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Show lMCLLXGS. MiLLen MiAjiitbli.11 lire a new thing in niml society. Jorwy City I111.1 -a company of Ciiuccr'a tiitunU. If you t;ivc n hoiktivy present tluti'L let it m irippery. Bulkuap is the owner of the finest beul in Wiwhingtoii. 'J'lie Oriental Club of Springficltt lias itn iijiplu dumpling fet once a week. Fish tlown't seem to gut nlonff swimmingly. "cw York. Commercial Aditriixer. Siiys the Boston W; Society in Wnshington Is tloting in Firth b;tlls. Have one? At a ball in St. Iiuis the principal fenture was a pound of pepper judiciously judici-ously sprinkled 511 tho floor. Chairman on the committee of expenditure ex-penditure in the Treasury Department Depart-ment -Sypber. That's good. A Kinur T nil inn trirl ifl SID trine in opera in San Francisco. From a squaw she has become a uquawler. Tbe Mayor of New Bedford, Mara., gets $00 a vear salary. He docs not believe thai' riches make happiness. Chicago is to have another religion! journal. The development of religious religi-ous sentiment in Chicago verges on rashness. John Smith is no more. He perished per-ished nobly while endeavoring to save bis stock from a burning barn at Swansea, Yt. A Fond du Lao clergyman preached a sermon on "Tbe rich man in bell what be saw there, and what he said when he came out." An old fogy in Philadelphia object to paying a gas bill of $ IS, for the frivolous reason that there are no burners in tbe bouse. A police justice in Chicago was Houiuwhat astonished when a vagrant being tried before him counted out ti&.OOO in greenbacks. The times must bo sully out of joint when it is announced that "tbe New Haven Clock Works can run only eight hours a day." Chicago is abend again, having a Black Maria drawn by four wbito horses and driven by a nobby policeman police-man wearing awliite hat. An Ohio farmer strung a loaf of "heavy" bread on a rope and made his wife wear it around her neck, and now he hits to bake bis own bread. Mr?. Lucy Langdon Newell, of Al-frtxl. Al-frtxl. Me., born in 177ii, and who was expected to figure in the I'hiLidelpbia celebration as a ceutemiiahst, dial a few days ago. "War," said John Stuart Mill, "is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things, The decayed and degraded state of national feeling that thinks, nothing worth a war is worse," Two rival ministers in Buluth arc cutting down the marriago fee to almost al-most nothing, one performing the ceremony for three shillings and the other for half a pound of tobacco. The tomb of Napoleon HI. in England Eng-land was again covered with flowers in magnificent profusion and variety on tbe recurrence of one of Eugenie's fete days. The widow did not ap pear. It is asserted that WilliamM. Tweed is tbe person tn whom the people of Massachusetts owe the completion of the Honsar. tunnel, having advanced 4s"(IH,imj to the contractors for that purpose. M'omen are said to have stronger attachments than men. It is evinced in little things. A man is often attached at-tached to an old hat; but did you ever know of ft woman having at attach-: attach-: ment for an okl 1-onnct '.' A Pi l le.hu rg woman supjwrts her husband by the sale of ginger pop. We cannot resist tbe inclination to commend the example of this noble woman to tho wives of those unfortunate unfor-tunate men whom tho panic has rtirown out of employment. |