazer, star-gazer, has discovered a new asteroid. The hole is already bein dug in Chicago in which Mr. Potter Palmer's $2,iJOri,0(JO hotel is to he buried. The balloon that went from Paris to Tours showed no signs of fatigue, though it was a good deal blown. In .Kussin the potato is considered the apple of the devil, which was the forbidden fruit of Paradise. A Canadian clergyman made his wife drunk recently, then incarcerated herinaniad house, and solaced himself him-self by marrying a widow. A lady of Morgan county, Indiana, who had occasion to discharge her husband, hus-band, gave him $M and told him to "git." lie got. Mrs. Polly Icer, of Montgomery county, Intl. , has au unmarried daughter daugh-ter weighing oUO pounds, and is willing to have a bon-in-htw. Josh Billiags lectured at Steinway Hall on Thursday night, on "Milk," with incidental facetious references to the cream of the joke. , Mrs. Traffick died suddenly in a New Orleans dentist's oflice, after having a looth drawn. The dentist has not done much traffic since. Canada talks of a new Pacific railway rail-way that is. she has the money tied up, and will hire American brains to build the road and run the trains. Two infants took a walk in Columbus, Colum-bus, the other day, and people stared unmercifully at them. They were Dr. Francis Hoy and his wife, aged respectively res-pectively one hundred and ninety-five years. An Uregoniau six-footer exhibits in the State fair a six-footed colt of his own raising, and also a bull with two tails. In the latter instance, however, the prize will probably be awarded to a Hibernian competitor, who offers a talc with two bulls. The new winter muds have small looking-glasses inserted in the under side, which make them very convenient, conve-nient, and in the next edition of the style we shall have apartments for rouge and lily white, with an automatic hair-brush attached. An Irishman made a sudden bolt into a druggist shop, took from his pocket a soda water bottle filled wi;h some pure liquor, and handing it across the counter, exclaimed : "There, doctor, snulf that, will you ?" The doctor did as he was directed, and pronounced the liquor to be genuine wbi-ky. "Thank you, doctor," said the irihuian. "Hand it to me again, if you please." The doctor did as directed ai-'aii, and a.-ked what he meant. "(Jell, thin," stiid Pat, "it you will have it, the priest told me not to drink any of this unless I got it from the doctor. So, here's your health, and the pric.-t's health." |
