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Show lKLl;s. Thiers wears a ?haUjy oveicoat. There are 1 ,7 h new.-Uys in L:n- doD. London has another eomic i-ajvr called Giptniu Cuttie s J'-A- Loh. Eastern belles are cultivating sub tantiaj waUts.something that is wortli siucezing. A hotel at Cresco, Iowa, advertL-cs, "No brown sugar used nor dead-beats wanted." As a set oft' to the woman's rights movement, Boston milliners are employing em-ploying male seamstresses. Tar and feathers is the prevailing epidemic in Indiana. Country merchants mer-chants keep it ready mixed, for sudden sud-den call. A man at Fontanelle, Illinois, has hired a tiddler for bix months, at per mouth, to play daily for hii amusement. amuse-ment. Mr. Juniper says he doesn't like to commit himself to a "picked up dinner," din-ner," unless ho knows where it was picked up from. The Alabama papers mako mention of the fact that negrous tried in that State nearly all object to being tried by jurors of their own race "What," said a lady, "do you think of Platonic love ?" "Madame," replied the gentleman, it is like all other tonics very excit-1 ing." 1 Professor Mortou, of Vale College, thinks tho stream of November meteors me-teors has got out of the way of the earth's orbit, and will not return until about the year 1900. A Covington (Ky.) girl laughed until un-til she dislocated her jaw, and they can't locate it again. Why don't she laugh out of the other corner of her mouth, and it will como back again all right. Consultation free. It is five 3cars since nitro-glyccriue came into use. The one thousand seven hundred persons whom it has killed or maimed for life, and the millions mil-lions of property which it has destroyed, de-stroyed, may be styled recommendations recommenda-tions of its cflioieuoy. Chicago is in mourning because Cincinnati Cin-cinnati has fifty-seven ;divorce caes on tho docket, while poor Chi-' cago has only forty. But Chicago has been at it so long she will have todi-i vorce some couples a second time to: keep ahead of Cincinnati. j The Will o' the Wisp, aD English! paper, satirical and conservative, .has this picture of Europe : Russia coverts, Turkey fears; Austria ponders, Italia cheers. Belgium Holland, WniL in dread; Denmark's palsied, Spain is dead. Franco is bleeding, Prussia sores: i Britania shuts nor eyes j And snores.' I ' |