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Show INKLINGS. The island of Cuba is a little larger than the united area of Maine, Yer-; Yer-; mont and llhode Island. A census taker in Minnesota kept i bis lists open four hours in order to ; take down a new citizen, whose birth I was expected. It netted him only two j cents, and he regrets that it wasn't ' twins. 1 Milford, Pa., fulfils the prophecy of Isaiah ''In thai, day seven women shall lay hold of one man;" accurate statistics showing that place to contain a proportion of seven females to one man. English journals boast that their navy is stronger now than it has ever been since G reat Britain was called the mistress of the seas. From the returns made to the United Uni-ted States Marshal, it would seem that Tennessee is the healthiest country on the face of the globe, and the most remarkable re-markable of any for longevity. A Newark merchant got up a lot of fans with his business card printed thereon, which he gave to a deacon to be distributed at camp meeting, but that gentleman turned an honest penny by hiring boys to. sell them at five cents apiece. The Xew Orleans Tunes' special from the Salt Lake controversialists represented Orson Pratt as being rubbed down with opideldoc, and curry-combed by his six wives, while a brass band played '"Shoo Fly" under his window ; and Newman stretched out on a ladder in front of the Salt Lake Hotel, was having his backbone filed down and his ears riveted back by a Gentile blacksmith. The New York Star has this illustration illus-tration : "Jane, give the baby some laudanum and put it to sleep, and then bring me my parasol ; I am going to a meeting for the education of mothers in the care of young children." ';Ycs, mum." Average weekly death rate in New York city, 650 ; of children under five years of age, 400. That's so, So-rosis. So-rosis. A wise old darkey in the southern part of old Kentuck came to his master mas-ter the day before the late election, and said he : ';Mars John, I wants to vote the democratic ticket. The fac' is, I think de niggers ought to split up anyhow. any-how. If he goes an' vote democrat, the radicals say we is ungrateful, an' then the League fines us five dollars an' warns us. If we votes radical, de Ku Klu '11 git us shu'. I wants to divide di-vide like, so as to make it de intrust ob borf parties to treat us kin' an' friendly." The darkey is a statesman and a philosopher. |