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Show KKLIXGS. A Jersey City tavern id names! "Stop a leetle." Beecher begins to wear "the look of a lired worker. ' ' The fashionable virUiu for next winter will be economy. A goose, known to be 70 ye.ir oU, died recently in Svoiland. Oil City, l'enn., ha elected lur its Mayor an oleaginoutj Ali icim. Cheshire, Conn., -Ixiastd of 11 tU.y Juore than t"o iiniidred ye;a uld. Western etlitors are throwing t.iofe "buttered water-nieloiw" at Unuz Brown again. French join mils comp'ain that Entjlanil buys up all the besL fruit I . and vegetables. Kobert, Toombs avers tha t tl ie building of an ox-eart is among the lost arte of Georgia. Opera goers in Gotham want the ladies to take oil' their hats, ur el.je j lower theui in some way. Somebody has discovered that the ! Italian soil and climate are admirably j fitted for the culture of tea. " A Minnesota Teuton has won fame ' and So by drinking ten glares of 1 lager beer in two uiiimlcs and a lialf. Reversible Elizabethian ruilles are the latest. They are worn with any costume and are lined with light colored col-ored silk. A man nt Muscatine, paid $0 for the first scrape in a barber's new chair. A certain kind of person and hia money, you know. A Bridgeport, Conn., telegrapher has devised a method of recording musical notes by electricity, sending a treble tunc over a single wire. A French resident of Carondolet, Mo., ninety-nine years old, is credited with the paternity of a series of children child-ren ranging in age from seventy-five to six. A Little Rock journalist , who touchingly alluded to death as the j "ruthless rider ot the pale horse." 1 has had his salary increased to $-.50 per week. Lehigh County, Fn., is excited by the announcement of a foot-race for Si 00 a side between two contestants aged respectively seventy-seven and eighty-two. A house, containing three rooms, in Quincy, Mass., was recently found to be inhabited by sixteen persons, a man and his wife, eleven children and three boarders. Man power is so scarce in North Charleston, N. H.f that a bevy of ladies, in view of the situation, turned turn-ed out one day last week and cleared the stones form one of the principal streets. Dickens's works have been decided too immoral for general reading, by the managers of the Vermont State School Library. These are tho kind of men who attend funerals in green kid gloves. An Oswego paper says: "Seventy-one "Seventy-one umbrellas were stolen from the Baptist church in Oswego one rainy night last week." This proves nothing noth-ing save that Baptists dislike being "sprinkled." A New Orleans street ear driver was hauled off his car the other day mid shot lor running over a terrier dog. They wouldn't have said anything about an old man or two,' but the dog was valuable. "Fifteen hundred skilled mechanics" mechan-ics" thing of that wandering about Boston streets to-day with nothing to do. Boston l'ran.icript. To be fol-i fol-i lowed by the sad sequel of "nothing to wear and nothing to eat." ! Frank Fixxey, for oolisly and furiously fur-iously dogging Fanny Pentnn, was fined fifty-five dollars, at Fredcnia, Florida. Finney was a fishy fellow and Fanney was a fickle, flirting, female, fe-male, fond of fun and frivolity. j A tax collector in Vermont was be ! set by two highwaymen the other ; night, but he snapped his goose-quill j toothpick, appeared to present a revolver, re-volver, and they ran aw:y and left , forty yards of silk in a satchel. The following verso from an Illinois Ill-inois camp-meeting hymn drew tears from the eyes of thousands of dwellers in tents during the camp season: My min ' is snt on thnt far-off lan-l, Wnore thore's heaps of salt and 3 1 roots of rold : Don't cit in my way, yin .tnrul man, For I'm on my journey homo. |