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Show INKLIXGS. li.jptmng h;is to be iK'iit! tlifuuyh two iiacliw ot ii.o in the ConHcetii-ut river now. It is proposal to jirt-sorvc the b.in of the Ohio by phmtin willow trct-s along them. They are anticipating milj wc:ithei' and the Black Crook in Maine. The&e should always go together. The "girl of the periotl"' is to discard dis-card corsets. As the jockeys say, she is fast, but she wont stay. In Chicago hotels there is au average aver-age of more than one servant to every guest and the protits correspond. In Kussia the authorities nre empowered em-powered to burn postal cards if they contain indecent or insulting mutter. mut-ter. Subscriptions in aid of the family of the late Captain Fry, of the Yiiyiiu'tis, have been opened hi several Southern South-ern cities. Smoking on "an emptv stomach was what killed Robert "Wright in London, recently. Xevcr carry an empty stomach. A New Hampshire fainter lias made 18.000 bushels of potatoes into starch this year. This will be apt to keep him straight. . There are said to be twenty-five hundred deserters from" the I'nited States regular a miy, scattered throughout through-out the Western country, A Peoria boy revenged himself upon up-on his parents for not taking him to the circus by dropping a plug of tobacco to-bacco into the cotlee pot. M. Gustavo Dore has begun to illustrate il-lustrate .Shakespeare, first "choosing for his pencil "Midsummer Wight's Dream ' nnd "Maebetn." Cincinnati expects to add pig-tail 'backer to its . pork-packer industry, Ohio having gone largely into the culture of the Indian weal. A Kentucky editor is reported to be laboring undev a severe illness, caused caus-ed by fulling into a pond and accidentally acci-dentally swallowing some water. The London Times savs that life is lived so quickly in the Lnited States, that a man who has been five years in public life is almost a veteran. A Xcw York manager advertised for supernumeraries, and had two thousand applications. Two-thirds of the number were respectable young girls. An anonymous correspondent of the Mayor of Heading, J'a., predicts the burning of that city unless an immediate reduction of rents be effected. eff-ected. A negress, speaking of one of her children who was lighter color than the rest, said: "I nebber could bear that brat, 'cause he show dirt so easy." Two Xashua landlords are deducting deduct-ing a large per cent, from the rent bills to operatives whose hours of labor are reduced. Any more such anywhere ? At Harper's Ferry the romantic style is to marry on the bridge. If in alter years, or less, it doesn't become a bridge of sights to the happy couple well and good. The Pittsburgh Lrtuhr learns that Brother Colfax has been tendered the South Bend B;fU- tc edit. He could scarcely have been more indignant if he had been tendered a ''horn." A hen a 3vaus:is coroner wants a little ready money all he lias to do is ih-ive his jury out to the nearest grove of stout-limbed trees and cut down one of the suspected horse thieves. Jime Xyo, no longer a Senator from Nevada, will no longer bail from there. He resumes his residence in .New York city, where ho was formerly former-ly police commissioner in a raid on Mayor Fernando Wood. A sea captain who was invited to confer with a society for evangelizing Africa was asked if'the subjects of the King of Dahomey kept the Sabbath. "Yes," was tho reply, "aud everything every-thing else they lay hands on." A Colorado paper quotes au instance in-stance of the restorative effects of the climate of that State. It savs an Ohio lady, who could not sweep her room at home, after her arrival in Colorado wus able to chase her husband hus-band a mile with a pitchfork. TheGatlin gun was tested at Fort Monroe last week 700 charges being fired in quick time, and with such accuracy that an imaginarv regiment advancing at double-quick, was quite anihilated. |