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Show INKLINGS. - I Jeli BiUines is worth $2.50,0)0. Tue reward ot bad apeliiug. Tlie Xew Yirk abuses Grant , for wearing a shocking biid gtovepiie hat. Henry Ward Beecher receives $100 apiece tor his weekly articles in the New York U-.bj.r. A la rt lord young wuinan exclaimed the other day, "I liavo excurted three times this summer." At the age of 17 Mark Smith played play-ed 'utility" parts x-, the Old Bowery, New York, at $j a week. Grant has set the fashion of red noses at Long Branch, and alLuoot everybody thore wears one. The Baltimore boys commit suicide by tumbling from the roofs ot houses, where tbny have been Hying their kites. In Germany a prize amounting to about $75D has been oilered for the best hymn in honor of Prince Bismarck. Bis-marck. A gentleman in Nevada County has made a few barrels of well-fluvor-ed brandy from the berries ot the mauzaniia bush. Camphorated alcohol applied to the incipient errupiion with the fingers fin-gers three times a day is said to be a euro cure for boils. A Milwaukee man stated that he really needed some active, regular exercise. A friend suggested that he mix his own cock-tails. Tlie next subject for a cartoon Three thousand warlike Christian gushers valorously charging one poor "heathen," and the heathen not vanquished. van-quished. Brooklyn Argus, The mushroom crop of Ireland is very large this year, which, according to the saws of old women, forebodes a cheap and plentiful year of food, little sickness and a great increase of births. - - - "Do you keep matches?" asked a wag of a Hawley grocer. ,,"0h, yes, all kinds," was the reply. "Well, I'll take a trotting match," said the wng. The grocer immediately handed hand-ed him a lx)x of pills. Here is a description of a mean church, which has a moral in it: After tlie old pastor died, the deacons went about for a $250 minister, and you can get about as much minister for I hat price as you can get psalm tunes out f a file. A carrier pigeon, let loose in Eliza- : btth, N. J., at 10.20 a.m., a few days 1 since, reached its home in Philadelphia Philadel-phia at 11 a.m., flying the distance of 70 miles in 40 minutes, beating the best railroad time between the same points by an hour and a half. . A grandmother, writing to the London Times, says that base-ball is not an American game, but an ancient English one, - long auo discarded dis-carded in favor of cricket. There is a record ot the Prince of Wales playing play-ing at the game in the year 174S. Tho parliamentary appropriation for educational purposes in Great ' Britain the present year is about $t, oiK),000. It is anticipated that by ' the middle of next year England anu Wales will be provided with schools ! for 4, 000,000 children. ' "Put him otit '" ' "hang him !" ! ' squelch him !" "mob him !" wero S"ine of the pious exhortations ot the jineek and lowly Christians of Plymouth Ply-mouth Church, when Moulton rose up to defend himself against the aspersions cast upon him. Ladies joined in the cries and hisses, and but for tlie police, Moulton would nave Butlered severely. Plymouth Church used to gush beautifully about '"free. ; speech." |