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Show I1VKLUVGS. Green apples are ripe in Kentucky. Corn in Alabama is ready for hoeing. hoe-ing. Professor Aassiz la reported to be failing in health. Wanted A needle to sow a patch on the pants of a tired dog. It will require 20,000,000 visitors to the Vienna exposition to make it pay. Tcias has undermined its constitution constitu-tion by i'iidt liviog, and wants a new one. Vice-president Wilson proposes to pay off the national debt with his back than nine millions of brier-wood brier-wood and other wooden tobacoo pipes are made yearly in this country. A California scientist has discovered, discover-ed, as he Bays, that eels leave tho water to graze in the meadow in the evening. Miss Faithful Bxprossed herself as delighted with Vassar college, aod thought it a realisation of Tennyson's dream in the ".Princess." The eoa serpent has been scon again, this time in Indiana, by some old fellows fel-lows who were considerably agitated on the temperance orusadc. At St. Paul, Minn. the place where they send people to be oured of catarrhal ca-tarrhal diseases a man rooontly sneezed sneez-ed bis spine out of joint. Tho services in an Ohio church a few Sundays ago were suspended while a young lady horsewhipped a male member of the congregation. Unprotected mJes avoid a certain vil-lapo vil-lapo iu Mnino, whioh contains fifty five widows. What would the late Tony Weller have thought of this ? A Silver city miner remarked, after 1 attending a prayer meeting a fuw weekB agoi that "it was the first time ho had heern the word of God handled for close onto forty yoar." A Dubuque testator formally gave; devised, and bequeathed his wearing apparel to his wife, for the reason that e be had been accustomed to wear 'em during her mr.rr.ed life. An enterprising church in Virginia has mailed a printed oiroular to every member Of the forty-second oongress, asking for contributions to their fund for building a new edifice. : A oonduotor on the; Pennsylvania railroad telegraphed from Derry station sta-tion reoently; "Train delayed fifteen minutes on acoount of a lady. Don't know whether it is a boy or girl." A girl of thirteen recently brought to market at -Anierious, Ga., a 500 pound bale of cotton, the result of her own unaided labor, from the - ploughing plough-ing of the soil to, the piokijg and ginning. A Louiaville practical joker succeeded succeed-ed in imitating a canine growl- so per-feotly per-feotly the other night that one of his moat intimate frionds was "April fooled" fool-ed" into perforating him with a charge of buokahot. The proprietor of a haunted house in Atlanta, Ga., offers it rent-freo for one month to any one who wishes to try it, having hitherto failed to find a tenant who would stay in it longer than live daye. A woman in Spain lately gave birth to a consolidated twin with two heads and four legs proceeding from a single trunk. One of the heads was stillborn, still-born, but the other lived two hours.. It has now joined the oolleotion of spirits in an anatomical museum at Madrid. - |