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Show INKLINGS, Hay costs $25 a ton in Cactyla. Florida promises a large orange crop. The Novia Scotia fiahcricB employ 20,000 men. You can get one green pea for a cent in Boston. In Leedsville, N. J., the hens lay saramblud eggf. Half the continental tourists are Eaid to be Americanc The St. Louis season opens with three divorces a day. Illinois proposes public castigation as a penalty lor wife beating. Savannah, Ga., is proud of the first coup do solejl of the season. Boston uniforms with caps her street railroad conductors aed drivers. The tobacco planting in Miss uri and Kansas this year id unusually large. Naturally enough a Chicago oourt has divorced Mr. and Mrs, Freelovc. It is a $5 fine in Keokuk to plant shade trees within thirteen feet of the sidewalk. A New York milky has breo fined $50 for not adulterating his milk more skillfully. Ono item among the expenses of the last congress is one hundred dollars for snuff." Brooklyn has imprisoned a man for two years merely because he beat his boy to death. And now Vermont says her Bugar harvest is over, and but little sweetness has been saved. A man named Gladwin, at Middle-ton, Middle-ton, Connecticut, has had to pay $4,- 000 for calling a woman "an old blab-mouth." blab-mouth." A Cleveland son of color sues for $5,000 damages beoause he was helped from the theatrical dress-oirolo involuntarily. invol-untarily. Tho fbor of a warehouse in Kentucky Ken-tucky gavo way recently under the weiirht of 5,000 barrels of whisky. Who 1 wouldn't? When a man mutilates the newspapers news-papers in a Boston reading room, be is taken out and set up in the boot and shoe business. m The .American plug hat is used to measure potatoes by the Sandwich Islanders, while in San Domingo it serves as a nest for setting hens. The play bills of some of the Parisian Pari-sian theatres have printed on ihem a map of the principal streets in the vicinity, for the convenience of strangers. strang-ers. Grant's Philadelphia soap works burned on Friday laet, and now the administration ad-ministration is expected to make up in dirt what it may lack in soft soap Chicago Times. An Aoamosa, Iowa, man was struck by Ug1 tning last week. Without displaying dis-playing the least Anamosaty be merely remarked to his wife that he "had told her ropoatedly not to pour coal oil on the tiro." A Louisville practical Jokor succeeded succeed-ed in imitating a canine growl so perfectly a few nights since, that one of his most intimate friends was "April fooled" into perforating him with a charge of buckshot, Cono3rning the refusal of the supreme su-preme court to allow Myra Bradwell to talk in the law courts of Illinois, the Louisville Courier-Journal Bays: ''An order of the supreme oourt can tie up some things, but a woman's tongue isn't one of tbem. |