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Show IXKX1NGS. In Injiaua sucking eggs is recommended recom-mended as a cure for dyspepsia. In Oslikoh, Wisconsin, billiard rooms serve the purpose of churches on Sunday. The total number of French prisoners prison-ers on the hands of tlie Germans are f.mr -Marshals, UO Generals, lu.OUO ollicers, and :J20,UU0 rank and file. A drunken man sprawling on the ground in Paterson the other night anxiously wanted to know whether "anybody else had been struck by that earthquake ' George Eliot says : "Half the sorrows sor-rows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter." A young lady in Kansas City bade delianee to fashion by putting on her dress wrong side out and wearing it out of doors in that way. She never discovered dis-covered her mistake until her attention was called to it on her return home. A bee hive, full of bees, was shipped over the Chicago and Hock Island railroad rail-road one day last week. It is thought the baggage man will be able to work in about two weeks. He Is at home now poulticing himself. Some of the 3Iaine papers admit that, notwithstanding the prohibitory law, intoxicating liquor is sold there without restraint. The only effect visible vis-ible is that the quality of the article is worse than that found where there are no prohibitory laws. An old lady of Connecticut, who lost her purse a short time since at New Haven, declared, on its being restored to her, that she would not attempt to interfere with the reward which was stored up in Heaven for the finder, by ottering him money. A dissolute individual at Kokoma, Ind., sold his wife for 10 some time since, and drank the proceeds. Xow that he has been restored to his senses sen-ses and a proper realization of his loneliness, lone-liness, he proposes to test the validity of the transfer before a legal tribunal. Otto Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind's husband, having squandered his wife's f'rtune, the nightingale is now so reduced re-duced as to be compelled to teach music mu-sic fur a living. The ill-matched pair have separated by mutual consent,-and the spendthrift must now shift for himself. him-self. Mr. Nathan Hall, of Hurhan:, Conn., in is.",, thanked God that ho lived in a "hilly country where it was impossible impossi-ble to build railroads." To-day the cars of a railroad run through the door-yard door-yard of his place, between his house and barn, and within four feet of his side door. The frequency of fatal accidents from the careless u-e of burning fluid seems to have no effect in deterring servant maids fa in the uingof it for lire kindling kind-ling purposes. At Philadelphia the o'h- r day, a young girl named Annie Miller, was li-o, ally roasted alive, in an attempt to ignite some wood with an oij-can. |
