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Show INKLINGS. The man who was drowned wilh applause came out very dry. Players upon wind instrumeuta generally gen-erally have to face the music. Othello was not a lawyer, although he was a-tawny -general of Venice. j The way to command respect and I plenty of room in a crowd Carry a pot of paint in each hand. "Pat, how shall we stop suicides?" "Faith, Dennis, make them capital offences punishable with death." An apothecary lately sent in a bill to a lady, which runs thus : To curing your husband until he died. A Cincinnati servant girl recently stole two wapon loads of furniture while the family were at the theatre. An Indiana justice of the peaoe decided, de-cided, the other day, that a verbal contract requires a stamp. A love-lorn New Orleans youth blazed away at his head with a pistol. Being brainless he was not inucb injured. in-jured. What evidences is there that there was beer in the ark? The kangaroo was seen to eo in with hops, and bruin soon followed. The "Cesko Krejcooskypodporujici iSpolek, of Chicago,,' has tiled a certi-! certi-! licate of organization. It is a very ice organization. "I can marry any girl I please, "said a young fellow, boasting). "Very true," replied his waggish companion, "for you can't please any." A new legal work is now in the press which it is anticipated will meet with an immense sale. It is entitled "Smith on the Evasion of 13ebts." Susie Jennings, of Marshal county, Indiana, ox-whipped an insolent admirer ad-mirer last week. She to'd him to go, and as he didn't go she go-aded him. Callers in Iudianapolis, if they don't find the lady in, are invited to wait: "she's only stepped out to get a divorce, di-vorce, and will be back in a few moments." mo-ments." A negro insisted that his race was mentioned in the Bible. He said he heard the preacher read about how "Nigger Dennis wanted to be born again." Kansas city is excited because several sev-eral coffins, containing the remains of six or seven human bodies, were exhumed ex-humed while grading the streets, and the oldest inhabitants can't tell how j they came there. Two sisters, aged 18 and 21, named ! Ellen and Harriet Lay ton, drowned I themselves in the Hudson, near VTon-I VTon-I kers, because they could obtain no employment. Their suicide was delib-j delib-j erate and premeditated. , I William Edmondson, of Meredosia, i III., dunned Mr. Hackwith for seventy-five seventy-five cents, which Hackwith denied owing him. Thereupon Edmonson struck the man on the neck with brasE nuckles, snapping the spinal column, killing him instantly. "Do you keep matches?" asked a wag of a country grocer. "Oh, yes, all kinds," was the re-ply. re-ply. "Well," I'll take a trotting match," said the wag. The grocer immediately handed him a hox of pills. |