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Show INKLINGS. K-a.j YW1 li (.-Imibing the l'vrc- IH'L A L-jikI-ii iv.i.-l. i:.La gculixxl the .'.ah. l'i,:Lt..h '.-'.''.a li.ta thiriy in.irri.io a Tin' r:ii::v .-'..t.--'ii h.i- Lvnmu'lK'i'vl L- ';l:-::;.' ti-hiTiin'ii carry their Tiic N.'w Kn;!,i:ul cainp-meetings TiiL' t ait:- (."M i r vi tin- j; rangers in Imva i-Liin.it. d at L-7-"'.. Ii'..-t.n riititimn's to jini-cvute milk c1l-:iKt.- who the aihilf.'raiixl mull. FiulHm:-!s is trying the rflivt of si -a air on hLs cnini-icxion at Hl-s-ton. " For sale or tn rent " is pa-tal on more than G.i.x to houses ami stores in New Orleans. A hero of Kork Islaiul, III., h; challeii'.'ixl the Mayor of the city to ti;;ht with seyihes, Isabella, of Spain, who is nt Vien-; Vien-; na, is severely let alone by the royal family of Austria. The Tope ailvises French pilgrims not to vUit Koine, as they will be subjected sub-jected to Italian insults. Surveyors on the Northern Pacific railroad are to be furnished witps to meet iK.ibIe cimtinyencies. " How would you like to have your daughter marry a nigger?" is once more the slogan in Virginia. Urban.,, O., bus made a success of camp-meetings. A great deal of green corn is missed by the farmers ft I tout there. A Lynn shoemaker claims to have made "two pairs of shoes in forty-eight minutes. He received forty-live cents a pair. A Peoria antiquarian claims to have a stone that General Washington threw at a woodpecker on his father's cherry tree. A Boston paper comforts bathers with the assurance that "sharks are now plentiful oil the Massachusetts south shore." Mr. Howard C. Gardner, of Chicago, Chica-go, had to pay his pisler-in-law $7,000 damages for calling her a " vixen," ;t " viper," and a " liar." Portland, Me., was astonished recently re-cently by a young man from Bethal, who is six feet eight incites in height, and is only nineteen years old. Clara Louise Kellogg is at the Mountain House, in the Catskills, and makes the hills resound with her " practising " every morning. A gentleman in Indiana, when asked why he didn't many and settle set-tle down, feelingly replied that, lie thought more seriously of being divorced di-vorced and settling up. A mocking-bird in a tavern near Lake George imitates the buzz of i rattlesnake so well that when men come into the house they kick off their boots find run away. A first-class ghost ro;tmed around Burlington, N. J., several nights, but, wonderful coincidence, disappeared the same night that William Conway was laid up with a charge of shot in his leg. O'Kelley. too, thinks the universal republic is approaching, :vnd writes from his dungeon in Spain, that millions mil-lions of oppressed people have stored in their hearts the words of President Grant. In Danbury when you sec a little girl with odd gaiters on her feet, a crownlcss jockey on her head, three brown paper packages in her arms, nnd a mouthful of candy, you may know her mother is washing. Jacksonville, Illinois, woukl seem to have a healthy competition in the omnibuss business. One line advertises adver-tises to cany city passengers .to nnd from the cars nnd their homes free, and throw in all the necessary " gentlemanly gen-tlemanly attention." One of the infirmities of American minds, sarcastically says a recent writer, is a passion for suggesting presidential candidates. The country scarcely recovers from tho excitement of the quadrennial contest, ere the avalanche of such suggestions begins ; to move. A well-dressed and seemingly well educated lady has taken possession posses-sion of the Bonaparte mansion nt Bor-dentown, Bor-dentown, N. J., claiming to be the nearest lineal representative of Napoleon. Na-poleon. The agent of the property U absent, and the parties in charge are at a loss what to do. |