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Show TIVKLIIVGS. Troy has forsworn base ball. Boston school girls play foot-ball. Michigan bees are thawing out dead. Paducah has uniformed her policemen. police-men. A Minnesota church has four Indian rectors. A national'poker-oongress is talked of in Chicago. Early potatoes in Florida four feet of snow in Nebraska. The salaries of postmasters are to be readjusted on July 1. I A child at Decatur, Ilk, was lately mangled by a pet coon, Paris had thirteen justifiable suicides in a single day recently. The Chioago newsboys own a oorncr lot in tbo heart of the city, Troy weight a baby of one pound sis ounoes born there last week. Raleiijh, N. C. i is progressing at the rate of 250 new buildings a year. A Cleveland court is fritteriog away its time over the ownership of a griddle. grid-dle. A Wisconsin clergyman has had himself photographed in the act of prayer. Dover, N. H., is proparicg to ocle-brate ocle-brate tho 250th anniversary of its settlement. set-tlement. Yale college has reoeived the loveliest loveli-est present imaginable a real petrified Indian! A man in Now ork calls himBelf an "iotoslioal taxidermist." He Btuffs Bausages. Berlin ib building a new beer garden for the accommodation of throo thousand thous-and at a time. A pedestrian contest is open in Phil-1 adelphia to all 250 pounders who wish to enter the lists. The cditor-in-ohiof of the DeB Moines (la.) Republican wcarB back hair and a bustle. A conviot in the Georgia penitentiary chewed enough green window paper to cause his death. A tailless calf was born in Warren oouoty, Indiana, last week, who is enjoying en-joying life dow but wait until fly j time Tho exhibitor of tho "best pair of patched pantB" will receive a prize at the coming Tompkins oounty fair in this State. A Newport (N. Y.)- schoolmaster has discovered that filling his pupils' mouthB with pepper effeotually stops their whispering. An old frontiorsman asserta that if the Indians were deprived of their steeds their warlike resources would soon be exhausted, A noted English olergyman recommends recom-mends to people to urn their dead, leaving the undertakers to earn their bread in some other way. Paris has fony-three horse-meat butohera. Last year's sales included five thousand horses, Beven hundred asses and twenty-three males. The Spiritualistio fraternity propose to cultivate their esprit du oorps in a "national mass convention" at New Albany, lad., on the 23d of May. An eooentria burglar took the trouble trou-ble of breaking into the sohool-houso at State Bridge, Madison oounty, to steal a water-pail, a broom, and a terrestrial ter-restrial globe. It may be worth while for sooundreln to know in view of the coming postal cards, that a London man was recently sentenced to pay a heavy fine and go to prison for two years, for libeling a young lady on one of those oards. |
