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Show Booncr thinks there must be a heaven for very fait horses. A Florida pentlemsn in the father of I a child two pounds io weight. The Eohoohi at Albion (Michigan) have been closed on account of smallpox. small-pox. Bi;hop Ames will preside at all ol the Methodist coot ere uees in Iowa thi? year. A temperance lecturer, II. L. TJurl-1 but, :s in jail at WhitcaLoo, N. Y., for us.-ault while drunk. Albany is to have a day of thanksgiving thanks-giving immediately after the adjournment adjourn-ment of the legiaiaturc. Bo-tou boa-tsof a rn-'tai !c who ha never buen bribed, lie has beuu cou-lined cou-lined to his bed ever biice his appointment. appoint-ment. An Fvansviile (Indiana) negreaa fell twenty-livo feet, strikinir her head ap -linst a block of ice. The ice onlj was damaged. The rumor that Brick Pouieroy and Bi'n Butler are to run a hotel together this summer, at Newport, is without foundation. A horned toad from the swamps of Nevada went through tlie mail a dis tanco of three thousand miles to a merchant mer-chant of Wilmington, Yt., last week, having riddtn the whole distance, cn-euf-cd in a sardine box, from which he was taken, out in the best of health and spirits. A wedding has recently taken place in South Norwalk, JMas., which was brought about in a romantic manner. A young lady employed in trimming hats wrote her name and address on tho inside lining. A young Now Yorker bought the hat, and a wedding resulted. Tho moral is obvious. An aflectcd young lady, seated in a rocking-chair, reading the Bible, exclaimed, ex-claimed, "Mother, here is a grammatical grammati-cal error in the Biblo !" Her mother, lowering her spectacles, and approaching approach-ing the reader in a very scrutinizing attitude, said: "Kill it! kill it 1 It is the very thing that has been eating the leaves and the book-marks !" An Irishman officiating as chairman of a o'ub, was annoyed at tho tumult created by a set of unruly members, and astonished them by vocileratiogly, "Jiottemcn, jintlcmen, will yces come to order V If you only kapc silent you may make as much noise as you plaze." A Newcastle (England) paper mentions men-tions tbe death at 87, of Mrs. Minns, for many years Lady Byron's conBden-tial conBden-tial maid. She was, it is said, the only human being who could speak from personal knowledge- of the early married life of Lord Byron, and she always emphatically contradicted the stories which were so rife nearly two years ago respecting the poet. There is an undertaker in New York whose sign bears the inscription : "Every requisite for a funeral." John McBride Davidson, passing along with Billy Birch, went in and said he would take a corpse. "A corpse 1 I haven't any." Then take down your sign," said Mo ; "1 don't know anything more , requisite for a funeral than a corpse. I Good morning." |
