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Show Petroleum baa been di.-covcrcd in Nova Scotia, Tho Big Woods of Minn,scta include a region of iS.uoo Hjuure miles. Some pcr.-ODS only call a man their ! friend as an excuse for taking liberties with him. , & It is not strange if ao ass once talked like a man, while so many men talk like use). A citizen of Kentucky rejoices in the sonorous appellation of Titus l'ompon-iu5 l'ompon-iu5 Atticus Bibb. The incomplete Hoosae tunnel is becoming a tavorito resort lor picnic parties in MassacbudcUs. There is a tree at lialeijib, N. C , grown from a slip taken from Napoleon's Napo-leon's grave at tt. Helena. Upwards of 13S.000 coolies have been brought to tho West Indies during dur-ing the last thirty-seven years. A cynical bachelor, in speaking of ladies' ball dresses, says: "They wear but little, but they wear that little long." Ju!iu3 Kollick has been arrested, in Detroit, for beating his wife. She said it was the worst attack of Kollick she ever bad. In the long run, a tried and proved character for truth, honor, and honesty hon-esty is tho best capital and gives the largest interest. A clergyman said, tho other day, that modern young ladies were not daughters of Shem and Ham, but the daughters of Hern and Sham, This is in accordance with the fitness of things: A man named Bacchus sells beer, and Mr. Plugg is tobacconist on Pennsylvania avenue. Mr, Stamp, also, is a clerk in the city postomce, Ex. "Romeo" was a self-made elephant. , He came to this country without a dollar dol-lar in his pocket had nothing in the world but an empty trunk and, at the timo of his death he was worth $40,-000. $40,-000. The governor of Pondicherry, the French settlement on tho eastern coast of the Indian Peninsula, has prohibited dancing in his dominions until the last German soldier evacuates French territory. terri-tory. Among soruo curiosities from Florida, Flori-da, governor Crosby, of Belfast, has a grasshopper that measures five inches in length from bead to the end of bis hind legs, and with a body as big as a Bp arrow. An immense mackerel, probably the largest of its kind over caught, was captured off Norfolk, Va., the other day. The monster was thirty inches in length, nineteen in gir'h, and weighed sisteen pounds. A New York jourci!", in speaking of the ir-'C -Lains of a hand-organ says: "When he played 'Old Dog Tray' we the machine on their bauoches, brushing brush-ing away the tears from their eyes with their fore paws." A prisoner before a recorder in New Orleans was told: "I really don't know whether I had better fine you if 1 or $10; what's your idea about it ?" Prisoner: "Your honor, all I have to plead is that you will not set down aught in malice." But few railroads in the old and populous uuuuuica do iiiiicU more than pay current expenses. A number of important British lines, such as tho North British, the Great Eastern, the Great North of Scotland, the Cornwall, Corn-wall, and others, have never paid any dividend. Bridget came to her mistress and asked for a needlo and thread. "Do you want it tine or coarse ?" asked the lady. "Sure an' I don't know, ma'am," said Bridget. "What do you want it for?" asked the mistress. If jou wiil tell me that, I may know what to give you." "Well, mum, the cook has just towld me to Bthring the beans, 'an sure an' I want a needle an' thrid for that." |