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Show LKLI?fCiS. C. Dickons, jun., won't visit us. Dyspepsia is what ails Mark Twain. Boaton is invaded by an army of inventors. in-ventors. Pullman sleeping cars aro being provided pro-vided with safes. x Chicago announces that already half her hydrnnts aro frozen. Georgia and Florida are cursing the number of bones in new shad. A man in London recently left $1,-250,000, $1,-250,000, which no heir claims, Texas has started a broom factory in order tooutllank Iv'ow England. Tho siual!-pox has slopped cotton picking iu a North Carolina county. Since the Boston fire. Mansard bonnets bon-nets are not worn by red headed ladios. New York tailors arc hard at work on a new kit:d of bullet-proof garment. Ben. Wade has n hnndsome daugh ter who wants to marry a poor carpeL-ter. carpeL-ter. The Boston "Banner of Light-' was the Grat paper lighted by tho Boston fire. A Vermont man has this year shot seven Inrgc eagles, which sold at $10 each. Tho New York "Herald'' aptly mils Theodore Til tou "tho aoothbg syrup of Syntax-" Two hundred different almanacs for 1ST3 havo been brought out by a f ingle Paris publisher. General John A. Dix and Thurlow Weed draw pensions as soldiers ot 1812, the latter as a lifer. Crab apples go into one end of a mill at Trenton, N.J., nnd come out of the other labelled "Bordeaux." Despite the large amount of rubber goods de3troycd by the Boston fires, stakes remain at twcniy-two cents. iney navw a piaue i"i mo n'" iced drinks at Newark, which they humorously call a 'inpior ieo factory." fac-tory." A purveyor of dofra meat for sausago making has actually been arrested in Toronto with a carcass in Lis po;eL-sion. po;eL-sion. People who use a candle for hair dressing should bo careful to rcmovo all vestige of tho wick b:f'ore going into company. The Brooklyn "Egle" calls loudly upon Henry U ard Beeohcr cither to deny the YYoodbuU scandal or bring a suit for libel. The people of Jasper county, Miss., recently vottd again: a railroad lest the locotuctivo should scare the deer out of the county. Tho Raleigh "ScndDel" has been keeping its reader:; in an agtiy oi suspense sus-pense by publishing the President's message as a serial. A convict hung biuiseu at i'ene-mara, i'ene-mara, N.Y., iho other day, and bandaged ban-daged tbo rnpo wiili a towel so it shouldn't bark his neck. A Livingstone county, N.Y., man is the last individual to stono a glycerine can. In absence of anything else to sit on the jury u.d chairs. Ten persons in England havc d;J lately leaving moio llun five millions of dollars. The pcor relatione are smiling through their tears, Mrs. Peters, of Liurol Run, Pa., put her cir out of a car window to listen for an approaching bridge, and tho tattered remnants ol that ear now j flutter as a warning Mgnal from one ot its spars. |