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Show 1 IXKLIGS. A Cliipiwa c-hiL't' who viited Clneaiio lately f-Mooiioe-'J the watln-r "big lut." '1'he ila-ton Ahtrh-r think the proper way to serve u diuiiur U to i.-j.t it. The Momi'hN Appeal touchingly allodes to"the short and simple annuls of the suieide." A Virginia whito man has eloped with a nere, and the "old man' is very indicant that his daughter should run away with white tra-h. There is a walnut tree in Addison, V"., five icet and ten inches in eircuin-1 eircuin-1 ference, one hundred and twenty feet ; high, and it ia sisly Jivt to the first limb. A LiWrenee (Miw. ) paper announeeii i that its price in future will be ten ;dollars a line for printing "Lines on i the death of Little Tommy," or any I other youth. A western paper sjieaLs of a man la.i comiog in eonlact with lightnins, but omiu to state whieh whipped, the .only feature of the item in which the j public arfl supposed to be interested. A clergyman of Taunton not a "free - blow' ' at a Culil'oruiu hotel. The ; landlord thought tho "first prayer in the house" was amplo compensation. That is a new idea of the "value of prayer." A llhodo lulaud paper has an article oa "mean thing in Massachusetts." General Butler was out of the State at the time, we presirue, as he is not mentioned on the Int. J.ouiavilU Courier Journal. A dor, says a morning paper,bit the I proprietor of a store in Huntington, Long Island, then fell down in a fit. .The dog only was shot. People who i carry poison about on their bones in 1 thia way ought to be taken care of. "IIuW hollow it sounds!" said a 1 patient under the movement cure, as the physician was vigorously pounding his chest. "Oh, that's nothing!" said the 'doctor, "wait till we get to the head." i The New York Express thinks the proper way to start a cholera panic is to "write and talk about it everyday," and hints that this is .just what the i American people are now somewhat unnecessarily doing. ! A writer in the Huston Ailcertiser argues that the Republicans should nominate none but "tried men" for i office. That rule may do for Boston, j but New Vork frequently finds its best j reason for "trying" men after they j have been in office. The Now York Herald describes the I "meanest railroad." It is the "llens-' "llens-' selaer and Saratoga. It ballasts its bed j with sand, it starts with a jerk and I stops with a jam, and hires the smallest j conduotor i. oan Bod, to save carrying (weight." i A fortune seeker at the Forest Hill (claim, California, abstractedly picked up a grimly lump interfering with his I operations, and easily glancing at it, found it to be a solid nugget of gold, ! which, when tested, weighed 321 i ounces, of which TOO are pure gold. "Rick" has been exploring New Jersey graveyards for "ielicitoua epitaphs, epi-taphs, " and furnishes the following speoimen from a cemetery in Cape May county : . AtAKT Jaxk, 1 Aged 11 yra., 8 nws. She was not smart, sho was not fair, But hearts witli grief for her are swellin'; All empty stands her little chair Sho oiod of eatin' watormelin. |