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Show I'KLI'GS. Not amiss a pretty widow. Life is a succession of uncertainties, endiog in one certainty death. Maiden ladies regard the multitude of weddings now-a-days as simply ou rageous. The day that the little chicken is pleased is the very day that the hawk takes hold ol him. A baby with twelve toes and thirteen thir-teen fingers and thumbs is a nine days' wonder in Bangor, Me. Lid any one ever see flour mado j from wild oats which people eow in I their young days? The first part of tho game of life is cribbage, and the "music of the ', spheres" is bawls. i Victor Hugo's great work, "The ) Terrible Year," contains a violent de- j ' nunciation of President Grant. j Smiggles says that tho most thrill- ! iDg tale he ever listened to was that of a rattlc-snakc. ) Tom Murphy still contends that the 1 nomination of Greeley is a joke, but it : doesn't make him laugh very heartily. Bohemians are so styled on tho principle prin-ciple of htcits a riot lucendo; they drink almost arjyth'mg rather than Bohea. A divorce was granted, a New ITork man, the other day, beoause his wife threw a pillow at him and gave him I tho dyspepsia. A Communist, with both legs out off, was brought before the military tribunal, at Versailles, to receive a sentence of death. Researches in Chinese archives show that tho architeot who designed and tho engineer who built the Great "Wall were wooien. The last Pullman idea for long routes a library c&r with reading room and wntiog desks, bowling alleys, billiard tables and croquet grounds, At a recent spiritual circle, the spirits spir-its being asked if sickness was known in the other world, promptly rapped in reply, "Cholera in-phautom." A certain lawyer at Washington complains that.his appearance is so villainous that he is often mistaken for the criminal under trial. Some of the facetious Grant writers are trying to kill the reform movement by calling it "Dolly Varden." They have got it almost dead. On a very pretty girl saying to Leigh Hunt, "I am very sad, you see," he replied, "Oh, no, you belong to the other Jewish sect; you are very fair, 2 see.1' "Eating cat-pie and calling it venison," veni-son," is the way the Mobile Register, Democratic, defines the unsavory process pro-cess of swallowing Greeley by the Democracy. The present size of gentlemen's stone sleeve-buttons leads us to believe that some one has been uablo to legitimately legiti-mately dispose of an enormous importation import-ation of marble table-tops. The Danbury News says that the majority of women care nothing about suffrage. If the backs of car seats can only bo hollowed out so as to admit of their bustles lapping over, it is enough for them. ' Hud'trouil muuii ltd the p!al form of tho Cooper Institute to address ad-dress the pale faces, ho "chucked off" his coat, flung the garment on the floor, and went through his speech in his shirt-sleeves. Thibodcaus, Li., has a curious system sys-tem of water works. The town lies 1 below the level of the sea, and is pro- tected by a dyke. Over this embank-j embank-j mcnt water is introduced through large syphons, by means of which the streets are sprinkled, the ditches kept clean, and the atmosphere cooled. aWaSBBHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBMaMBBSaiBHBSBM |