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Show IKL1JGS. The Pope is said to be an excellent billiard player. Baron Yon Benst, the Austrian I're-mier, I're-mier, smokes forty cigars a day. The ice in Virginia is said to be the best and thickest ever gathered in that ' State. k A Colorado editor avenges himself on a rival by" publishing his marriage under the head of "Crimes and CaMi-alties." CaMi-alties." The Millerites of Massachusetts, undeterred un-deterred by previous failures, have fixed upon Feb. 11 as the day of the final judgment. The phonetic system is not so very new. When Daniel Boone moved to Missouri he wrote back that he had pitched his habitation on a "purrary." The Supreme Court of Iowa has decided de-cided that if a juryman drinks intoxi eating liquors during a trial the verdict may be set aside and a new trial ordered. or-dered. A remedy for children's crying is proposed. It is to dash a cupful of water into the infant's face, and the inventor asserts that a few repetitions of the dose will suffice. There are 3,UU0 acres of oyster beds in Chesapeake Bay, yielding annualiy :2a, 000,000 bushels of oysters. In Baltimore, upward of $10,UO0,0uu arc employed in the business of canning oysters. Alderman Brookfield astounded the Cincinnati Common Council the other night by telling them thnt "hell itself might be raked from stem to stern with a fine-tooth comb, and no such , body as the Cincinnati police be found.'' In the present House ol'llcprcsoiua-tives ol'llcprcsoiua-tives there have been thirty cases of contested seats, and in salaries and expenses ex-penses there has been paid to the unsuccessful un-successful contestants the sum of $100,0UU. In addition to this as much more has been paid for printing the testimony given in the contested cases. The cold weather which has pic-vailed pic-vailed at the south this wiuter is something some-thing quite out of the usual order of things. It hardly appears credible,, but an account comes from Fcrnandina, Fia., of a man being frozen to death near that place one night last month, and of two others being badly frostbitten frost-bitten on the same occasion. Edwin Forrest recently acted in Chattanooga, and an envious Knuxville paper insists that when he appeared on the stage, and many of the audience audi-ence saw that he up'iu whom they looked was lint the cavalry leader, j Gen. N. 1!. Forrest, tlie only great man of that name of whom they hall ever heard, llicy jumped to tlieir (Vet I and declared tliey had been s,,,. , . A Georgia editor is in luck. Twenty-four Twenty-four heathen Chinese walked in'o bis sanctum the other day, and. through the medium of an interpreter, paid ea-h down fur twenty-four subscriptions to his paper. The editor wondered greatly great-ly what they wanted of an Knglirb paper not licitig able to read it, and was informed that they took it Ibr the "pictures" in it, the paper having a catarrh cut, a guano trade mark, and an umbrella "picture." I |