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Show Play-bills were first printed in I o03. Self made men are very apt to worship their maker. Truth sometime tastes like medicine; ljut that its because you are sick. i Wben is a small baby like a big banker'.' When its a wroth-child. He who takes the best care of today to-day his the lea.it foar of to-morrow. Baeheloric exclamation. "A las!" Maidenly exclamation "Ah men!" Id A. I). 1-2,871 the Falls of Niagara will be worn away so Agas-siz Agas-siz says. William Gordinio, in 1020, was the tirst person on whom the title of doctor was bestowed. It is as imposibIe to pet money out ofa miser as to cut mutton-chops out of a battering ram. Dean Swift said: "It is usless to attempt to urge a man to abandon a thing he was never reasoned into. There were three hundred and five murders in New York last year, aod only one man hanged for them. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is still happier who can fuit his temper to his circumstances. cir-cumstances. What is the difference between a fool and a looking-glast-? One speaks witnout reflecting, and the other reflects without speaking. What a record of human folly, superstition super-stition and ignorance a paper would be, that could contain the contributions contribu-tions sent to its editor! The Spirit of the Times speaks ol the name of Mrs. L. L. L. Adams, who is now lecturing in San Francisco on the Holy land, as an "L" ofa name. A lady said to her sister, "I wonder, my dear that you never made a match; I think you want the brimstone." To which she replied, "No, not the brim-stone,only brim-stone,only tho spark.'' An Albany restaurateur, his guests having ordered oyster stews for sis, seasoned the bivalves with arsenic by mistake 'Tho next order was undertakers under-takers for four, and doctors for all. Reynolds, tho dramatist, observing to Martin the thinness of the house at his own plays asked if he supposed it was owing to the war. "No, replied tho other, "it was owing to thejjiVce." A Lafayette physician, who thinks it contrary to tho "codo o ethics" to advertise his business, carries an umbrella um-brella with his name and the locality of his offioe painted in large white letters extending around the whole circumference circum-ference A western man makes a sort ol hollow cone of stiff paper, sticks it in the ground loosely, smears the inside with gummy oil or oil and resin; and puts corn in the bottom. The orowd puts their heads in for the corn, and find themselves "capped." The price of the duke of Ripalda'f "Raphael," now exhibited in the National Gallery of London, but latelj in the Louvre, has been reduced from $200,000 to $155,000, and the London papers think this prico too high, as tht picture has been severely rubbed and unfortunately impaired in many parts. Nevertheless, it has qualities of inestimable ines-timable beauty. |