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Show A black' ostrich lias arrived in "Boston "Bos-ton J'rom Al'rica. Tliero i only unn voiunlcor tire coin-pany coin-pany in Kuiti. Mr. Miller, of Lii'ayotte, InJ, "bumbug'.' yawned and died. A I?"rencbtoan lias liiodo ft sewing machine that is driven by clock-work. The freshest name for Alexander H. Stephens is "a venerable calamity, i Tho Ncwca.4lo (Euglaod) policenien arc about striking for higher wages. Pop corn explodes ia the fields at Galveston on account of the extreme heat. Nashville is getting frightened by a report that a largo cave exists tinder 1 the eity-T-- , - r A Ma-sachuieti.s paper assorts ilial the codfish catch this year is unusually unusu-ally small. ( , There' was an' caillnjUake in I'ehi-warc I'ehi-warc and Now - Jersey on Monday morning. ' It is proposed lo erect a national monument in litudon to - (Jharles , Dickens. - , I Wendell Vhilliits - has - discovered that "the Republican Lion is dead. That is why be kicked it. A new style of ear-ring -is in the shape of u yacht with llags and sails Hying. . . Tlib careless drug elerk lias got around to Philadelphia and killed a man. Twenty bottles of whisky wove included in-cluded in tho stored of an Indiana Sunday school picnio. Cincinnati- was terribly excited by tho Chicago calamity. By noon ol Monday, Siifl.OUO had boon subscribed. 11 Amherst" Collego' will . Jioicaftcr withhold all aid from college students whoismoko tobacco or ardent spirits and got caught at it. . The Kcv.JPhurbc llanaford, ol New ITaven, lias refused to let Mrs. Hooker into, her church to preach woman fcufTrage, Colonel Downing, chief of the Cherokee Cher-okee Nation, has married Miss Ayrcs, a woahby and educated lady of Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. "Melancholy JMass-Mcetcrs Mournfully Mourn-fully Mingle" is an alliterative heading in the Philadelphia Post, which has it bud."': ' The extensive cultivation of tho castor bean in Kansas has caused the commonwealth to bo called ''Thi proud catharito State." Mrs. Amelia Bloomer lias raked up a letter from Horace Grcelcy,-writter in 1S;j3, in which he goes strong for woman's rights, and says the men have no business to interfere. , -: A German officer writes to the London Telegraph indignantly, denying Lord :, Shaftesbury's, .statement' that piety prevails in the Prussian army. : , Mr. Edmondson, of Missouri, got to owning somo horses that didn't belong to him, and the; next thing he knew be couldn't get his Icet down tc the ground. IIo strangled. ., ii- Tho Ku Klux trials in llaleigh, N. C, have revealed that the order if known among its members as "The Invisible Empire." The witnesses assert that there is DOthing iu the oath referring to politics. At last the pestiferous bouse flics are to meet tho late they deserve. Titusville, Pa., has invented a reliable sort- of (ly paper. This fly paper if covered with uitro -glycerine, glue and molasses., The Dies, attracted by the ruolassesj alight, and arc stuck fast by the glue. Should any get away, they proceed to rub their legs together in ecstasy, when the friction of their own shins causes the nitro-glycerine adhering adher-ing to their feet and limb3 to cxplodo, blowing them to atoms. A picture of life in Mexico: Two gentlemen of tho highest rank in society meet in the evening in a street in the capital. "What o'clock is it, scnor?" politoly asks tho first. The other stops, draws his revolver, and covers his interlocutor, thou takes out his watch and gives the desired information. Number ono thanks number two, without the least surprise sur-prise or remonstrance at the measure .of precaution. |