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Show A Scotch terrier, advertised in Indi-ma, Indi-ma, is "i wag-tail and i tiht." The DaveDport Breibers did wrue mysterious roj'irjtf in 1'itlehurgh last ffcok. Rook Islaod is bursting her water maiai;, and ma'-iiog a good deal of a muss. Devlin, of Philadelphia, is uoder ar rest for firio his own store. Devilin' usaaily euds ia burDiDg. At Jaocsviile, V is. , the citizens gave ohase to a mad do, but tirst encased en-cased their legs with stove-pipo. An eastern clergyman who graduated gradu-ated as a reporter, instead of "Let us pray," says, '"Let ua iotcrview the throne of grpc." A Kansas City paper has tho following fol-lowing adpertiscment: Wanted A liberal lib-eral salary will bo paid for a young babe. Address, boa 1,067. A Philadelphia murderer has got something better than the insanity dodge; he claims to have been in a fit when ho cut the man's throat. The enormous reward of $25 h offered offer-ed in Tennessee for the capture of a noted desperado. The desperado has not yet made his figures public. The inhabitants of Columbiacounly, Georgia, are chasing an escaped tiger from a menagerie. The beast has already al-ready consumed five Cashmere geatp. Lieat.-Col. Fred Grant devotes about three hours daily to his arduous military duties. The remaining twenty-one hours he devotes to Bleep and other congenial recreation. An innocent young man in Dos Moines was aaked by the Rev. Mr. Hammond, revivalist, if he waB laboring labor-ing for the good of his sou1. "No," was tho reply, "I work for Billy Moore." A Platte county (Kan.) man, residing resid-ing in Texas, is envied by his old neighbors neigh-bors because he . resides twenty-live miles from a church, and amuses himself him-self on Sundays by Blayiog bears and alligators. "Who built the water works at Jerusalem?" Je-rusalem?" was tho subject cowsidcrnd at a Fit oh burg Sunday school on a recent Sabbath; and somebody proposed propos-ed for tho next week: "What salary did thoy pay the oommiflioners?" The Danbury Ncwb says; There was a fight between Norwalk and Danbury roosters in this piaco on Friday, The pain every good citizen must feel over such a display is somewhat mollified by the fact that our rooster licked. Grant's Southdown mutton, imported import-ed especially from England for the Presidential table, is making him Tory fat. At his present rate of increase, four years more at tho White House will give tho President quite Filstaff-ian Filstaff-ian proportions. A gentleman, in search of a man to do some work, met on his way a lady, not so young as she onoe was, and asked her: "Can you tell mo where I can find a man?" "No, I cannot," she replied, "for I have been looking thoso twenty years for one myself." This touching tributo to tho lato Mr. Grafton, of Griffin, Ga., is from the Register, of that place: "Ho was a fine man in all respuote; ho was owing us seven dollars on that last game of Beven up; but wo will throw that in towards his head stone." The temperanoo cause in Kentucky has been somewhat set back by the announcement that ono of the few water drinkers in that State has just discovered at tho bottom of .hie well the body of a neighbor who disappeared disap-peared four years ago; and the majority major-ity of the people have resolved to stick to whi-kcy and lrt well alone. |