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Show INKLINGS. Illinois limners an finning arisjuiu-tioiw arisjuiu-tioiw to prevent gun ;ers trcsmin; on : their farm. Mrs. Tabitha MGrath, aged 109, ,4ied recently in Ohio, leaving IS'1 de- "endanLs behind her. ! In Uoston, a saloon displays a pla-I pla-I jard on w'uieJi h ''No religious diseu-ss-ins allowed here." I A sign in a New Jersey resUurant read thus: ''It' you see anything you ion't wan1., ring tor it." The hoard of Alderman of New Bedford Bed-ford recently adjourned on account. 01 the presence of bats in their room. A wealth lover of chess is about to : start a paper at Dubuque, devoted cx-; cx-; fllnsively to the interests of the game. Fechter's new theatre in Boston is to be cabled the Globe Theatre, and will : e opened in September with the irama of "Monte Cristo." The editor of the Terre Haute (Ind.) I Gazelle complains that people nowa-I nowa-I Jays can't drink so much whiskey as ! they used to, without dancer of "Jim- jams." The Cardiff giant has wandered out '; to Evansville, Indiana, where, aeeord- ing to a local paper, be holds possess-i possess-i ion of a vacated drug store, anddra .vs ! crowds. The slaug expression "hunky dory" is Scotch, and is a syuonyme of the Xatin "non oompo.s." He is ''unco' Jour in the uptak," is the full express- ion, and means half-witted, Don Juau Foster Las a rancho in Los Angeles and Diego counties, Cala- : foniin, containing throe hundred sqnare miles. He can ride twenty-seven twenty-seven miles in a straight line without Jeaviug his own land. An Ohio Journal attributes the partial par-tial success of a convict in an attempt to escape from the Penitentiary to "that indefinable sort of personal magnetism mag-netism that enables men to exert so strong an influence over other men." A man passed through Council Bluffs, Iowa, a day or two ago on his ; return to Missouri, after having tried to lire ill Minnesota. "Don't like it ' mp thar," said he. "Have nine nonths of winter, and the rest of the time it's d d late in the fall." A scientific disciple of Izaac Walton contends that trout fishing is not a eruel sport, and arzues that, in being taken from water, where there is but Kttle oxygen, into the air, the wriggling wrigg-ling of the fish on dry land is indica- . tive of ecstasy, and not of agony. |