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Show 1XKLIXGS. 1 The bet cure for dirt ii a water-cure, water-cure, Miinic in the St.T.ouib'pulHc scliools codU; $S,000 a year. Pitt-burgh horse cars aro furnished with Bibles, but conductors "knock dowu" just na much aa ever. . The firot criminal trial in Mexico by jury nan occurred in Tam:iulii:i.s. The new law, however, only applies in ( that one State. The proposition to. annex TCbxle Island to one of the outlying wanb of Boston excitcri no little opposition in theSprague Commonwealth. An impertinent fellow wants to know if you ever sat down to tea where skimmed milk was on the tablo without bcii'.g asked,- "Do you take cream?" A California paper, 'having obtained a new subscriber, records the startling start-ling fart in a half-column article, headed "Still Another! Our Course Endorsed by the People!" The following is a copy of a notice displayed in a Held in South London: "Ladies and gentlemen are requested not to steal turnips. Other ptirsom, if detected, will be prosecuted." "m A man who was trying to dead-beat the Lake Shore Road by playing deaf and dumb, was asked by the conductor conduct-or how long he had been so, aud he replied: "Vby, man, I was born this way!" A Massachusetts mayor, whose salary sal-ary is but ilM per year, has delivered an inaugural address twelve columns long, and he siU up nights to see that the freshet doesn't carry ofl'thc mill-dam. mill-dam. Brooklyn Anjus. Potatoes, when crown from the need, improve in size and quality for four or live seasons, and in four or five more seasons they wilt begin to degenerate unless care is taken to select se-lect the tubers from the seed. The most confiding woman lives in Frovidenco. She went to an auction, and, knowing the prevalence of thieves at such places, askeii a nice-looking nice-looking man to tuke care of her pocket-book, containing $80. He ia still taking care ol it. The pay of the Congressional pages ia only S2 per diem, and yet the House, with that self-sacrifice which always has characterized its legislation legisla-tion when the interests of its members were not jeopardized, have resolved to turn over a new leai auu pay me uoyu less. Y. World. The house in which the great Joaquin Joa-quin Miller used to live at Shasta, Cal., is to be sold at auction. If we could buy this pilgrim shrine, this Delphian vale, this Mecca of themind, we would have about all in this world that wc particularly care to own. Louisville Courier-Journal. |