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Show ILLINOIS. Galesburg gamblers do it in the quiet of the grave yard. Peoria alternates her drink between eider at six cents per gallon. "Masculine corsets" are tho latest thing out oo a "bust" in Quincy. Farinington is badly down with the epichiokeD, better known as chicken pox. The Peoria elevator's chimney has fallen. The top bricks came down 1-5 feet. ' 1 , The Hessian fly is foraging on the young wheat of Morgan and adjacent count ion. At the funeral of a deceased ohuich member, Joliet now drapeB his empty pew in mourning. The mills at Lewistowu think they can fabricate a yarn that will wool tue people from tooth to toe-nail. James li odvers was scalded to death at Peoria, on Monday, by tho bursting of the supply pipe of the Fort Clark mills. . Thc"Minnesota" passed Rook Island on Monday, laden with 4,000 barrels of Missouri apples for pies and sauee for the north. The "Quincy Herald" has "mammoth "mam-moth zephyrs playing with women's skirts." The husbands of that town must bo a meek lot Elgin adjourns i's prayer meetings when a lecturer lights among the steeples. Eggleston caused the last adjournment. Macoupin county prisoners gag and tie the jailor before they run away. Six of them engaged in that pleasant pastime a lew days slnoe Youojj men from the country mistake mis-take Qumoy's Babcock fire coolers for water coolers. Of course they go home with one spark of ignoraneo extinguished. extin-guished. Peoria had another foupdliDg boy for distribution on Tuesday morning. Although fjuod on Mr. Porst's door-Btep, door-Btep, he "darsn't" own it, and the policemen po-licemen arrested it. |
