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Show ( WeJ-lini; U a lawyer who chiefly deals in divorces and luver partook of a WoiJiu:,'. The city debt of New i'ork, which five; years ao was !f-i'2sxWJ0, now amounts to nearly k0,iHti),0OU. Queen Klizabeth always displayed her worst temper in her best clothes he was dreadfully milled then. A youm; I'hilaJelphinn, threatened 'with a breach of promise suit, pay, "ue away; cnntiaeis made Sunday ain't leral." ! A tMi.souri paper says it always prints marriages and deaths together as an intimation that misfortunes i never come singly. J A very learned man In Georgia, , Professor in the State University, pre-! pre-! diets much rain this year. lie -says fifteen iuelies are ''due." i The Ohio Farmer Fays you can start a balky horse by filling his mouth with dirt, the philosophy being that it r gives him something to think of. 1 Mark Twain said that the first time I lie was at .Niagara die hack fares were so much higher than the Falls that the : Falls appeared ir significant, '. A Chicago man being asked on oath if lie was married or single, said be was at breakfast time, but oouldn't vouch for himself at that time of day. A girl in Clinton, Missouri, who had danced with hor corset pulled up to the last hole, was aoon after in a hearse that pulled up to Lhe last hole I in the grave. I "I hope this hand is not counterfeit," counter-feit," said a lover as he was toying with ! liis sweetheart's finger. i "The best way to find out is to ring it," was the neat reply. One hundred and twenty-seven mothers of Worcester, Mass., and all the physicians of that city, have petitioned peti-tioned that tho afternoon session of the lowest grade of the schools may be shortened. Sensible. The CJdcarjo Tribune has an editorial edito-rial on "Chicago as a Holy City." It is needless to say its only claim to holiness holi-ness consists in the fact that many holy strangers are sojourning temporarily tempor-arily in the place. j "I say, friend, your horse ia a little contrary, is he not?" "No, tir," "What makes him stop, then?" "Oh, he's afraid somebody '11 say 'Whoa,' and lie shan't hear ir." A Western editor, who doesn't know much farming anyway, suggests that for garden-making, a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it, would be an improvement improve-ment on the spinal column now in use. Boston Post A Pcekskill paper speaks of a departed de-parted citizen who was "struck down by the hand of Providence, nnd not permitted to finish the French roof lie had commenced on his house." |