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Show HH II. pi I HI 11' 1 m 1 1 II wfJj Tuo priuoio-tl o lp.ition of the "girl of toe period" u s.iil to be to ' j Kit at tin) win loiv aai wicb tor the ooaiiu 1411." Mr. Enbi'e, of Lxutvister county, Til., utuQg ia t io e.r by a coanioa I honoy ban, :iu i aie-i ia half au flour i liO;a the uilctti. i A KeuosLm (U'is ) fisberniia lately ! took to tfcoiivin I eiht ha ml roj ! pounds of trout u;:d white fibh t'roia j his nut at cue haul, j A 'urmer at Al'uia, llonroe county, , i Iowa, i-i employing Cninesa field j hamR and S-iys they are worth mure j tbuu their weight, iu tea. j . Aq Irinli recruit was asked by his r offiunr, 'Whir's) 'our height?" to I which Pit replied, "i-'ivo fVet tec, or teu feet tive am uot exactly dure which. " A math girne of base-ball is to take pi ice at Peori.i, Illinois, between I nines compost). 1 of (hauliers on one I bide a id guveniLaeut OlEciels on the I oth9r. ' ; Two f.nhionunlo yourj2 laoies of ' Hartford, Ot., have beu Uid up for j rpairj from w-ariug liigh-Lee'od , : shoes; ami the doct r thinks be ha-, .- otaj'b thut will last him a jear, j I to straiten out their little toes j - A woimia was fatally stabbed at j , Cobden, Illinois, last week, by an-j an-j , other woman. They were engaged in ' piekiog strawberries and entered into j a rj'iarrel about politics, which result- el as above. The murderess is in jail. An old lake captain, at an Ohio funeral, responded to the whispered enquiry, "how the departed looked,'' in a tone of voice which might have been heard miles in a northeaster, "firs' rata; lirs' rate; I never seed John looking better in his life.,' The keys of A. T. Stewart's great establishment are said to guard a stock worth three million dollars, and tha gentleniin who attends to the door has held that position for twelve years. Miss Louisa Stratton, of Cass county, coun-ty, Indiana, challenges any man ia tlie state to a plowing match with her. Sho proposes a tvo-norse team, each eomcoutor to drive the horses and hold the plow. An editor, describing a steamboat, said, "She had twelve berths in the ladies' cabin." "How horriole !" exclaimed ex-claimed an old maid, on reading tois j heutunce. "What a snuallin there mast have been !'' In dull times a ehrewd business man advertises to get rid of his stock iu good times he adortises to notify the publij where to hud tha best assortment; as-sortment; consequently he advertises ut all tim-s iind finds that it pays. ' To st p advertising is equivalent to saying ''I have stopped buieiuesa, aud mi uo more lavoroofthe people." |