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Show I?TKLr"GS. j A telegram reports the Pope us very ill from a severe attack of the pont, , threatening paralysis. A pumpkin, five fW't u circumference, circumfer-ence, was opened in Jacksonville, Fla., and green growing vines found inside. Lady I think you said your name was Mary? New Broom No mem, j not exact'y Mary, it's bairy, and you spell it with a hess instead of a hem. A Massachusetts boy told his mother on returning home the other day, that j George Washington's widow had been I in the school, begging money to help 1 repair his tomb. It is estimated that there are 900 or 1,000 rafts on the Susquehanna, be-! i tween Columbia and Witliatusport, al i 'of which are prevented from going I down by the shallowness of the river. 1 The Buhton Public Library annually I makes a eolicctiou of newspapers giv- j ;ing accounts of Decoration Day in all parts of the country. They arc . i bound together in a volume for preser-1 vation. j ' Suicide statistics anna that liiot e ; men kill themselves than women. Wo-1 ' men prefer drowning; men blow their i brains out. Mora single persons com-irnit com-irnit suicide than married ones, und j more divorced persons than widowed. A girl in Portland was leadiug tho i parable oi- the wise and foolish virgins, whon she suddenly paused. "Wr-lt, ; what did they forget?" asked the j teacher encouragingly. "They forgot j their kerosene,' responded tho Mis Five-year-old. A triple wedding, a lew dayb ainyo, i in the Catholic church of N'urtre Dame, at Worcester, Mass., was eu-livened eu-livened by the tapestry around the altar catching lire from a caudic, causing caus-ing great cseitcmcm aiiiong the people in attendance. v Tho Conuersville Unuiuna,) Times ; tells of an old mil-splitter in that . county who put a quietus upon a young man who chaifeu him about hi?1 bald head in these words: "Young1 man, when my head gets us soft as! ; yours, I can raise hair to sell." I A Dutchman once met an Irishman I I on a lonely highway. As they met I ieach smiled, thinking he knew the! ; other. Pat, on seeing his mistake, rc-i rc-i markcd,withfa look oi' disappointment: 1 "Faith, au I thought it vtas you, an' you thought it was me, an' iis n.iy-' n.iy-' thur of U9." ' "Yaw, dat is dhvu. 1 nm auuder' jman, and you is not yourself, and wo jpoth pees some other podics." A German fell from a window Sun-; Sun-; day night last in this city, a distance I of thirty-fivo feet, without receiving I serious injury. This event, however, : was less strange than the ease of a boy named Willie Wiuklemen, who one 'day last week fell from tho railroad i bridge over Barren river near this city, ,a distance of sixty feet and nine inches, and was so slightly hurt that he was able to walk part of the way home that : evening. Boiding Green Democrat. 1 A boarding bchool miss, newly installed in-stalled as the wifo of a farmer, was one I day called upon by a neighbor of the j profession, who, in the absence of her I husband, asked her for the loan of hisj plow for a short time. "I am sure !you would be accommodated," wan the reply, if Mr. Stone was at home I do ' not know where ho keeps his plow; but," she added, evidently zealous to serve, "there is the cart in the yard; couldn't you plow with that till Mr. Stono gets back?" |