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Show I'KLIGS. Saturn has lost a ring. Kentucky gives barbecues. Donver calls for a library. Blind men should get married. The Andes sink an inch a year. Chattanooga wants a fair ground. Memphis ia infested with burglars Wolves play havoo with cattle in Georgia. A Salt Lake city notice rooms to let, in the yard. Strauss's " Kadelzky Waltz : has netted him $2,000. The importation of foreign books is increasing yearly. It is estimated $100,000 aro daily bet on tho elections. Negro outrages in tho south arc called Boutwellisms. A western jury returned a verdict of "justifiable suicide." (Jhas. Mathews will shortly reappear j on the London stago. A noble Detroit lad has sold fly-paper enough to buy a harp. An cxchaDgo calls Chicago grain-speculators grain-speculators a corner lot. Austin, Texas, talks of bridging tho Colorado at a cost of 5500,000. A colored sportman in Florida bagged bag-ged nine full grown alligators in ono day. Senator Hamlin of Maine says general gen-eral Banks is a "poor miserable fellow." fel-low." George Washington's wedding ring is still preserved. It is of gold, with a topaz. Home, since she became the capital of United Italy, is both dearer and dirtier. An Albany butcher is (J4 years of age, but wields the cleaver with the grace of youth. Americans are at Ems in great crowds, in fact the Brother Jonathan element is the most conspicuous. One of tho Paris hotels, anxious to secure American patronage, advertises "fish balls and buckwheat cakes at all hours." It takes tho combined efforts of two able-bodied baggage smashers to properly pro-perly disintegrate a Sarataga truck as now constructed. London omnibus drivers arc combining combin-ing for mutual protection. One of their chief grievances is a vexatious police espionage. A Mississippi ben has got herself into trouble by acting on fourteen eggs and hatching out twenty-four chickens, with seven eggs to spare. The Smiths had a dinner at Pittsburg Pitts-burg a while ago. The first toast was "Pocahontas Heaven bless her for saving the Smiths to this country." A womau in Camanchc, Iowa, worked in the harvest field on Saturday, Satur-day, was delivered of kicking and squalling triplets Saturday night, and sat up to her regular meals onSundor-- A professional tea taster in England recently met with an accident on a railway by which his senso of taste was impaired, thereby injuring his business capacity, and a jury awarded him 1,000 damages. |