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Show INKLINGS. "Blind Tom" Li coucertiz'ui in Iowa. The order of the Patrons of Husbandry Hus-bandry is (spreading in the south. Vienna is building six new theatres, to amuse visitors to the exposition. Narragaosett iier promises to be the "swell" watering place of next season. The Philadelpbians are now roping the ladies in for subeoripUoos to the centennial stock. A colored man in Providence sold his teeth to a dentist, tbe other day, in order to be able to buy a dinner. A local paper in Iowa records the accidental shooting of a doctor, and has "strorjg fears of his rcoovcry." j Frank Dripsel, of Utica, oamo near 1 being missed forever by too much hfiogiDg while "playing Foster" lately. The customs authorities of Halifax are proceeding aj-iiiust parties known to have plundered the Atlantic dead. "Who dat hit me?" "Where's dat lantern?" were the exclamations of an astonished Elmira darkey, after being thrown something like a hundred feet by a locomotive. A Syracuae paper has received a poem on the loss of the Atlantic, but is afraid to publish it, lest some of the Burvivora Bceiog it mij-bt feel worse than they did at tbe time of tbe tragedy. The president of a Nashville Btreet railway responded to a demand for fare by saying, "I own most of this road," and got this reply; "Well, you won't own it Iodk if you don't pay me your fare; thai's all I've got to say about it." A Texas person has just been Bent to prison for a term of throo years for stealing three aocordcons. At first glanco thid penalty would seem excessive, exces-sive, but the prisoner himself admitted that he had intended to play on iho instruments, whioh intention,of oourse, justifies the sentence. An exchange devotes a quarter of a column to tell how mirrorB may be ruined." There is a vast difference in people. We believe in condensing things. If we were asked by an anxious public "how mirrors may be ruined," we would say, "poke 'em in their di-apbramB di-apbramB with a stick." A New York paper declarcB that "at the Vienna world's fair their will probably be exhibited the greatest collection col-lection of American ioafers, bummers, and dead-beats that was evor assembled assem-bled together on any occasion since the present geological epoch ootnmeoced." What an excellent opportunity to exterminate ex-terminate them. A gentleman in St. Louis has invented in-vented a little machine for removing the shell from chestnuts and poaouts, with exclusive patent in favor of the shuck shuckers of-that town. It is made to fit over the nose; the breath passing from the nostrils furnishes the motive power; the nuts are dropped m tbe hopper on top, and the meat or unshelled nut is dropped into the mouth of tbe eiter below, It is told of one of the citizenB of Milwaukee, who has recently been made a father, that he enjoys tbe heir hugely, Being of a social turn, he attends at-tends many parties, and on his departure depart-ure placeB the Bweet cherub in bed. Oa bis return he gets in the place warmed by tbo darling, and puts the darling at the foot of tho bed where he can keep his feet on it. He says a cold room is the healthiest to sloep in, and that a register is not only a folly but a positive iojury. The latest from tho scat of war: Wodickory dick Mmloc, Modoc run up the clock, TI10 clock struck one, down Moduc run, Modickwry dick Modoc; Ana nobody kuows wlioro ovor tuat bloody Modoc |