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Show INKLINGS. St. Louis prides herself upon thirty-four thirty-four charitable institutions. Car-loads of furs and taas are continually con-tinually going eastward across the continent. con-tinent. Sums as large as $25,000 are said to have been lost in Saratoga and Long Branch gambling houses by respectable business men this summer. A 'Wisconsin clergyman failed to keep his appointment to preach in one of the churches of that city, on account of the "duplex arrival of the mail," as he wrote the committee. His wife had twins. The patrons of husbandry, in Missouri Mis-souri have a side degree into which they initiate horse thieves. After the ceremony nothing can be seen of the candidate, and the ground is all nicely EOiJei over. The last words of a young Kentuck-ian Kentuck-ian were,"Father,you have killed me." They were made after a discharge of the ancestral shot-gun, in a family unpleasantness, un-pleasantness, aud were eminently truthful. truth-ful. A farmer who lives Jn "Hardscrab-blc," "Hardscrab-blc," central New York, says that, owing to the drought and poor land together, his grass was so dry he had to lather it before he could mow it, and where it was dry, to rake it with a fine-tooth comb. Dr. Russell, an American, and married mar-ried in Ohio, has been divorced in London, Lon-don, entirely on his own representation, representa-tion, and without the appearance of his wife or the respondent. Now is a chance for the Chicago press to come out strong on the laxity of English law in respect of marriage. A distinguished scholar died in consequence con-sequence oi a hurt received in the leg by a chair slipping from under him while taking down a book from an upper up-per shelf. A French biographer remarked re-marked that "such a death was, for a literary man, to expire on the field of honor." This is the pure, undiluted English for "Jordan's a hard road to travel :" Perambulatory progression in the pe-destrianary pe-destrianary excursion along the far-famed far-famed thoroughfare of fortune, cast up by the banks of the sparkling river of Palestine, is indeed attended with a heterogeneous conglomeration of unforeseen un-foreseen difficulties. The chairman of an Iowa vigilance committee, who was instructed to duck an obnoxious citizen, thus reported to his constituents : '"We took the thief to the river, made a hole in the ice, and proceeded to duck him ; but he slipped through our hands and hid under un-der the ice. All our efforts to entice him to come out failed, and he has now retained his advantage some hours." |