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Show IXKLHGS. Atchi.ji uchcb fur a fire-engine. CuMekir Is building eastlcs in Spain. Sukes is s.iLl-cveJ and siui-v'wiged. Butler thinks He will be governor jf MU.-ii.s.-ijipt anyway. Many Xrw York families will spend the winter in Floridu. Fashionable funerals now append to their notices, "No carriages.'' There is ;v lack of harmony in the civil-service commission. Old song. Brooklyn 1ms aUJiJuxl dog pounds on acciunt of humaniwrian scrupies. Some uf ihe new lonnets roseno'ic the hat worn by Mr. Shall of l'ersw. Late gales in "Western Xew York liavedone much damage to the orchards. or-chards. Sarato-a hotels have registered o-r 200 vi.-iiors duiii g the li'st llm months. A woman in an Illinois penitentiiirj recently cut oil' a finger to escupi; being compelled to sew. The French Geographical Society are considering the subject of turmuL the Sahara desert into a sea. Warren eountv, Xew York, p; bounty of M cents per on r: snakes killed within its limits. An Assyrian explorer claims to have found iv portion of the dcluce tablet, originally the property of Mr. Noah. The old fashioned character of Philadelphia Phil-adelphia is evinced in the weekly burial of IS persons above SO years old. The first class hotels of New York are to reduce prices fifteen per cent, nfler the IStli of October. It's about time. ' "The Xew -York Tribune cleared. SS0,-000 SS0,-000 during the first six months of this year, and it's a poor year for pon-and-mk profits, too. A Philadelphia servant left in charge of the house for a week, cleared the house of $7,000 worth of furniture ana sola it lor soou. A fond lover who serenaded his latly the other night in a southern city was -very wet when he got through and it didn't rain much either. A Chicago paper explains w-hy a street car conductor in that city was honest and refused to Like a $" for a $1 ; he thought it was counterfeit. , The police of Springfield, 111., besieged be-sieged a gambling-house for sixteen hours. Their patience was rewarded . by the capture of fifty-three gamblers. Mrs. General Tom Thumb, who , hurt herself by falling down stairs a few days sincehas got well and drives out again as usual in her pony pha?-ton. pha?-ton. A convict of the Michigan city penitentiary pen-itentiary feigned death for three hours, lint when they jabbed a pin into in-to him he rose up and wanted to put a head on the jabber. Tliis looks suspicious : "A. Richardson Rich-ardson and C. Stanford, with their wives, were capsized while sailing on Conesus lake, Xew York. The men swam ashore, but the wives were drowned." The anchorage and unexposed parts of tho great suspension bridge at Xiagara have .just undergone a close inspection. Everything was found to be as perfect as when laid, twenty years ago. The old pump at Yale, at whose shrine generations of college poets have tuned their lyres and broken their water-jugs, has gone the way of all the earth. "The well has been filled fill-ed up, and its air obliterated. A lady who the other day bought a barrel of cabbages in the Georgetown , market, found a live baby in it, well dressed, with a milk bottle in its mouth, and so protected by the man-1 ner in which the cabbages had been . arranged, as to prevent its suffocation. suffoca-tion. A South Carolina man couldn't die happy until his son had shot a neighbor neigh-bor against whom there was an old grudge. "Did you 'hit him plump centre 7" asked the dying man, and upon receiving an affirmative reply, he fell back and death's cold smile covered his face. |
