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Show INKLINGS. A California man lias ten thousand hens. A negro man was torn to death by dogs near Kaleifc'h, N. C, the other day, and the coroner's jury implicated two negroes "as accessories." Mrs. Boffin thinks that for a man invested with only "temporary powers," pow-ers," the Pope is making a good deal of fuss about the loss of them. Columbus, Ga., has spent 23,0Ut during the present year for drainage, and the people don't know which is drained worst, the city or the treasury. A Kentucky tobacconist says that some of tho brands of smoking tobacco are one-third hops. No one would have disputed him even if he had said cabbages. The Xew York Times can recall iw instance so illustratiye of the power of economy to transmute poverty into wealth as that aiforded by the case of one of the assistant clerks of the Board of Supervisors in that city, who, since 1SC1, on a salary of 5-1,800 a year, has managed to save up about S300,000 a year. - , liev. Dr. ,Stoue, of San .Francisco, visited all the brothels in the city one night to get items for a sermon. Among other items he obtained a black eye, and had to pay for sixteen bottles of wine which the girls ordered or-dered at his expense. lie took up a eo'leetion for the heathen to pay for the wine. They claim iu California that everything every-thing which grows, grows to a larger size there than anywhere else, and the latest example is the growth of oysters from the east, transplanted in the Bay of San Francisco, which the papers of that city say grow iu less than a year to a size greater than they do in their native waters in two or three years. Donn Piatt's Drake : "I do not know a man in the whole world possessed of so few qualifications for the bench as the late Senator. He never did nor never will apply himself to the study of any subject, and while he carries his nerves outside his coat, his inside is stuffed with nothing but exasperating exasperat-ing prejudices. He bounces like a ball, and goes off like uitro-glycerine." A We.-t Hickory, Pa., farmer lately heard a scratching under his bed. Putting Put-ting on his trousers, he reached for the intruder, and iu a minute hadn't enough clutlu's on to make a bib for a china doll. He found himself in the corner, partly scalped, with his lower limbs looking as though he had been through a wool-carding machine, while, with a spit and a giowl, a catamount disappeared disap-peared through the open window. Mark Twain writes the f ilhiwing an--wcr to a correspondent : louiir An-t'lmr An-t'lmr es, Ag:is-;iz A-. recoajmend authors t e it li-h, becuue the phosphorus phos-phorus in it neikes brains So far you are correct. But 1 cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat at least, not with certainty. If the sp-viineii co:iip i-iiion you send is about your fair u.-ua! average, 1 should ju Ige thai perhaps a roil le of whales would be all you would want f.-r the present. Not the large-t kind, but -imply good n.iddling-sizej whalcj. |