OCR Text |
Show IKL1.GK. A LIoniOQ Mrfo au&oano. "fia.-.b I bake peDut." Huwca's prcaeat wiJe is Uccribcd as "cxiui;uely attractive.'' i Tbo Central railroad of luwa tdver-, tdver-, tiies i'ur "train b-jy bids." : Twilve Swiss guides hare lost their livci on tho Alps thb year. I A Cobfedttratti colonel adoiua a teat in the luwa houe ot rcpresenunives-Au rcpresenunives-Au towa girl has contracted to cut ; and clear acre of timber land tlii" ' winter. i "A free luuch ticrid' i- th.- usim a i Western editor ircs his political oj-! oj-! poueut. "That mugiiiiiotiiit, eivauiy sco, ol melody" u what an Ohio critic calls !i Parepo. 1 A Miull pIce in an Indiana paper is daily devoted tj "WL-dom and Truth. I Courici'tieiit n-.-d tu be spelled i "Quoiaauglitieot"' in Indian, and i meant "lon river." An Indianapolis yourijj man who is j itudyint; for the ininistry, attempted j to brain his mother with a hatchet the : other d.ty. Mr. Archer of Indiana, struck at ! hw dog with the butt of his gun. The i forgiving beat now howls above bis I master's grave. tiostun l f. J "liig flea,-, have lililo iioas, I And these have less, to bite 'em, These tlcas have smaller And so, ud infinitum!'' "Never mind tho obituary, judge," (Said a Montana culprit when the court became palhelic in pronouncing the sentence. "Ii's Bx ihe time for the funeral." Great numbers of buffaloes, rendered tame by the terrible weather of the last two weeks, sought shelter in the lee of the Pacific railway trains blocked upon the prairie. There is a eat io Daviess county, Indiana, In-diana, which has tbe ohilla and lever as regular as any of the family. And yet the people over there think that Darwin is a lool ! Clams, alive and healthy, have been dug out of (be prairie one or two miles from Houston, Texas. They were found at a depth of several feet, and the Houston people wonder how they got there. A man from San Francbco who had not heard of the Chicago fire, arrived ar-rived there last week. After looking at the ruins he turned to a stranger and asked: "How long did the earthquake earth-quake last, old sport?" An Indianaess, discovering that her marriage ceremony had been illegally ; performed, fourteen years ago, has commenced a suit against her husband for services rendered him as au employe em-ploye during that period. It i3 tho ambition of every true Philadelphian to live long enough to be mentioned in the Philadelphia Ledger ns "one of the nine persons who died in Philadelphia last week at the advanced age of eighty." Nearly one hundred chickens were used in makiDg a pie for a fair at Bridgeport, (Jonu., a few davs since. It was the biggest chicken pic ever ' built and baked in the Nutmeg State, and required four men to carve it. |