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Show INKLINGS. Miss Adole Spitzidcr is a leading banker in Munich. Australia will soon manufacture as well as produce wool. Tho Washington gallows has received receiv-ed a fresh coat of paint. Fannin county, Texas, boasts of thousands of wild pigeons. Chinamen are to bo imported for consumption in the lead mines. Two gentlemen from China were wedded to two ladies from Ireland in St. Louis last week. Leavenworth girls won't go outriding outrid-ing now, because tho trees along the roads arc so naked. It ppcaka well for Mexico's future that her people are crying for railroads instead of revolution. The voting season being ovor, 800 laborers have been dismissed from the Philadelphia navy-yard. There are so manyunoxploded bombi in tho ground in and around Paris that gardening there is dangerous. Tho signal office on the summit of Pike's peak will be the highest ofhoo within tho gilt of the Prostdent, I Louisville debtors hive themselves, and hang out a small-pox flag as a preventive of the greater ill duns. Florida is already being 6ooded with those who design hiding from northern snows in southern orange orohards. Cincinnati has unsheathed its butcher butch-er knife, and the Btioking campaign I against unfortunately fat swine is fairly opened. A fow nights since, a thief, carrying a carpet bag, entered an Eransville church and stole the alms-box, but it happoned to be empty. A little concentrated lye carefully rubbed on the fcot of rata prevents them from annoying you by traveling in the wainscoating o' nights. The Chicago "Times" asks "How can we escape firo?" The New York "Commercial" answers, "The Gospel offers you every encouragement." A kind paront wants to know the best way to raise boys. If the boy is small, place your right hand on the rear of his indispensables, and lift I An enthusiastio student of zoology has been supping on Welsh rabbit for ! a week, in order to ascertain whether nightmares were Bubjeot to tho hone , disease. A man in Indiana, who has been exhibiting himself as a living skeleton, is growing fat, and 6nds himself threatened threa-tened with starvation because his occupation occu-pation is gone. The "Herald of Life" (Adventist) finds evidence in Scripture that the epizootic "is but another omen of the oomiog day, and another effort of God to call attention to it." Oliver Wendell Holmes says: "If all the cities of the world were reduced to ashes, you'd have a new set of millionaires mil-lionaires in a couple of years or so, out of the trade in potash- Now is tho time to harvest bean poles, to Bave them from the late frosts. They should be taken up carefully, to preserve the sprouts for the next season's sea-son's growth. Bean poles have done better this year than potatoes. That was a very tenderhearted man who, on being told that his wife, who had left the house only an hour before, was drowned, and that her body was found a mile or so below, said, "She must have floated down quite lively I" |