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Show A newly-arrived elepliant was killed by lightning in laris recently. Slichipaa hotel ruoners set around in velvet coats and diamond pins. Japan lias a collar store, and Coo- , stantmople has witnessed its first circus. cir-cus. "The little church around the cor- 1 ncr" is still raging in the Southern papers. j Richmond has a society of colored ladies called "Tho Daughters of tho , Golden Candlestick." With all hia agricultural prodilec- 1 tions, Horace Greeley seems to have no love lor the Murphy. Correspondent. Corres-pondent. In Colorado a bald person finds himself him-self alluded to as "a man with his head above timber lino." At a recent Indiana wedding, the bride and bridegroom and sixteen of the guests were deaf and dumb. The Russian army makes out to get along with 1,100 gonorals andaspnnk-ling andaspnnk-ling of grand dukes and field marshals. mar-shals. The Detroit Post is pained at learning learn-ing that "the camel playing a star engagement en-gagement with Warner's menagerie shuffled off his mortality at Ionia the other day." Bob-tailed Gulch, Nov., has seven dwelling-houses and thirty-seven saloons. sa-loons. They talk of tearing down some of Iho houses to make more room. Detroit Fret Press. Old Ben Wade has been to see the weird faces on tho window-panes of Ashtabula, but ho seems to know no more about them than he know about the wild bugs of San Domingo. Tbo next eclipse of the sun will occur on the 12th of December nexL As it is to be visible in the vicinity of Arabia, persons in Kentucky who intend to go and see it should begin to think of gettine ready for the trip. Conner-Journal. Tho New York superior court, on tho 20th iost., decided the suit of Daly, theatrical manager, against II. J. Paulding, bill-sticker, awarding the former $5,000 damages because Paulding Pauld-ing defaced his theatre bills. The ivory keys to a piano which have become yellow may be made white again by washing them with a sponge with diluted sulphurous acid or a solution so-lution of soda, and expose to the sun. Mark Twain actually, bona fide, no joke, took out a patent at Washington on tho 20th inst. for a new pattern of trouser suspenders. He avers that it was the atrocious "set" of Mr. Greo-ley's Greo-ley's nether integuments which sot his inventive faculties at work. "Mr. Speaker," said a member of the Jamaica legislature,' discussing a bill for the regulation of the timber trado, "I know these timber merchants mer-chants are most egregious rascalB I was in the timber line myself twelve years. ' ' It has been suggested that the taxpayers tax-payers of New York ought to form a vigilance committee to hang some of the robbers of the city treasury. Unless Un-less their plunder were first taken from their pockets, it would be difhoult to find n rope strong enough to hold them. Courier-Journal. Bishop Rosccrans, a brother of the gcnoral, had an exciting little engine ride near Ironton, O., recently. After proceeding a short distance, the wind seized his episcopal hat and the locomotive loco-motive was stopped for its rescue. Soou after, the engine jumped from the track and struck in an embankment, embank-ment, the bishop barely escaping with his life. A St. Louis paper is inflicting upon' its defenseless readers a number of two-column paragraphs about "Russia under the reign of the house of Hol-stein Hol-stein Gottorp." By the time the paragraphs par-agraphs are concluded, that St: Louis paper will find that about fourteen thousand of its subscribers have Gottorp Got-torp and dusted. At tho recent anniversary of the Oneida Baptist association, the Utica Herald says a visiting clergyman, old enough to be gray, but with raven locks and beard, offered several resolutions reso-lutions touching questions of reform. Dr. Patton of Tltica mud lie k-ito no objection to the adoption of the resolutions, reso-lutions, but he wished the ono on the use of tobacco might be followed by ono deprecating the use of hair dye. |