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Show iKLIZVGS. To keep potatoes from freezing, bake them for breakJiist. A Harvard student defines flirtation to be attention without intermon. During the month of May there were shipped from Ottawa liS.iAHj pound of butter I "Sambo, did you ever sec the Cats-kill Cats-kill mountains':1" "No, saw; hut I've seen urn kiJl mice." Thomas M. Trends, who fell into a Boston sewer, has recovered $10,000 damages from tho cily. Gen. Ulrieh, tho commander of Strasburgb, has written to 3J. Thiers, demandiog a court-martial. Juvenile merchants in Detroit catch frogs at a shilling a dozen rather than play leap-frog for nothing. A Terre Haute distiller last month made 50,207 gallons of whisky, and paid a revenue tax of fl'G.UO'J. A lady in Birmingham, England, was fined $100 for giving an undeserved unde-served recommendation to a discharged servant. Tho result of the recent overflowing of the Arkansas river 'm, that sevoral new channels had been formed below Little Hock. Nellie Brockway, a dressmaker at Hamburg, Conn., has become $tiO,0u0 richer by the death of an uncle in Philadelphia. A milliner at South Adams, Mass., lately sent her fourteen year old boy to New York, alone, to buy millinery goods for her. Tho namo "grass widow" is ono of : French origin. It is derived from the French Grace, and originally meant a widow by courtesy. Ironton, Ohio, manufactures iron to tho value of $2,750,000 annually, and the pig iron shipped to and from her wharf is 1,188,000. Tho management of the Erie railway rail-way has issued an order prohibiting thesalo of liquor in tho restauranta along the line of the road. "Do you like novels?" asked Miss Fitzgerali of her backwoods lover. "I can't say," he replied; "I never had any; but I tell you I'm death on possum." pos-sum." A man in Essex county, Mass., ro- ceotly dug his own grave, because he wanted to be buried beside a friend, and feared his relations would not attend at-tend to his wishes. When a Connecticut deacon nudged a somnolont worshipper with the subscription sub-scription box, the sleepy individual awoke partially, smiled, murmured "I don't smoke," and dropped off again. The University of Oxford, England, will celebrato its thousandth anniversary anniver-sary this year. Popular tradition assigns as-signs king Alfred tho Great as its founder, about the middle of the ninth century. Monsieur Octavo Davy has- nearly concluded his preparations for his raid after the North Pole, on a raft, and will start about the last of this week. He is expecting important instructions from scientists in Europe. A minister at Niles, Michigan, with an eye to the unique, had himself photographed pho-tographed in his pulpit the other day, having previously decorated it with a profusion of flowers and suputuous furniture. fur-niture. A-fcCuLWuu, not WdS 'fciuOU.'VlBU-' ing to pop the question, did it in the following singular manner: Taking up the young lady's cat, he said, "Possy, may 1 have your mistress?" "It was answered by the young lady, who said, "Say yes, pussy." The report of tho German Immigrant Immi-grant society of New York shows that during the past month 21,890 German immigrants were landed at ttat port, an increase of 10,000 as com Dared with the corresponding month of last year. Total of arrivals since the first of January Jan-uary last, 4S.851. |