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Show IKLIAGS, Funerals hy moonlight are a St. Louis invention. D'i Chaillu will return from Norway in November. The queen r-f Holland is on her way to pay a visit tn England. Mrue. Ilouzand is said to propose takiDg up her residence in New York. M. Guizot and M. Thiers boast of never having had a headache. . Very "straight-out" The Democratic Demo-cratic and Liberal parties in Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Encland mntcb.es the African "tul-low-trce" with its pol-lurd willow. Mrs. Scott Siddons, being ill, has canceled numerous lecture engagements, engage-ments, A ptatue io honor of king Robert, (he Bruce, is to W erected at Stirling Castle-It Castle-It is hard to respect old ace when ooo sets Hold on ft venerable -pair -of ohii'kens. Vesuvius wacu't properly cured of its lapt eruption, nnd shows .tyiu pi oms of breaking out main. Cbicngo clairui to b:ive 100,000 more inhabitants than she had previous to the great rc.- A Sundusky old man has varied the monotony of suicide by hanging him-lf him-lf with a whip-las-h. Kiluiond About is euii.stniing his newly-regained liberty into a license to abuse the Germans moro savagely lhao before, A ring of land grabbers at K ist i Sayioaw expects (o make $2,000,000 in stealing the lands of the Chippewa Indians. The western bank of the Missouri, at Omaha, is being washed away at the rate of six inches a day. When a Boston man tries to wind his watch with a door key he is oniy a little eccentric They don't sell whisky there. Two old and fat citizens of Richmond, Rich-mond, Va., recently got into a uot, but their corpulency prevented either from reaching the other. Long John Wentworth was frund lying in bed, asleep, in a New York hotel, one night last week. Three persons died in Crocket county, Tennessee, recently, after drinking coffee from a pot into which a box of matches had fallen. Joaquin Miller, it is said, has abandoned aban-doned his intention to lecture, because his voice doesn't correspond with his "cheek." James Steele left Hartford in 1850 to go on a whaling voyage, and bas just returned to astoni.-h friends who had long got over mourning lor hinji Crawford, the Topeka murderer, is desirous of being hanged, and ex presses himself as preferring death and hell to a life in the penitentiary. It is reported that the ravages of the cotton caterpillar during the past month in the South must result in a loss of no less than $18,000,000. Ellis Van Mcer, a sawmill hand in Bay city, III., undertook to have a little trial of strength with the gang belt the other day, and all that was left of Van Meer were "mere" atoms. A French newspaper having said that M. Gambetta possessed only one wash-basin, and that a cracked one, admiring friends, in a very short time, sent him seventeen toilet sets. A Troy boy swallowed an emetic, and his friends, supposing he had taken poison, gave him another emetic This homeopathic treatment made a shell of the boy in short notice, |