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Show rVK-LIJVGS. In Southern Kansas they ocoasion" ally report a horse-thief as "lost." A Chinese capitalist proposes to buy a whole block of houses in Wichita, Kan. KauBas ethnologists are discussing whether the Kaw Indiana are related to the Crow tribe. Kansas reports its fruit trees in full bloom, notwithstanding a three days' 6oow storm last week. Boston dealinos to play a chess match with New Britain on account of the expense of telegraphing. The rata in Webster City, Iowa, grow largor than oats, and it is said one blow from a rat's tail will split a oellar door. A southern editor Bays that mint julips are coming, and they won't ho crow ued out by a press of other matter, mat-ter, either. Eastern advices state that a recent hitch wind blew down a large sign-board in Rhode Island, seriously injuring several sev-eral farms which lay under it. A missing man waB lately advertised for. and described as havine a Roman nose. He won't be found. Suoh a nose as that will never turn up- A sentimental writer says, "It is hard to Bay good-bye." We doo't think bo It is easier to say "good-bye" three times than "ichthyosaurus" once. A small boy in Massachusetts has been detected packing away large numbers num-bers of snow balls in the attic He explained that he wanted thorn on tho 4th of July. It is pleasing to know that tho most of the muskrats that built slight houses last fall, thereby luring the woatherwise to go "short" on ooal, are boina found frozen to death. Budding noses havo only been prevented pre-vented from bursting into full bloom by the tardy season. They haven't been cultivated all winter with such When you see a dead man in the road, with long hair, no underclothing, and his boots run over at the heel, you may be quite confident it is a newspaper newspa-per man, murdered for his money. A man in Caribou found a horse-hair in an egg. This is worse than the usual boarding house fare. Egas have hitherto boon considered sale, but if these desert us, whither Bhall we flee? Corebro spinal meningitis is a tough one for telegraphers to get hold of on the wires, A 8ioux City ohap tried it the other day, and this is what he had when he got through: Carabo Sponoer Menagerie. A olairvoyant trio, two women and a man, have been traveling in the south, pretending te cure epizooty by the "lay inn on of hands." They practiced on a Kentucky mule the other day, and the firm have since dissolved. A man laid down to pleasant dreams in a vacant lot in Galveston, the other dayto sleep off a drink. H o was astonished aston-ished upon waking and finding a two-story two-story house built over him. That's the way they aro building up in Texas. A Danbury man Imagined himself a hen, and while under the influence of that conceit, sat down on a dozen oggs, and hatched out an Italian sun set and a circus poster. His wife removed the debris with the bald end of a broom. OBITUARY, Oh, Shack Nasty, thou hast loft ua, No more horses wilt thou steal; But 'twas Gillem that bereft us, He can all our sorrows hoal. First we thought it was old Schonchin, Then we heard 'twas Scar-faced Charles. But the latest news, Shack Nasty, Say 'tis you have quit earth' b snarls. Gone hut not forgotten. Friends of the family are invited to attend, "covered oarriagos for all who wear gloves: |