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Show lKLIGS. bills have been introduced and referred re-ferred to committee?. A Hartford kaiirK jmrk. iirupriotiT ; advertises dilferent rats of aiituii-iiin j for "crown" persons and "adult-." ."A SpritjLioM cat deliberatoly at- ! tempted to waik through the big wheel of a stationary entice. That cat is i dead. A woDian in Haverill, ila., had a mirror brought to America in the i JJavrloicer, and in her family 200 , year?. A Culilbrnia ohecp raiser uwniuir j W 'ai sheep, from which ho reali2o ! an incomo of luO,000 yearly, com- i mc-nccd twenty years ago with a nock : of SuO. "Why La there do ort-siu on this , miik, George ?'' paid an under graduate ; to his "scout" at Cambridsc "8ttr it up, sir," was the rrplv; "it -..ink a to tho bottom." When Charles l.umb visited tho Litclifie'd cathedral, hi- puide. to'd ; him t li rat threo nicn onco dined up n , tho top of the steeple. "'J'hey mut 1 Iihtc Ie:n very r-harp poi," said Limb. A minister recently waa oondoling ' with a father M ho had lost a sou by ' death, when tho father replied, "1 was ' ui common sorry to loto the boy, but there's no use crying over spilled j milk." ' ! Au o'd lady javi; thia it-her iuta of . a great man : "One who is kceriul of j his clothe?, den t drink spiiits, k'n read the Bible without fepeHicg the j wordy, and eat a cold dinner on wash I day without giumbliuj;." ; An old gentleman is living m tho I Astor house, New York, who rocis- I torcd his name on the. books of tho' hotel tho fir;t day it was opened, and : has been thoro ever .-inc, a period of j thirty lour yefir.j. i A now style of ointments for tho i hair aro butto flic?, biids and beetle?, ! mado of velvet nnd covered with frosted silver or gold powder, which 1 makes them gliston by gaslight find has a very pretty effect. ; A citizen of Goppori, Mniue, tho j other night, mi.-took his wile's yeast j bottlo for his favorite "iittlo brown j jug," and took 'a long pull aud a; i etroug pull" therefrom. Ho is nnw i regarded as n ri?ing man. i When tho first public iuMitmioti wae j established in South lioston, land nd- ! vancod from iplOO to 1,000 per aero. Now, tho removal of all the public in- I stitutione would increaao tho value of the land there ten per cent. Baron Lionel Rothschild, tho banker, j has recently purohased an enstato in ! Kngland, called 'frmii Park, for 1,150,- j 000. It is in the oounty of Hereford, j and comprises 3,6-U notes, with deer i park and n manfinn of considerable antiquity. A crazy man having jjot into tho' gallery of tho eenate of thi United States, during a rambling debate, was taken out. the sergeant-at-nrms tolling him that no was out of place in thut pallery. "That's so," said tho lunatic; "I onnhi to he on tho floor witJi the jen-atorB." jen-atorB." "i. uU don't do work uuGUtfh to oarn your salary,'- said tho head of a certain cer-tain government department to one of his clerks. "Work I" exclaimed tkn-dy. tkn-dy. "1 worked hard enough to get hero. Surely you don't expect mo Lo work now 1 am here i"' A ilwutaua njiuei e ditubuT recently re-cently stolo her lather's swag and eloped with her lover to Son Francisco, whero tho deuco were matte ace. Iler paternal parent, who had tamed his ibotsteps towards the capital of the golden State in pursuit oi' hia daughter daugh-ter and bis dnos-s, was killed ty Apaohos, so that now the loving couple cou-ple aro aa happy aa tho day is long. |