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Show Iron bridges are built in Kansas cheaper than wooden ones. A sign-board in Soutbitigton, Connecticut, Con-necticut, reads, "Pigs and Bibles for sale here." Mrs. Lntta Farnham, of Lagrange county, Wis., has just planted her sixth husband. Next ! Russia consumes less potatoes than the State of Delaware, as tho Russians don't like them. An Illinois radish weighs eight pounds, is eighteen inches long and fifteen fif-teen and a half in circumference. Prairie fires have burned stables, grain, farming implements, etc. , causing caus-ing considerable loss, in some portions of Iowa. A western beau is under medical treatment for lead-colic, induced by kissing a young lady of improved complexion. com-plexion. The body of a child, at Knoxville, Tenn., was recently swollen to twice its natural proportions by the bite of a spider. A contemporary says, in boiling onions or cabbage, place a dish of vinegar on the stove at the same time. The boiling vinegar will destroy the odor of the vegetables. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, a teamster1, team-ster1, sufering from the blues, appealed to a companion to shoot him. The accommodating fellow blew the top of his head off, and then rode off on the mule of the deceased. Two boys played at duelling, with shot-guns, on a La Cross, Wis., marsh, a few days ago, and one of them now suffers the penalty of a wounded arm and side. At Elizabethtown, New Mexico, on the 7 th ult., Charles Kennedy, who was under arrest on a charge of murder, mur-der, was taken from prison by a party of men, who were armed and disguised, and executed by hanging. Four citizens of Chillicothe, Ohio, have never stopped shaking long enough to die, though they are over a hundred years old. The pressure of fever and ague is ninety -five pounds to the square inch there. A train was stopped near Evausville, Ind., lately, by a fieri' goblin standing ahead on the track. An illuminated pumpkin proved to be the head and front of the terror; corn-hu.ks and corn-silk furnished the grizzly beard, and imagination did the rest. In the harbor of Hull, England, lately, a rope being hove ashore to moor a vessel, caught the captain by the leg, just below the knee, stripped the muscles from the bone, and ture his foot off. The Shakers of Tyringham, Mass., have decided to dispose of their property prop-erty and move to Lebanon Springs. The estate compri-es l'i,U(io acres of the finest farming laud in that neighborhood. neigh-borhood. A young woman in Sacramento is threatening to get a divorce on the ground of "protracted f'e.-tiviiics. " She says her husband celebrated his marriage mar-riage by geiti.iL' drunk, and has kept up the festival ever sinee. |