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Show INKLINGS. A un;!'jn-iiatch at Soyiuour, Indiana, -covers 1,TW acres of ground. I A Kansas man h in jail for letting a jnighbor'3 mule follow him. j A man on trial for murder, iu Ala-j bima, went to sleep in the court-room. "HLi forehead extended to the H ilobe end of his iKvk" means he was J j beheaded. I The CritUh Admiralty do not in- tend to eoustruet any more large ar- ;mor-phited ship.s at present. i When annoying serenading parties go around in Nevada, the tire department depart-ment ia called out "to irrigate them." A man at Mount Yeinou, Illinois,, not married, speut the iirt nijdit oi'j the honeymoon in the woods, aud ran ! . away the nest day. ' For a lloor with live J'tont windows, : together with au actio, ?l,u50 in gold i was paid as rent during the late peace pageant at Berlin. j ' A New Orleans woman has supplied I i the world with a novelty in the matter of suicide, by trying to kill herself by istulhng rags down her throat. 1 Mr. E. C. Femiiuiore has sold from : I ninety acres of land, within the last ten i years, near Wilmington, Delaware, i peaches to tho valuo of $150,811. . ! A couple, who.se united ages count i 157, arrived at Detroit. They were married six weeks ago, and took Circe-,ey's Circe-,ey's advice, "movo out west and grow up with the country." A Connecticut farmer hpriuklus his currant bushes with whisky ; the worms get drunk, drop off, and either break their necks or cripple themselves so that life is a burden. A New York hair-drcsser has on sale a double braid of pure gray hair, twenty-eight inches in length and about the thickness of one's wrist, on which he places the modest price of tf.l,O0O, and expects to got it, too. A man in Los Angeles, who had been in pertcctly good health, suddenly sudden-ly lost the power of speech, without apparent cause. As he can neither read nor writo, he is unable to give his own views in regard to what led to his sudden dumbness. Au ambitious 'ermouter thinks that the voters of Rutland are tbe most uncertain people extant. He ran on the rum ticket at the town meeting and on the temperance ticket at the village election, but somehow or othor got beaten both times. A young lady thought it would be interesting to faint at an evening party j recently, when one of the company1 begun bathing her head with vinegar, upon which she started up aud exclaimed, ex-claimed, "For goodness sake put nothing on that will spoil my hair !" An Iowa paper, speaking of the petrified headless and limbless body recently found in that State, advances the theory that it is the remains of King Nebuchaduczzar, who went on , all fours and ate grass until he wore his limbs oft', and like a good many other worthless quadrupeds, "eat his head off," too. Koopmauschap, the llunous importer of heathen Chinee, has been to Tuscaloosa. Tusca-loosa. Ala., to look after tho interests of about o50 Chinamen who were taken there to work on a railroad and ; have received no pay. lie found them living on blackberries and erawlish, and ; probably deemed the diet he alt by for i the Mougolion constitution, as he left them to continue the same regimen. I In Lancaster, Ohio, the people en-gaged en-gaged in the last celebration of our nation's 'independence were fortunate in the engagement of a colored chap- lain who graduated Jrom Oberliri Col-I Col-I lege, and was progressive in his ideas, as may be judged from the concluding i prayer which he vented on the occasion occa-sion of a mixed assemblage of patriotic patri-otic celebrants: "I pray the Lord I may live to see the day when the colored man may forget his prejudice so far as to he willing to receive all other races as his equals." |