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Show . - imDus. , Iowa owns 1,250,000 hogs. London ia brilliant with- patent gas. - An Illinois editor sports the name of Doubleblowcr. , . . , . Clinton, Iowa, arrays itself in sheets and baa ghost parties. : . ., Forty thousand buffaloes are loafing around Wallaoj, Kan. The epizootic has brought on a slight revival of horse stealing. The SL Louis "Globe" talks of the horse disease aa "Old Ep." : -. Sportsmen averago tweaty-fivo to the aoro in New liampshirc. Memphis husbands pay $50 for tho luxury of chustisiog their wives. "Shinny" ha broken out with great violence in all ports of Pennsylvania. St. Louis will take quick steps to 1 stop the driving of wild steers through its aireels. - A Sauk county, Wisconsin, school boy killed a comrade by a blow in his stomach. A light wafion drawn by a span of goats is an incident of tbe cpizootia in. Chicago. The Prussian government will uee only American paper for its bank notes hereafter. The report of an earthquake at Janesville, Wis., originated from wide- 1 spread ague. In Brooklyn laws taking a girl to the menagerie oooe, is no proof of an "engagement."'...'., "en-gagement."'...'., Prinking a gill of cream a day is what gave a Hond-out youDg lady eight pounds of flesh. . .. , The Turkish bath failed to cure St. Louis's c&se of hydrophobia, and the little girl is dead. . Tbe sausage trade has been thrown back fifty years or twenty-five anyhow by the cpizooty. The Chicago brewery houses are afHictEd with the epizootio, and take to their bier resignedly. A wostcrn editor says of a neighbor with a quivering eyelid, that be "stutters "stut-ters in- the left eyo." A Connecticut young lady's' bad spelling led to a six thousand dollar broach of promise case. . ? To transact business in Marquetto couDty, Michigan, it is necessary to know seven languages. The Episcopal fund in Massachusetts Massachu-setts is to be sufficiently increased to give the bishop a salary of $7,000. One of the saddest signs of tho times is the growing disinclination in New England to prevent the suicide of spinsters. spin-sters. Two plugs of tobacco in a man's pocket inte:ceptcd a bullet and saved his life in a fight, in Carroll oounty, Kentucky. Detroit has her small pox well distributed. dis-tributed. A small pox patient traveled 1 about the city sixty hours before he was captured. Romance is invaded in her very stronghold. Small steam launches are superseding gondolas on the canals 1 and lagune of Venice. Tbe Philadelphia "Star" notes it as a lact observed there that dyspepsia and kindred diseases have increased in proportion with the Btrect railway pya-tem pya-tem in that city. Levi Brown, of Poygan, Michigan, thought he oould hold a playful young bull by the tail, but his widow now says "ho never could stick to anythiog ten minutes in his life." A woetern editor kindly says that a politician with whom he does not agree, was made about two days after the old contract for brains had expired and before the new one was made. |