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Show THE TERRITORIES. A Washington Territory man of sixty-five, instead of going around sampling gravestones, has married a girl of twenty-one. Assessments of sixty per cent, od tho capital stock of the Puget Sound Telegraph company, amounting to $11,080, have been, made and promptly met. Frank Everra, who lives about five miles abovo Lewiston, Idaho, says ho saw, during the warm rain last week, millions of young crickets on the snow. They had just been hatched out, and were jumping about like so many flics, which they resemble in size aud color, The business of the three towns of Black-hawk, Central and Nevada, Col., for tho past year abrogates $'.,-JdlVm'nts1 $'.,-JdlVm'nts1 and roOO'Mtftte1.11"" The bravest man yet discovered is the Olympia chap who imagined that he heard a noise the other night, and ; carefully avoiding disturbing his wife, 1 crept out on the roof with a pistol and stayed all night. The following is said to have occurred oc-curred at Boise city a short time ago: A gentleman sat down to supper, and pointing to an object he had discovered in the hash dish, indignantly inquired of tho waiter: "What do you call that ?" '"That," said the waiter, "appears "ap-pears to be a wrist-band, with a sleeve-button sleeve-button attached." "Well," said the customer in wrath, "do you think that a proper thing for a man to find in his hash?" "Good heavens, sir," cried the waiter, "would you expect to find a ten dollar silk umbrella in fifteen cents' worth of hash?" One boarder less. |
