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Show UiMi;Lit of coolaess tiip of Mount Va.Liiogtoii. The new style of dres-iug the hair is a In N iliisoD. Tliere are 2,000 Methodists in L'VaDce. It is proposed at some of the club? in New York city to admit ludy members. mem-bers. Locomotives are not allowed to whistle within the city limits of Indianapolis. Indi-anapolis. Ad. anti-tlirtation society lias hcen instituted at the Kort Wayne conservatory conserva-tory of music. The cry of the English workmen is "no more debt for war purposes," and they mean it, too. The last token of Mario Antoinctfe xns ilie sexton's record. "Paid seven francs lor Widow Capet's coffin." A lady of Rochester, Minn., has obtained ob-tained a patent for a fan, to be attached at-tached to a sewing maehine and operated oper-ated by the same power. j Miss Virginia Yaughan, in her lecture lec-ture on "The Poetry of the Future," announces thai "I he grand epic of the coming poet will throb with the pulses of the cosmos." The dog crop of the Union id estimated esti-mated at UI.UOO.OOO. Of that number num-ber upwards of 100,000 go mad annually, annu-ally, and bite about 10,000 people. Interesting item, this ! A man inquired of workmen on the new post offioe building in Boston, the other day, when they expected it would be finished, as he bad a letter ho desired de-sired to deposit. A wedding took place at La Cross a day or two ago, at which, according to tho Democrat, "the bride was given away by tho city, and the city was mifihty glad to get rid of her." Some one wishing to bo witty on a gentleman with a largo mouth, asked him "if he had a loDg lease of that mouth of bis," when he as good hu-morcdly hu-morcdly answered: "No, I have it only from year to year," Progressive teacher to a pupil of the period : Sary Jane lloookcr, just take that chewing gum right out of your mouth. Little girls who chew gum in school need never expect to become President of tho United Stales, John B. Gough fell asleep while going go-ing from Boston to Lowell, a few evenings even-ings ago, and rode past his destination to Tyngsboro. It cost him $20 to gel back in time to li 11 bis engagement tc lecture on "Will It Pay?" An "eminent KnirilnnlUt." wrifm that the means by which tables aro caused to make noises aro what he calls "Psychics." Is this a misprint for "Sly kicks?" If so, the "eminent "emi-nent Spiritualist" and Mr J'michuTQ agreed. A lady writer says if women were as particular in choosing a virtuous husband hus-band as men are in selecting a virtuous wife, a moral reformation would soon begin, which would be something more than froth and foam. True, to a dot. The wag of the Cleveland Leader says: "Fashionable 'sports' who intend to put in a few weeks at Kelley's Island, Little Mountain and other summer resorts, should commence dodging their washerwomen now. A few shillings a week saved early in the season will purchase many a mint-julep and other necessaries of life, when the heated term arrives." : : |