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Show IrVKLIAOS. j Paris lias steam ommlmsfeH. j Nebrostans who neglect to vote ore 1 ridJeiiou a rail It is believed that general Butler does not relish Worcester sauce. Osceola county, Iowa, with 275,480 acres of land, contains not a single tree. Grace Greenwood calls a garden fenced in with cactus a prickly pear-ad pear-ad isc. Interior Indiana bus imported croquet, cro-quet, and they play the game sixteen hours daily. Philadelphia bis ouo hundred and sixty citizens who are worth fiom one to ten millions. Southern paloonists have formed a syndicate to put the price of drinks down to ten cents. Tho shrill whistle and ialtliu puddle pud-dle wheels of a steam yacht are vexing to the solitude of the Sea of G alilec. .John Verstegcn recently presented a bell to the church in Little Chute. . Wis., and the first time it rang it tolled for his funeral. St. Louis gamblers aro out with a circular setting forth the great losses to the city occasioned by the suppres-! suppres-! siou of gambling. j Three amateurs attempted burglary j in Greenfield, Ind., and wore cordially I welcomed with a little shot gun by the affable proprietor. In tho course of an lllinoia discus ! sion, a man ia said to have "had a S ravine built iu the back of his head i with a pop-bottle." I A VcrmonL paper speaks of a uiin-I uiin-I ister who has resigned his "pasturate." ! His last sermon might have had for its j text, "All flesh is grass!" j Down in Salem, Ala., it costs profane pro-fane negroes five dollars to "swear in a public place." White folks do noL appear to be subject to any penalty. Mr. Stephens, not content with slaying his imaginary foes io the ordinary ordi-nary way, lias begun to mot them down with nine column jokes. LoukvWc Journal, An eccentric clergyman lately said, in one of hia sermons, that, "about the commonest proof we liavo that a man is made of clay is the brick so often found in his hat." Josh Billings says, "Don't work before breakfast, If it is necessary to toil before breakfast, cat your break fa H first." .Now, if ho could fix it ao that we needen't work after breakfast! The blondes of tho fashionable avenues ave-nues are very sad since it lias been reported that brunettes aro the fancy of the Grand Duke Alexis. Some of them are beginning to look black about it already. In a case under' the Vermont liquor law, at Lyndon, Vermont, a witness caused an unpleasantness in the court room by testifying that he drank with two men one of the lawyers employed in the case and the justice who was hearing it. . . A gentleman iu addressing the boys in a New York grammar school, said : "Good boys will grow and be good men; bad boys will grow up and become be-come voucher thieves." There have been more eloquent sermons, but few more practical or suggestive. General Butler once said to a friend of his: "iTou have often heard people call rue a rascal, but you never heard anybody call mo a fool." That was before he over ran for ofHee against one of the all-pervading Washburnos. Louisville Courier-Journal. Courier-Journal. A woman called at the Philadelphia Morgue lately and asked to be allowed to lay the hand of a drowned man upon her goitered neck, remarking at the same time she knew of a person who, by the bands of a dead man, had been relieved of the complaint. Yet this is the nineteenth century. One of tho most humorous things connected with the small-pox excitement excite-ment in Lowell is told by the Courier, which received a letter from a man in New Hampshire, desiring his paper discontinued till the disease should abate. The Courier is afraid to telegraph tele-graph him for fear the boys will climb the telegraph poles and become infected. |