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Show Sweet Siddona netted Dca Jloiucs $12f). "Brick" Vomer oy has a ricw girl baby. Kansas is getlicg up an anti-tobacco colony. SL Louis ig struggling for a morgue. Boucicault is writing an American comedy. Kentucky Las ono town wilhout small pox. Ico on tho lake at Duluth is two feet thick and still growing. Minnesota estimated her pcoplo at 527,000 before the last cold snap. A Wisconsin paper advertises for salo "a cow that givos milk &vo years old." Lucy Stone won't lecture this winter. win-ter. She is nuraing a little boy four weeks old. An Indiana school girl of thirteen is six feet one, and hasn't got up to the higher branches yet. Bret Harto in his lecture on the Argonauts of '49, says that stealing and civilization camo together. Massachusetts is going to build another an-other commodious asylum as a watering-place for cotifirmcd invalids. Tho Pennsylvania buokwheat cron is paid to be large enough for tho consumption con-sumption of all tho 'ia-scs ia the State. St, Louis dog-oatohers strap dogs to a long rope with a guide at each end, and then run them to the pound, 2j at a timo.. Georgia issues invitations for "your company on Friday evening to a candy yank. No persons carrying shot-guns admitted." A Virginian has a contrivance with , which he proposes to melt snow and ice on railroads by means of an immense im-mense flame as tho train tuds. The American Literary bureau iB arranging a Western lecturing tour for JUenry Ward Becchcr, George William Curtis, and Bret Hartc. At the funeral of on Iowa man who broke through tho ice, the preacher said: "My friends,' in the world to which our dear Irieod has gone there ls no ice." "Cold champagne by tho glass," is an announcement posted in a Broadway Broad-way window. The individual who will announce hot champagne remains yet to be discovered. The Northern Pacific railroad directors di-rectors say that to keep tho snow off their track, although they havn't got to pay a cent for tribute, they must spend millions for de-fence. A sentimental tourist (wo shouldn't be surprised to hear that he is an American) bad been lined for cuctiDg Bouvenirs do voyago from the tails of the horsc3 in Queen Victoria's Btables. At a late Ion ton wedding in Gotham, Goth-am, a gay and giddy girl sat awhile upon the back of the church pew, and then relieved tho monotony of the thing by standing on her head in the pew just behind. A recently established lager saloon in Boston Is haunted by "a tall, headless head-less figure in white." It is supposed to be a native ghost, which, being only accustomed to domestic spirits, has lost its head on bier. An Iowa pchoolboy recently killed hiB father for telling hina to behave himself, and tho average juryman can't make up his mind whether the provocation was sufficient to constitute . justifiable homicido or whether lucre f was insanity prepense. GILMER & SALISBURY'S |