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Show IKLIGS. Lucy Stone has quit lecturing to attend at-tend to a little equalling Stone. A Turkish porter will trot along it 3 rapid pace, carry iog a weight ot sis hundred pounds. Why is Mrs. Woodhull like one oi' Bret llarte'a heroes? Because she's Ten ute C. a pardner. A Frenchman of Allentowo, Pa., cut his throat the other day, because he could not get his boots oo. A young lady hxs been found who, instead ol' having a pupil in her eye, has a handsome young schoolmaster. In America, one person in every twenty-five hundred is blind; in Ka-rope, Ka-rope, one in every thirteen hundred. A Green Bay man was mean enough to elope with the only school teacher in the town, thui shutting up the school. Fanny Fern and her husband, Mr. James Partoo, preside over a happy domesticity, the gossips to the contrary con-trary notwithstanding. Women, under the name ol "assistant "assist-ant pastors," do missionary work for several of the St. Louis churches, and receive compensation therefor. Massachusetts is the only State where niou are in the minority. Some thiuk on that account it is a fair field to try the woman-suffrage movement. move-ment. Two children of Mrs. Maulake, ol Detroit, It-ft alone by their mother, (bund a pair of scissors and six $10 greenbacks iu a bureau drawer, and hud great amusement for an hour, The Chicago Ore is not all quenched yet. The other day some workmen were surprised by the bursting out of a llamc after I hoy had gone down several feet through a mans of frozen brick and water. Chinese editors suffer the death penalty when they put any false intelligence intel-ligence in their papers. American editors generally have a "head put od them" if thoy get anything near to the truth in thcr editions. A broken-hearted Indianapolis widower, wid-ower, whose wife died only a few days ago, has erected a pine slab over her grove, and presented a fine piano to the girl who has been very kind to him duriog his great affliction. Alexander Heavy, a New York lawyer, law-yer, has been committed, in default of ? 10,000 bail, on a charge of forgery in obtaining the signature of a lady to a sheet of blank paper, and filling the page so as to obtain considerable property. prop-erty. "Would you be willing to undertake the management ol my business for your victuals and clothe.!"' said a wealthy merchant to a gentleman who was congratulating him on his vast property. "No," was the reply. "Well, that's all I get," said the millionaire. A story is told of a youthful member of the bar at St. Albans, who plunged into a glowing exordium in presenting his case, in which he declared that "when we look back upon the untrod paths of the future, we behold the footprints of an Almighty hand." Votes must have been cheap in Saratoga Sara-toga last town meeting. A Democrat gave a colored man a $5 bill, to be divided with four others, as compen sation for their votes. The holder ol the stakes refused to divide, and a suit is now pending to recover. When you see two young persons seated in the centre of a paw in church, you can make up your mind that they arc engaged, or going to b; but when odi is at one end and the other at the foot of the pew, you can immediately determine that they are married. |
