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Show INKLINGS. Xi'twithnding tlie SLOLirge at McmphLs, the papors thciv keep up their iddhion notes. A patent fire-erpekHK-d futir inn. in Montreal the other day, ami it was only experimenting then. Bourlon is held firm in Kentueky. That's the way to hold it. when you once get it in hand. John TIarper Las a two-yenr o'.d colt whieh lie is conrident will rival the crrunn:ncefi of Longlellow. A Camulian pnper. describing a man found drx.wntd. said he lmd on wine-coloTeJ paiit. That's a lesson to bihblers. " IVw Jim Wayne ! " remarks an Indiana paji.T, ' he's gone w'nere bar-tendens don't scowl when a mun iillji the gluss up." A Frm hmnn 1ms inveuteil a Uot with wheels, which lie s;iys will enable ena-ble the wearer to go considerably faster than a horse. A reverend gentleman of Ohvego, X. Y., was lat week fined S1.0 lor clinking Ins wife, which he did with a view to make her talk. A Michigan manufacturer has 1Sf-000 1Sf-000 broom -hand lea ready for shipment. ship-ment. This ought to set huabantls to thinking about coming liomc early. A number of the New York Indies are forming a ritle association. Some of them can bring down tlu'ir husbands' hus-bands' pursea at an astoninhing distance; dis-tance; St. Louis surgeons are a wise set. After probing three hours to find a bullet in a man's back, they discovered discover-ed that the victim had been hit with a beer Untie. Two Italian beggars in St. Louis (father and daughter) are fighting in the courts over 10, 000, the proceeds ot twenty years ot street-begging in the large American cities. It is pleasant to remember that not an hour passes in the increasing march of time but that there is a half-dressed man somewhere on the earth calling for a shirt. A Washington inventor is at work on a model ior a dog that can run . along on the top ot a fence. Ho ex- 1 peutd to wreak destruction on the cats ; and become wealthier than the Koth- . schilds. A Texas editor prints the following energetic opinion: "The man who would water petroleum and sell it, would sneak into the palace of the King of Kings and steal the gilding from the wings of angeis." Perhaps it was not amusing to see John, the other night, singing contentedly con-tentedly to himself, and crumbling bread into a bowl of starch which his wife had placed in the pantry, and paying there was nothing like bread and milk, alter all. The other day a certain tailor sent his bill to a magazine alitor. He was startled a few hours afterward by its being returned, with a note appended, ap-pended, saying, " Your manuscript is respectfully declined." Higby, the other day, found some money in the street. " Ah," said he with a knowing look, "papers have been saying that money's thiiil. but I wouldn't have believed it i! 1 h..dn't found it in the gutter." Next tn the man who feigns Fick-nes, Fick-nes, and pawns his wife's back hair while she is gone for the doctor; is the man who eats bananas during divine service and drops the skins in the aisle. An illiterative female letter-writer says that, if she could divest herself of her troubles and her petticoats and be a man for a twelvemonth, she would choose for that space to occupy the "pulpit, pantaloons and perquisites" perquis-ites" of Henry Ward Beecher. An Iowa editor recently eloped with the wife- of one of his subscribers, and was frightened half to death by tho appearancoof the injured man at the hotel of a neighboring town, to which he had taken'his flight. But the husband hus-band only wanted his paper stopped, that was all. A lager-beer house in Hudson county, New Jerjry, was ionnerlya chinch. The shrewd Teuton who now keeps it was about to erase an inscription in-scription painted over the door, but on second thought he left tho last line untouched. Jt is, " Let him that is athirst come." |