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Show INKLINGS. Throe Ashantco chiefs wcrchutiged for cowardice. New York has over S00 aceiilcntal deaths annually. ''The hyphenated brothers" iM hij halootin for tiiainebc. Connecticut claims never to have lost a citizen by the explosion of a kcroecne am. A Richmond bride was as "beautiful "beauti-ful ua a bust in a fashionublo hairdresser's hair-dresser's window. Vermont brags of a young lady bo tall that her lover puts on an overcoat when he climbs up to kUs her. A hand-organ is the latest excavation excava-tion at Pompeii. The aiieiunta had their torments as well as tho moderns. mod-erns. Young lady (at the post office "If I don't get a letter by this mail, X want to know what he was doing Sunday, that's all." The Cincinnati Commercial reports that Deacon Richard Smith is in Southern Illinois rending the bowels ol the earth in search of lead. The Philadelphia Trfcgraph heads leading article with the words, "No More Submission," and swears that rive cents is enough to pay for a ride in a horse-car. A Southern writer describes scrub-aristocracy scrub-aristocracy as those who.having risen from a stale of obscurity and poverty to wealth, boot-liek those above them, while they scorn tho honest and poor. Master Frank Burt, of West port. Conn., drew a danger and threatened to use it on his teacher, Miss Ksther St. John Chapmnn, recently. Rumor says that young Burt's fattier administered admin-istered a stern lesson to his erring son. An undertaker named Porter has aroused the antipathy of people in Lawrence, Mass. Among their accusations accu-sations is one that he learns from physicians where de:iths are about to occur, and then sends his canla to the family. At an Alabama fire, the other day, the ladies turned out and carried water and helped the merchants to remove goods. Nineteen newspapers in the North will copy the foregoing item, and say something smart about "lire belles.". Ex. Josh Billings says: "There iz but phew tilings on the face of this earth more worthless than a poodle, and yet i am glad there h a poodle, lor if there was not there izj some people who would'nt have enny object in living, and have nothing to" luv." A man in Fayette County, Penn., read in an almanac that his feet could be kept warm by lining his booUi iith cayenne pepper. Ho doesn't feel much like walking now, but he sas he would like "to find the man what put that in the almanac." alma-nac." The Rev. Mr. Jones, of Union Grove, Wis., is to be tried in an ecclesiastical eccle-siastical court for being bankrupt. Mr. Jones followed the business of a miller on week days, and preached on Sundays. Last summer he purchased large quantities of wool and wheat on credit, and failed to meet his obligations. obliga-tions. The new city library in Paris to replace re-place that which was destroyed by the Communists was opened on January Jan-uary :l. It is in the Rue Sevignc,and contains 23,000 volumes and 15,000 engravings. About S,000 of the books and 12,(K)0 of the engravings were given. M. Cousin is the librarian. |