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Show l.KLIX(iS. , "Isthata tweod overcoat '?" iuquircd a friend of a Bohemian who wits biiiyer-ing biiiyer-ing in a spring duster. "No:, it's a frieze. " .' All the islands in Lake Erie are now reached with teams, the ice connecting with the mainland beins very thick and perfectly safe. - A Maine paper asserts that Nathaniel Natha-niel Stetson, of Durham, recently lost a valuable cow by having swallowed a darning ncedlo. The London Tclcyraph is the most widely circulated paper . in England. From July 1 to Dec. 21 its daily issue averaged 190,855 copies. . Over 100,000 men, colliers, railway hands, and others, are said to have, been deprived ofr employment by tLe Pennsylvania coal strike. ,'',, ' Bankruptcy is becoming fashionable among the British aristocracy.. The latest victim is the Earl of Orkney, a representative peer of Scotland.. The Hon. Mb Yclverton (Lady Avonmore) has purchased a farm in Missouri, and intends to remain there. Her only companion is her maid, "John," said a hen-pecked husband, hus-band, " I wish it was the fashion to trade wives as it is to trade horses." j " Why so?" "I'd cheat somebody before night." A lady in Fond du Lac, Wis., slipped on the ice ad broke her leg, and the first remark she made after the accident acci-dent was, "I wonder if Ilarry will marry me now!" The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal learns that a recent whirlwind near Smiihfield suddenly took a flock of chickens up out of sight. They were never seen after leaving the ground. Here's the way a Vermont Dutchman Dutch-man acknowledged the return of a lost pocketbook containing $000 : " Uob, you is one honest man ; I tells you what I'll do I'll shake you for the lager." The credulous Californians, in their lottery fever, have been buying lloyal Havana Lottery tickets which prove to be counterfeits, printed by the ream in New York, and peddled everywhere by irresponsible agents. A Pittsburgh stone-cutter was directed di-rected to put his employer's "imprint" at the foot of a big monument. To the boss's horror he "sculped" it in huge letters directly under the scroll inscribed, " Sacred to the memory of." They rather imposed upon Mr. Greeley out west. At Lawrence he was taken in a carriage to see the city and its improvements. Keeping him engaged in conversation, the irreverent scamps of his escort drove five or six times around a square, at each circuit passing a very fine building in course of erection. At about the fifth round he broke forth : "Well, well, l.iw-rencc l.iw-rencc is growing rapidly. Why. then; is a very lurire numl it of tine buildings troing up. I'on tyou fancy there if a little monotony in the architecture, though?" |