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Show ' INKLING. ! "Darliu.L', it'b bedtime. All the I "'liickena have pone to bed." "Yes, uiaiunia, and so has the old hen." i The L'nitu CnttnUca now appears with a black border, and promises not to go out of mourning till the Pope has his own again. "How long do you wear a shirt''" severely asked an inspecting officer of a soldier. "Twenty-eight inches, sir," was the respectful reply. The first day a little boy went to school, the teacher asked bim if he could spell. "Wr-ll, bow do you spell boy '!" "0, just as other folks do. ' A man's lite was lately saved in Norwich, Conn., by tho interior qual ity of a deadly poison, put up by a blundering clerk instead of the medicine medi-cine ordered. One Parisian to another : "My wife is half dead at the idea of a siege." "Courage, my friend," was the reply ; "in this world one is never completely happy." 'J be Channel Islands are just now crowded with wealthy French families. Jersey and Guernsey are remarkable for cheapness of living and salubrity of climate. There is an old lady in St. Joseph, JIo., who has kept house over twenty years, and who has had only one paper of pins in that time, and yet has a part of the paper left. The managing editor of the Louisville Louis-ville Courier Jua mid is nearly blind, and is said to be one of the best amateur ama-teur pianists in the country, rendering the music of Schumann and Chopin with great fidelity. A woman hau been engaged at Nashua, N. If., for some time past in selling several hundred dollars' worth of molasses and water as a valuable chemical mixture for the removal of warts, pimples, corns and moles. A man who had filed a petition for diYoroe was informed by his counsel that bis wife had filed a "cross petition," peti-tion," as lawyers call it. "A cross petition pe-tition !" exclaimed the husband. "That's just like her ; she never did a good-natured thing in her life 1" A clergyman, reading a chapter of the Bible for his congregation, ibund himself at the bottom of the page with the words, "And the Lord gave Noah a wile;" then, turning over two pages instead of one, he continued, "and he pitched her within and without with pitch." A Kansas lady, on retiring to her room one night, found it filled with martins, which had flown in during her absence. Instead of heartlessly turning them out in the cold, the kind-hearted lady captured all the little creatures and bad them served up the next day in a pot-pie. Professor A. M. Kcnzic, of the Michigan Agricultural college, says that one hundred and seventy days have passed in this season without fro.-t sufficient to make its effect visible upon vegetation ; and that, according to the records kept by the Academy of Science at New Haven, it is one hundred and eighty years since this has occurred before. |