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Show I-"..!. i- ..'in.' ! r- u- ,n .-! 10 iM' J ill t I' --L M h.'lll tl.-' -II- l'Is of A !'' -:iu- I' lii it.- ; ...A w,. i,iy-, L-j i:i!l'-rt"'i:t :-:- a Chino' h.iti'l iliniifr. i TLl' Louisville ( '.;iu r J-.tt, ual aA why Ijuure Francis Train talks ul -(.1'iiJiog tuur days in Mua.-liinj Prus-j -ia, when he can lnre tier 1 1 iL-aih in hall' that time. A Kentucky uiau uuitcs lhc avo 'a I tiun.s of blacksmith and barU'r. In inomeni5yf ab.it met ion lie u.m?s a man' laee a an anvil and the razor as a hammer. This treatment wears out the anvil rapidly. Chritian-buri:, Va., ha.-, a venemUc turkey Kibbler who has built himself a nel, and is now gravely Miting upon lour apples. h is preMiuied that his action U intended a a grave satire i ti toii llie woman's ri-lils bii-ine-s. A'' w i'ork S"ii. A picture, of "A tier the War," now-popular now-popular in Paris, represents a gentleman gentle-man carry in j; a t-ack of money in one , hand and a can of petroleum in (lie oilier, lie lias secured his own fortune, and is j;oit)i; to destroy his ueilibor's. Sr. WiniicJ StuM.-s an elderly maiden lady of Jondon. was directed by the health olliecrs to discharge from further service lour doys who lived with ler as eouiauioiis, ami sue was hit lorrow-strieken at the sacrifice that she lied instantly on receivinir the order. Western p.ii" 's state (hat it is a ashional'le and friendly tiling in Jhieao Ui tell a hlu-hini; bride who 1 tas been married by lr. (.'heuey that I .ou have heard that the best leiral luthorily says that anianiat;c by him s illegal, and that you think it is ju-.i i put-up job of her husband's. The grand jury of Sonoma, Uala., ' recommend in a recent report that, ''for the safety arid comfort of bald -lieaded men, the loose plastering he removed from the ceilint,', or that the sheriff be instructed to furnish parties having business in the court with pillows or suitable shields to cover their heads with." According to a late writer, sunstroke is due to the action of liuHt on t he brain, exerted through the eye, and ; not, as generally believed, to :tn elevation eleva-tion of temp era in re; and it is asserted that if the eye he properly shaded from the glare of the sun, any unusual precaution iu the way of protecting (he iiead and the back of the neck may be dispensed with. It is a fact not generally known that all the gold sent east from San Francisco Fran-cisco now comes through the mail bugs. It is put up in small boxes, weighing two or three pounds, and tach bos is sent as a registered letter. In this way the cost of transportation is about one per cent., while the express companies charge live. One hundred thousand dollars thus passes daily through the Omaha post office. There is a story current in New England ol a thrifty magistrate who once summoned a delinquent debtor into his own court; there swore himself aud testified himself to the validity and reasonableness of his old claim, overruled exceptions, picas for stay, claims of appeal, etc., gave judgment, issued execution, and was, in his own enterprising person, creditor, suitor, judge, witness, jury and sheriff all at once. |