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Show VARIETIES. What fruit is the most visiunary? The apple of the eye. Capital punishment has been totally abolished in Switzerland. Baltimore's new bell for the City Hall weighs over 6,2V2 pounds. A company of Chinese have opened a washhouse in the city of Washington. Washing-ton. Danbury Xeics; We will accede to a Third Term il guaranteed against a Fourth. Murder will out Very good: but who is Will Out, and why should he be murdered? A Williamsport man boasts that in the lust twenty years he has made 3,i"2 coffins. The Japane.se make boats of paper. But our western rivers are covered with tow-boata. Bailey, of the Danbury X-irS; saw two mastitis at a depot in England which he took for freight cars. Barnum offers $-50,000 for tho restoration re-storation of Charlie Ross, on condition condi-tion that he be allowed to show him. You can examine a mule's hoof to ascertain its weight, if you want to, but we don't advise it. N'orristown Herald. A western paper announces the death of a lady celebrated for the "purity of her character and complexion." com-plexion." Another minister has fallen this time in Pniladelphia. He trod upon a peach skin. His statement was very brief. Lord Byron ia reported to have said "that he would rather have a nod from an American than a anufl" box from an emperor." Who is that foreign lady with a very low cut dress? asked a bystander at a party. "That is Mrs. Chemisofl a Hussian lady." A little female beggar in Detroit tells people that her father is sick, and that her mother "hasn't but three peanuts in the house." The question now agitating the Secretary of the Treasury, at Washington, Wash-ington, is: Shall a man remain in olhce with his wife's mother? A new motive power is announced, by the operation of machinery without with-out the application of heat by which water is transferred into vapor. There is a postmaster in Illinois who draws a salary of $1 per annum. His object in seeking the office was to get married and raise a family. The latest journalistic rumours are that Tilton is going on the editorial' staff of the Chieago Tribune, and John Swioton on the Cincinnati Times. "When I put my foot down.JI'll have you to understand," said Mrs. Nojoker, "that there's something there." On investigation, it was found to be No. 11 shoe. "What can we do," inquire the Methodist ministers, "to make Sabbath Sab-bath schools more interesting?" And an unregenerated publican suggests, "Take the boys out iiahing." . A merm.in has been seen on the north of Ireland. He is just like a man, except the lower part of hia body, which appeared t? be striped and of a blue aud white color. Pinch back, of Louisiana, is seven parts white and one part black, but he calculates that the one black part is worth more to him as a Southern statesman than the seven white ones. A female mob in Oxford street, London, attempted to tear the widow of a baker to pieces who committed suicide, it is said on account of jealousy. jeal-ousy. The police had to prevent the execution of the programme. Speaker Blaine concludes that we are "a nation of borrowers." Still we are not so exclusively a nation of borrowers that we would be indifferent to a good opportunity to lend Blaine. Brooklyn Argus. Milton, the blind author, was -one day asked by a friend of female education, edu-cation, if he did not intend to instruct his daughter in the different languages. lan-guages. " No, sir," replied Milton, "one tongue is sufficient for a woman." |