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Show IMvLlAGS. Western Texas exports gum arabie. St. Liuis is in a pickle on account of a "salt corner." Carson, Nov., is holding cock-fiyhts to pay lor a State university. Ooo hundred and fifty-one deaths from small-pox in St. Louis last week. A certain kind of sausages, niado in Michigan, arc said to intoxicate. One hundred nnd fifteen criminals wero reeeutly buheaded at MaLow, China. Tho hoathen Chinee is taking the pjacc of the colored laborer on the Tosas railroads. Petersburg, Ya., id putting on airs ! over a shipment of Chrirftinas toys to Scotland. Wary Short, of Ilarrisbur.?, Pa., shortened the span of her ma's life with a ehot-gun tho other day. No wvll regulated California "family is without a tlop bowl scooped out of a two hundred aud liliy thousand dollar ruby. A Lexington divine promulgates the startling asertion that tiatau now spends a portion of his time, at least, in heaven. A Terro Ilauto woman has mounted ! her bare-backed Pegasus, and written a poem of a thousand verses on the recent campaign. A little1 darkey in Louisvillo drew $12,500 in the library concert. He says all he asks for is a pair of boots and a bushel of peanuts. An cnihusiabtie Nebraska editor says: "Nine months of i ho year in Nebraska is summer, and tho rest is 5 mighty late in the spring." A South Saginaw lady fell into tbo river on last Saturday while fishing, and was rescued by her husband, whiic in a stato oi' temporary insanity. ' TliP young men of Elgin, Ills., are going crazy over a minister mere wuu is sweet sixteen and as handsome a girl as you often see bunging a pulpit cushion. A famous ro?c tree in tho island of Ceylon is eighty feet in circumference and fifteen feet hiuli. It has been known to bear 00 ruses in full bloom at one time. California is makicg brandy from figs. The liquor is very pleasant, and alter drinking a quart or bo a man will cheerfully staud any amount of abuse from his wife. A Buffalo horse doctor has written to Tiffany & Co., New York, wanting to know what "the freight on a large size solitaire diamond will be from Gotham to Buff." A parent in New Albany, Ind., who has fifteen daughters, has poisoned his dug, taken the locks off the doors, and buog rope ladders over his doot-yard fenco by the dozen, aod still his provision pro-vision bill is as lari-c as ever. "Those who know nice old Mr. Wil-enn Wil-enn nf" ih'fi nlnff . ncr?iin2itv. will re gret to hear that he wa assaulted in a brutal manner last week, but was not killed," is the delicate ray of putting a personal item in a Western paper. Charles E. IIuIsc, of Jcffersonvillc, Ky., attended his laJy lovo who was sL'k with malignant variola, and did in consequence. The papers said he "died for love," but tho disease had every Fymptom of the small-pox. The "Dayton Journil" refer' in complimentary f-rms to lbs lightnjDg-like lightnjDg-like smartness cf Gov. Pinchbaek of Louisiana; "Pinchbaek is fmart and highly educated. He got his education educa-tion in a bank in this town, kept by tho well-known Air. Pharaoh." "Cincinnati "Cin-cinnati Commercial." |
