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Show LNKXINGS. j A L'.'banon, Tenn. . man drinks iwo dozen bottles of ale daily. Four weighty Iudiaiiian-, averae'iug 345 pounds apiece, are to have a tuot-race. tuot-race. Tbe neatest thhiy uut is described by a coii temporary as "bonnets and chignons to match." There bi nothing like enterpri.se. An American tire iti-urance company hag opened a branch office in Paris. A hydropath h a very damp path, according to the iloston Post's improvised impro-vised dictionary of technical terms. ! Kiujflake, the hi-torlaii of the ' Crimean war. is said to be overjoyed! at the ill-.briuuis ol' bis old enemy, J Napoleon. I It id said that kerosene applied by. means of a nioiMeued cloth to stoves i will effectually keep thctn from rusting i during the buinmer. , j A cotemporaiy nocusog Vinnie Keain of being a "desitfniuy" young woman. Nonsanse ! There never was a more : artless young creature. A "palaoe-car" ia running ou one of the street railroads in Boston. It 'is drawn by four horse?, and ia very popular. Some author says that one ,of the , uses of advertising is to bring iu out. , That's true especially at the knees : and elbows. j At one of the .ummer hotels the ipuests are called to their meaU by the ; discharge of a piece of artillery. We wonder if the landlord considers ihi cannon uiil to appetite. J Thero are a sreat many wags at the I South. This class of humorists arc all ! honored with a huudle to their professional profes-sional titles down there the people 1 affectionately call them seala-wags. The Boston Transcript y Mime the return of the Fiji Islamler to cauui- 1 balistn, thinks that wrought iron missionaries are the only proper onea, j for that country. Some one, describing a bad dinner to which he had been invited, said that : "the meat was cold, the wine was hot and everything was sour but the vine- 'gar." Navigation and embroidery to tome extent are identical sciences. In order to , master either of them, it is necessary to study "the variation of the needle." The allowance of a West Point i cadet in the summer is twenty pairs of white trowsers a week, with live or ten extra pairs in his trunk to fall buck on in case of muddy weather. A man in Cieorgia has discovered i the way to catch moccasin snakes, lie i baits a fish-hook, and when the snake shows himself ou the surface of the water, he hits it on the back of the head with the bait, and tliu snake ; grabs the hook immediately. When jit is a "good day for snakes," they can be caught very rapidly. , A gentleman in Massachusetts ; called ou a shoo dealer a few days i since and purchased a pair of shoes for : his boy. The shoe dealer took the shoes lor the purpose of rasping off 1 the pegs inside, when the purchaser 'objected. "Because," said he, "if the i pega are cut off, the boy runs all over town, and the shoes will not la.-t him : three weeks." |