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Show IXKLlMiS. New Y fii'k lias three false alarms of fire t- (!!; rial (ho. A Philadelphia family left (Tie gas turning while tbvy wont to Europe and back. Great siagers are often in debt; they get into the way of running up high joores. Judy. What in the uo of telling how hostile hos-tile armies are composed? With a great battle in prospect it is altogether unreasonable to expect either of them to be composed. Boston Advertiser. A colored woman made a charge in she New Haven police court, last Saturday, Sat-urday, that a certain iase.il had assaulted as-saulted her, and choked her until she "was black in the face.' A flock of bees swarmed into a church in Gloucester, Mass., last Sunday, daring divine service, but retreated when ihe sexton shook the contribution box at thern. Every family in Olathe, Kan., has supplied itself with a Maltese or Cashmere Cash-mere goat. They -are good milkers, giving a gallon a day of the richest milk, equal to the cream of a cow's milk. Cincinnati rejoices over a lately established es-tablished manufactory of looking-glasses, which is the "only one in the country coun-try west of New York, except the one at San Francisco. A few weeks since, a lecturer at one of the chemical schools attached to the University of Dublin, aked one of the students if he could plate steel? '"No," replied the witty collegian, ''but I could steal plate." An old couple at Cambridge, Ma., aaarrelled, and the man took a watch 9 gave his wife when they were married, mar-ried, and sold it in Boston. She then stole his false teeth while he slept, and kept them till he brought the watch back. Draw game. Elections will be held this fall in all the States except Oregon, New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Sixteen States are to choose United States Senators, and five have already done io. Oregon has its election in June, and New Hampshire, Connecticut, Connecti-cut, and Rho-ie Island in the Spring. A Pittsburg magistrate, who unites with Lis official functions the business of an undertaker, holds court in his wareroom, and deals out ju.-tice with -ne hand upon a plate bearing the Siine of some person deceased, and the other upon a book of oiders for funerals. The litigants sit upon coffins while i'aeir cases are being disposed of. Many years ago m England, there was a band of freebooters, all quite young men. One of them abandoned it, reformed, studied law. and rose to the nnk of judge. While sitting to try or.e of the band, whom he recognised, recog-nised, but not in the least thinking the prisoner would know him, and feelinc, some curiosity to learn some-tiling some-tiling concerning them, asked his old chum what .had become of them. The -pri-ou-T, heaving a sigh, replied : ''They were ali hanged but your lordship lord-ship and rue.'" |
