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Show IjVKLIjVGS. Livingstone, tho African explorer, has boen gone six years. Lucca was applauded for ten oon-secutive oon-secutive minutes at tit. Petersburg. It has been computed that London will contain 0,000,000 inhabitants in 19,009. A rattlesnake was hauled to market in a load of cabbage, at Dubuqe, a few iiys ago. A Miss Wilson has been admitted as a deacon in an Episcopal church in Brooklyn. The first locomotive used in Kog-laod Kog-laod now stands on a pedestal at Darlington Dar-lington station. An Ohio Sunday school boy gave it as bis opinion that the bible was written writ-ten by Bon PiatL Thurmau is said to be as good a classical scholar as Sunnier. This will be denied at tho "hub." A Wisconsin four-year-old threatened threat-ened to commit suicide if his mother wouldn't take him to walk. Tho question of tunneling the Ni-agra Ni-agra river near Buffalo, which was agitated agi-tated some years since, is revived. Bishop McQuade, of Rochester, N. Y., forbids the presenco of more than twelve carriages at a funeral. The New York legislature has, by a formal enactment, abolished the popcorn pop-corn pirates who infest railroad cars. Why is i he tolling of a bell like the praying ol a hypocrite ? Because it is a bolemn sound by a thoughtless tongue. By and by the Chinese so they Eay will ask for consequential damages dam-ages for every artesian well we bore. The North Carolina farmers complain com-plain of the scarcity of water and tho utter unrcliabilily of such as can be obtained. ob-tained. An Indiana mau has caused the arrest ar-rest of his grandmother, who attacked him in a most cowardly and outrageous manner. Professor W. L. Mitchell, of tho Georgia State law school, has just begun be-gun the study of Hebrew. He is seventy sev-enty years old. Lazy California bartenders place the ingredients of a cobbler into a tumbler, and then wait for an earthquake to mis them up. Puzzled schoolboy to his teacher : "But, sir, if wanst naught bo nothing, then twice naught must be something ; ' for its double what wanst naught is." A western editor asks the following questions: "If a fellow has nothing when he gets married, and the girl has nothing, is her things hizen, or his things hern ?' ' A miss in western New York asserts that when gentlemen eat warm maple sugar it gets into their mustaches and makes them scratchy. Her father is curious to know how she found it out. An unknown man broke through tbe ice at Bay city, Michigan, several days ago, and his dog has sat watching watch-ing the hole in the ice ever since. He can neither be coaxed nor driven away. Mr. Lincoln used to tell a story of a boy who was ordered by his fathor to scare a stray urchin off the pemises. he departed on his mission with a ''turkey gobbler" strut, and shortly returned re-turned with a discolored optic, bleeding bleed-ing nose, and very muoh demoralized, and told his father the "darn'd boy didn't scare worth a cent."' |