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Show IXKLIXGS. A negro in Svantmlt, Gi., was I killed by drinking too much butter- milk. How pleasant it is to know just who ia the prettiest ot all our pretty girls. The dentUt'a profession must be a lucrative one be makca bis money by acbers. The Boston JW suggests that Gen. Grant is not the author of Shake- gpeare'a plays. J Some Japanese youths are to be sent to Germany to learn the art of E brewing beer. i A competing hotel out West says, v generously, of another, that it atunds 1 without arrival. Iron ore, of good quality, has been found within seventy miles of Melbourne, Mel-bourne, Australia. From Berlin to Rome without change of cars, is a nong European railroad announcements. Why ia the elephant the m -at sagacious sa-gacious of travelers? Because he 1 never takes his eyes off bis trunk. The genius who ia to invent a practical substitute for work haa not yet been born and never will be. ; A Troy workman on Thursday lifted lift-ed GOO pounds with bis hands. It is j said that he can carry 1,000 on his shoulders. Special newspaper trains are now spoken of in England to deliver the London papers in the provinces in time for breakfast. A milk seller was lined 10 in London, Lon-don, the other day, for selling mdk that contained 27 per cent, of water, as proved by analysis. A New York woman bit her tougue off in some unaccountable way, last week; and now her husband goes home three hours earlier evory night. King Ludwig is very tall, very dark, very handsome, and very musical, mus-ical, but none of the royal youn ladies will marry him. They think he's a little touched. A red-nosed gentleman asked a wit whether lie behoved in t-pirits. "Ay, sir," replied he, looking him full in I the face, "I see too much evidence before me to doubt it." Louisiana botL ture Murk the carpet-bagger, and behold the scalawag, scala-wag, for the end of that man h piece a piece of rope; or if it im't it oiht to be. Courier-Journal A Brooklyn landlady excuitsher disinclination to provide terrapin soup for her gueets on the ground that all her male boarders have such heavy mcuatachea. Brooklyn Argus. Out in Wisconsin a horse kicked and killed a book-agent, whereupon the citizens made a donation-party for the horse, and he now has enough oats to last him a full horse lifetime. At the election trial in London, Canada, a Dr. Haggerty testified that he had paid about $125 to wives, in sums ranging from $5 to $25, to influence the votes of their hustands. From the tenor of Mr. Beecher's observations at the Grafton fair grounds, it would appear that he endures en-dures the misfortunes of the Southern people with the greatest fortitude. N. Y. Herald. |