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Show "KLT'GS. CV'Ury is a great producer of dyspepsia. dyspep-sia. General Grant says ho only wants to be President one more term! Governor Reed, of Florida, is a dead-broke dead-broke and busted carpet-bagger. Henry Ward Beecher ia fifty-three years old aod nearly as good as new. Adelina Patii owns more diamonds .than any lady of the nobility of Ku-rope. Ku-rope. An Albany man recently left $10,000 to be used in translating the Bible into the Japanese language. The question is: Did John Davis, who fell 90 feet in a Pennsylvania coal mine, the other day, die before he struck the bottom? A Miss Badger, of Rochester, manages man-ages the entire business of a machine shop employing fifty hands and has done so for five years. A letter has just been received at the postofliee in Jacksonville, Illinois, from San Francisco, addressed to ex-iovcrnor ex-iovcrnor Joseph Duncan who died in 1SU. A Cleveland dry goods clerk, a poor orphan, desires to ougago board where the secret ol' how he pastes his liair down in scollops will he considered a sufficient equivalent. Father lirady, of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Urconpoint, New York, left behind him at his death, one-third of a million dollars, without a will. The young Japs at Washington are smitten with a desire to bocoiuo oarsmen, oars-men, and have purchased a boat and engaged Dennis Deary, the trainer oi the Potomac- club, to give (hem lessons. les-sons. , That rigidly righteous Massachusetts of tho most dangerous of the devil's inventions, ia languishing in jail at present, because, in a moment of abstraction, ab-straction, he put a name that wasn't his own, at the bottom of a check. A geological lecturer has made Rhode Island people laugh by declaring declar-ing that there are 100 square miles of anthracite coal in that State. People who walk across the State every day to and from work, say they have never noticed it. The toothpick factory in Canton, Me., furnishes more work than all othor businesa in town. Over 100 cords of poplar have been hauled for its use this season, and converted into toothpicks. Each of the machines used will, it is said, make 5,000 toothpicks in a minute. min-ute. Childish Candor "Patty," a lady called to a little girl who was in the parlor, "did you tell your mother that I was here?" "Ycs'm," answered Patty, demurely. "And what did she say?" "She said, 'Oh, my! that dreadful woman here again!" A Michigan gin-mill keeper has this evasive arrangement: l'ou put your ten cents on a spot marked "whisky," the apparatus revolves, and directly you see a glass of whisky standing before be-fore you, and you don' t know of course, who gave it to you, or how it came there, . |