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Show INKLINGS. l'.tii (- w.mt to U' governor of "m. Cilj n Tnwnt ivntcuipUitos vuy.!- ivuii'1 the world. Li'.nvnw' sth li:v a d'X'tor th;it dxL-sns lkv ih: M.u-y Walker. iiuv 1 I'J the I'l'pc li-w rci-civt.il 17n,i.M(M fnm in t)io wny of IVkr's pel i. Xt-'.tilv -l.iXO jmiiiU ,-tinlv Cierni;in in the p'iUu- srluK.U nf Chicago, and :ts many nun1 drink lager. The Due tie Iiivie thinks Mac-Mahon Mac-Mahon L holtiin a plai-e for the com-hig com-hig king I iv jirr-arr.mgement. Charle.-tnii u"4ro;is inke money hy (Mtrliin- h.U'ks" and frying out their h wiiich .n Ihr greasing har- IKliS. Five I'linuirs workctl fo-ur hours to gL't into a Connivlu-Lit Ktstotlicc,and were rewarded with eighteen threc-ccnttaitiji.-i. A Canadian Kiper .suggest-; that Whallry lu- been sent over here to ei'UiiU rl'.ilanro the sending of Train to England. -V Verininit irenlleman is just raising rais-ing hi.s eciiui crop of hair, after guiug bald U-n years. He :wcrilCi it to his "night-ca'n." Tlieiw.pidaiion of Si. Louis is increasing in-creasing fast that the children are set to daiH'ing on the horns of wild cows lo keep' it down. Those who have recently seen Captain Cap-tain Jack, deny that he is going into a decline. Tlirv say he looks dirty and greasy and V as fat as a well fed A li.-t of drinking saloons in the city of Milwaukee covers three pages of the city directory, nnd 400 barrels of beer arc dealt out daily to the city's inhabitants. A Xcbraska man imagined himself a potato bug, and treated himself as 1 he would one of those insects. He is now planted where theydon'tusual- ; lygruw potatoes. i A Knglish clergyman whojhas been indulging in mining speculations was arrested recently for vagrancy, thus allonling an example for American ministers to slum. A negro in Montgomery, Ala., who was brought up for contempt of court, , said: ''I didn't mean to whistle; dat wlhstlc went oll'dat time half-cocked." lie was discharged. The American rcstaiuantat Vienna lias clused its doors. Messrs. Jewett ifc Tracy, who fought the battle bravely, brave-ly, were obliged to succumb to the loree of circumstanced which bad trade had brought about. Avon, Me., hasn't any artesian wells as yet, but it has instead a dropsical drop-sical patient who has been tapped regularly three times a month since April, yielding over thirty-thrco gallons gal-lons thus far. The city of St. Louis is to vote on the question whether the domestic dog, the rooting pig, or wallowing hog, or the rooster, or the cow, shall wander through the streets to tho disadvantage of pedestrians nnd the terror of luaming babiea, An Irish gentleman of n mechanical mechani-cal turn took off his gas meter to repair re-pair it himself, and put it on again upside, down. At the end of the quarter quar-ter it was proved with .arithmetical correctness that the gas company owed him eight dollars and ninety-Bcvcn ninety-Bcvcn cents. Here Is another evidence hn, ea(c ingmcat in hot weather is dangerous. danger-ous. A man was lately employed in Eighty-sixth street in blasting rocks, and was warned to get out of the way as a blast was to be set ofl. He stopped to eat a piece of meat, the explosion occurred, and a piece of stone struck him on tho head and caused his death. "James Jenkins," gakj a school; master to his pupil, "what is an avov-age? avov-age? " "A tiling, sir," answered the scholar promptly, "that hens lay eggs on." "Why do you say that, you silly boy?'' replied the pedagogue. peda-gogue. "Because, sir," said the youth, "I heard a gentleman say the other day as a hen would lay oh an. average, a hundred and twenty eggs a year." |