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Show KKLIXGS. Two hundred and fifteen Granges in Tennessee. Neal Dow is delivering temperance lectures in Scotland. There are nine Blondins walking ropes, and all claim to be the Blond-in. Blond-in. A wealthy New York lady supports eitflitpoor lamiiiea at au expeu.se of $10,000 a year. If the Boston papers of the last few daya could bo steeped they would yield a barrel of tea. There aro over twenty defaulting county treasurers in Ohio, and one has just been sent to the penitentiary'. West Point car-rings are the latest. lat-est. They are mmle of buttons similar simi-lar to those worn by tho natty cadets. Xcw York has determined to suppress sup-press gambling, and the chief of poljee will lose half of his perquisites. perquis-ites. Tammany turning its back on Fernando Fern-ando is a truly edifying spectacle. It reminds us ot a coal scuttle rclusuig to hold a poker. Graphic. The young man of Bay City, Mich., who tried to marry Anna Dickinson, lias recovered sufficiently to be interviewed. Gen. Baxter of Rutland, Vt., comes out in a card denyinc that his icllow citizens have placed a costly monument monu-ment over his remains. Slirewsburg, Vt., is examining into the manufacture of butter from mutton mut-ton tal!ow, and if it finds that the industry in-dustry will pay, will pur-auot. It is a matter of surprised comment in Kentucky papers that the new Logislsiture drinks cm whisky than any that, lias ever been seen in Frankfort. Frank-fort. Recitation in senior anatomy: Prof. Mr. Smith, how many bones are there in the wrist, and what is their arrangement? Mr. iS. Fight, Sir; two pair, four each. "Owing to tire absence of the editor, edit-or, thU week's issue will be found unusually spicy," says tho office devil of the Crctttou T tines, who was left in charge for a few days. The St. Louis Democrat advises Sam Bowles, of th .Springfield Republican, "to rive the plaintiff in that libel Buit a cold potato."- But Sam prefers to "make it hot" for him. The tenor Capmil has ft bowl of oatmeal gruel made for him every night before retiring, into which he squeezes a lemon, and then washes his face with this mixture. Philadelphia can now boast of having hav-ing fitty B.iptist churches the last one having been organized a few days agD. It is said that no other city in the world am boast of so many. A Hartford Puritan protests against the Sundity burse-cars, as likely to lead to more cars, then Sunday 6teamer excursions, and ultimately to the destruction of Hartford by tiro and brimstone. The Sabbath schools of Madison, Ind., are made to "draw" by advertising adver-tising an exhibition ofstuQed animals, ind it is a pleasant sight to sea two hundred giod little children grouped around the case con turning the wildcat. wild-cat. The New York Times (Administration) (Administra-tion) thinks that "law baa dono all that it can for the negroes, and the sooner they set about securing their future for Uiomselves the better it will be for them, and their descendants." descend-ants." "Fellow Traheilers," said a colored preacher, "ef I had been eatin' dried apples for a week, an' den took to tlrinkin' for a monf, I couldn't feel more swell'd up dau I am dis minit wid pride an' vanity at secin' such full tendance har dis evenin'." A New Hampshire farmer went to a Thursday evening prayer meeting last week, and was so conscience-stricken conscience-stricken that ho returned home and knocked in the head of six cider barrels. bar-rels. They say that if ho will pay some of his old debts standing for the last ten years they will believe it to be genuine. |