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Show IXKT.TAGS. The surgeons ol' the l'il'tli German Army Corps are nearly all Jewg. The Lord Chamberlain has forbidden forbid-den the dancin of the "can-can:l at any of the London theatres. There are more pretty girls in Burlington, Bur-lington, X. J., than in any other town of the ("nited Slates. A vain woman in Xew Mexico endeavored en-deavored to pass herself off on the census-taker as only 10S, in the face of the fact that she had a granddaughter aged 00. A lady in Jasper county, Indiana, aged seventy-rive, wants a divorce from hei husband, aged seventy-eight, because he "spends half hi time running run-ning about with the girls." One Captain Stafford, of Kentish Town, Loudon, advertises a "remarkable "remark-able physiological discovery," by means of which persons can increase in height and symmetry of figure. They build cities very rapidly in the west. In Lawrence, Kansas, 0UU buildings have been erected since the beginning of the year, and of these the greatest part are substantial private residences. The clatter of the granite pavement around St. Paul's iu London interferes so seriously with the religious services that the officials have petitioned the city government to subsitute asphaltum for it. The name of Alphonso Ferdinand Senay Garcia Francisco Antonio Cortes Maria (ionsalvo Diego Juares Menten appears on the roll of newly-elected members of the Legislature of Xew Mexico. An English writer thinks the American Ameri-can early potatoes will come to an end ere lonj, for as each new variety is claimea to ripen about ten days earlier than any other, the time between planting and digging will soon be used up. There is a spring in Michigan so the papers say so strongly magnetic that a man who had drunk from it and went into a blacksmith shop, found the anvil on which he sat Btuck fast to biui, and had to have it amputated. ampu-tated. A Virginian negro recently created a good deal of astonishment at the Kich-uiond Kich-uiond fair by claiming to be the father of a spotted child, "captured two hundred miles from any human habitation habi-tation in the midst of the wilds of Africa. ' ' A Miss Ella Eu.ton, of Boone Co., Ind., is said to have lately disposed of a beautiful crop of blonde hair to a peddler from a Xew l'ork importing house, in order to provide the necessary neces-sary funds for the education of her sister. Horse stealing has been brought to a science in Texas. At San Antonio the other day a saddle was stolen from a horse while the owner and sheriff were standing looking at it, and at another time a horse was stolon while the owner had his arm run through the stirrup of the saddle. |