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Show IMlLOGS. A ttuiale bill-poster does a thriving business in New York. The police service in France coats about $0, (XX), 000 a year. Mrs. Morrissey parades Saratoga in a $1,000 black polonaise. 1 A copy of a Chinese work in 6,100 ; volumes is for sale in Pekin. There are now thirty-eight woman preachers in the United States, j Seven thousand girls are employed in the silk factories of New Jersey. A colored youth in Baltimore pawned his wooden leg for a pint of whibky. San Angeles has three daily newspapers, news-papers, five weeklies, and two monthlies. Josh Billing aaya, "Tew enjoy a good reputaitiun, giv publicly and steal privately." There was not a single case of suspension sus-pension in six of the public schools in Chicago last year. Little Rock's leading phrenologist id in the chain-gang, feeling the bumps of bowlders with a pick. One Sunday the first of the shooting shoot-ing Beason th number of dogs taken out of Paris by train was 2,200. Mrs.Gordon, of theStockton Leader, says that all sorts of poisonous berries are palmed ofl on country editors as wild coflee. Ecclesiastical property representing a value of $90,000,000 has been sold since 1S67 by order of the Italian Government. The British beer-seller puts 250 grains of salt in each gallon of his. beer, and the authorities have taxed i him $150 for the privilege. A man who bought a cabbage in Washington, the other day, was surprised sur-prised to 6nd it hollow at the heart, and a black snake ensconced therein. there-in. Harry Meiggs, the Peruvian Railway Rail-way King, has immense grants of mineral lands, and ii supposed to be beyond the reach of want with $44,-000 $44,-000 000. A Chicago fientleman has sued the Times for $100,000 damage to his character. The Times asks him to knock off the cyphers, take a dollar, and acll it square. It Mr. Beecher ever had a choice, he has one no lenger. ' He must at once sue Frank Monlton for slander; and himself force the issue in the courts, or else -- -. N. Y. Sun. Mr. Yore, of North Carolina, is said to have eloped last week with his mother-in-law. When last seen, she was leading and he followed, heels first, at the other end of the rope. The editor- of a religious paper is maa because be undertook to eteite that Mr. Spurgeon, in his "Sword and Trowell," said so and so, and the printer called it, "Shirt and Towell." An unknown man rusted into a house at Boston on Tuesday evening, threw pepper into the eyes of two women, threw one of them out of the window, and escaped, with a little money found in the house, before 'hs police could get hands on bin. A little boy who was nearly starved by a stingy uncle (his guardian), with whom he lived, meeting a lank greyhound grey-hound one day in the street, was asked by his guardian what made the dog so thin. After retiecting, the little fellow replied, "I suppose he lives with his uncle." The Rev. Dr. West, lately of Danville, Dan-ville, Ky., avers that the Rev. Dr. Swine of Chicago is "simply a pantheistic pan-theistic Ariin of the Eutychian type, a monophysite, a monothelite, and does not preach the Apangnsmal Brilliance of Godhead's glory, but is a Macedonian.' |