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Show "a""""aM.aaaMM INKLIAGS. Napoleon went to Sc-Pan, but unfortunately un-fortunately be saw William. The New York Evening Post tells of twenty married women in that neighborhood neigh-borhood who propose to become preachers, but who heretofore ''have only been lecturers." The Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette says that the flies are so troublesome that rome of their best sleepers are oblige J to keep awake during divine service. A wag in Cincinnati bribed a band to playlthe. "Marseillaise" the other evening in a beer garden. A subscription subscrip-tion is now being taken up to buy new instruments, and the doctor's bill will be paid out of the Teutonic fund. A young widow, misnamed Ladd, has been appointed a Justice of the "-.Peace in Maine. jS'ow she will get a husband, for the law compels Justices of the Peace to marry persons whenever when-ever requested. The New Haven Register says : "In the article on Yale College in our last issue, for 'alum water' read alma wiatsr." This is a companion piece for the Iowa editor's erratum, "In the poem on our first page, for 'dirty shirt' read 'duty shirk.' " The compositors' cases in the mission mis-sion printing houses in China have each over sis thousand compartments for the reception of the numerous letters let-ters of the Chinese alphabet. The cases ca-ses are built in the form of an amphitheatre, amphi-theatre, and the compositor stands in the middle. Every letter he sets he selects from the six thousand. This is the way one Arkansas editor gees for another: "The volcanic, pimple-headed, blister-brained, owl-faced, spike-nosed, weasel-eyed, -web-footed, peg-legged, liliputian, foggy pettifogger pettifog-ger of the Democrat does not like our personal appearance. Until this foul-mouthed, foul-mouthed, unwiped, excrementitious, brazen debaser has been run through a sieve, a filter, scoured, scrubbed, swabbed, sponged and disinfected, until he is a fit object to enter decent society, we will forbear having anything to say about him." Greeloy's manuscript is sometimes misunderstood, but the Philadelphia Lecture Committee, who sought to engage en-gage him to lecture next winter, were evidently familiar with his writing, for they read his reply right along without hesitation, as follows : "New York. "Dear Sir I am vaccinated and yawning at Ishmael ; he surely is not fishing shad all the while at Sam's ; bit I wrote a line to fetch her forth ; deception is thus underrated viciously if Idaho fails. Carrot promises to wait. Perhaps spirits are needed entirely en-tirely ; my bow. Bores, Horace Greelzt." |