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Show 1IVKL1KGS. About 1,000 journalists. will attend the Boston Jubilee in a dead bead I capacity. 1 Minester Schonck's daughters are among the best dressed ladies in Lon-don. Lon-don. i It is rumored that Anna K. Dickinson Dickin-son has refused an offer of $10,000 to advocate Grant's re-election. Delmonico sells enough wine in six months to float a 1,000 ton frigate, loaded to tho gunwale. The Ashantees, amoDg the most intelligent of the Africans, are cannibals. canni-bals. Down in Alabama they are prediet- mg another war becauso a certam nen has been laying black eggs. 1 The last noveliy in sewing machines jis one that will follow (he thread of an argument. A person claiming to be a lineal descendant of John the Baptist, is spreading a gospel in tho streets of Cairo, Illinois. Tho San Dominican soldier gets his pay daily, one Bniall loaf of bread and live cents, with two suits of clothes a year. A Canadian Leander is goinji to make a hero of himself by undertaking to swim sis miles from the Buffalo lighthouse in Lake Erie. Mrs. Emery of Indiaua, warns all women against her fickle, faithless hus band, who has deserted her. tone says he may be rccogni'ed by a broken noe, whichsbe demolished by a skillet. A Spaniard has made a metrical translation of the Psalms, and has received re-ceived therefor an autograph letter from the Pope, blessiog him and his book. A resolution has been reported in the Massachusetts legislature providing for statues, in marble or bronze, ol JohnWinthrop and Samuel Adams, to be placed in the National Gallery, atWashington, and appropriating $30,-000 $30,-000 therefor. . A paper gives the following directions direc-tions tor using its new patent ben pills: "From one to ten boxes of pills is a dose for young fowls. The best way to give the remedy is to tickle the chicken under the wings until it laughs, when the medicine can be shot down its throat with a musket or horse pistol." A Newfoundland dog, in Salem, Massachusetts, who saw the team ol his master start to run, sprang into the wagon, seized the reins in his teeth, aDa in a short distance brought the horses to a stop. Then the dog jump- ed out, and, standing by the hor se's head, barked until the driver came, when he resumed his nap on the sidewalk. side-walk. jod A proud beggar in the environs of Madrid implored alms. "Aro you not ashamed?" said a ii passenger to him, "to carry on such an infamous trade when you can work?" "Sir," replied the beggar, UI asked for money, and not advice," turning his baok with true Castilian "dignity." LMrs. Partington entered the office of the probate judge, called civilian, and inquired in her blandest tone; "Are you the civil villain?" "Do you wish to insult me, madam?" asked the judge. "Yes." replied the amiable old lady, "my brother died detested, and left three infidel obildren. and I'm to be their executioner; so I want to insult the oivil villain about it." |