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Show John Foster is .vork on a biography biogra-phy of Dickens. ' Stout people don't like to be told that they aro an experiment to show how far the human skin will stretch without crackinsr. flow exoruciath: ' 'o witness the facial fa-cial gyrations of a i.:eity girl with both hands in a pan of dough aud a villa in-.ous in-.ous mosquitoe on her noso. . A western editor, in announcing the demise of his paper, says : ''The bril-. bril-. lianoy of our career has been equalled only by its brevity, and the lack of business management has only been excelled by the lack of business itself.'' A Scotch paper tolls the story of a farmer who, alter the burial of his wife, drove a hard bargain with the yiave-digger, who, bringing his hand down on the shovel exclaimed, "Down wi' anither shillin', or up she comes," A Connecticut man recently ate a hearty supper, smoked two cigars, . went to a confectioner's and swallowed three pints of ice cream, drank two glasses of ice water, ate an apple and two bananas, with two slices of pineapple pine-apple thrown in. Then he went home, ate half a pie, drank- a cup of tea, and just before retiring took two glasses of . lemonade with a good sized stick in them. lie still survives, but some of the papers have taken occasion to remark re-mark that a great many mysterious deaths are to be attributed to that style of living. A California paper says: "All who have attempted to swim in the waters . of LakeTahoe must have been startled at their strange lack of buoyancy. Good swimmers launch forth into the lake, with the utmost confidence in their - skill, and at once find themselves floundering, floun-dering, and only able to keep afloat by the most strenuous exertions. The bodies of persons drowned in the lake are never seen alter they have once sunk. " Of the five white persons drowned in the lake, not a single body has ever been recovered or ever seen. P:ne logs float in the lake but a very short time, then sink never again to arise. In places far down through the erystal fluid are to be seen resting upon the bottom great quantities of slabs, logs and lnmber." The following plan is said to have lately been pursued in order to hasten the decision of a refractory jury, who were locked up to consider their verdict ver-dict in England : It wa3 past supper time, and the court officials had no wish to pass the night in waiting upon their verdict. A large dish oV heef steaks, fried with onions, giving off a . body of aroma sufficient to fill the largest lar-gest hall in England, was brought into ; the passage close to the door of the unhappy jurymen's prison. The door was opened, the cover taken off the dish, the aroma of the steaks and onions floated in, and invaded and pre-Taded pre-Taded every square inch of the little room. Mere mortal Englishmen could - .not stand out long agaiust such au appetizing ap-petizing aroma. A second opening of the door and advancement of the di-h clinched the matter, and enabled the jury to find a unanimous verdict. |