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Show KKLIXCS- Fort Kearney is to le pulled down. The missing cashier is getting to be very numerous. TVwtiil curds cost tho government $1.3'Jg per tliousand. Bislinp Cummins' friends style him "the Inter Luther." Thp financial crisis in Fiji makes them Fijity. Houston l'osi. ! It is found that our nerves ars hoi- 1 low tubes containing a fine gas. Hard that the Chief Justice's chair is tu Irnve no Cushing, Cour.-Juur, Rumor has it in Paris that Henri Roche fort has died at the penal set-tlemeut set-tlemeut in jNcw Caledonia. There is nothing like being appointed appoint-ed Chief Justice to learn one's i'uultd and weaknesses. ISubtvn Globe. A State convention of the license alliance of New llumpshire is to be held at Cuncord on the 22d iujjt. There are only about a dozen Legislatures Leg-islatures in full blast, to say nothing 01 the rjuinairel troupe in Washington. A stuffed catamount looks grandly down upon persons who have business with the treasurer of Jackson county, Mo. Troblem for Congressional inflationists inflation-ists how to mike an empty bag stand upright. i'iltsUurgh Commercial. Commer-cial. Clergymen arc scarce in the remote regions of Arkansas, and couples have to marry theniselvca by kissing across a tabic. In the Legislature of California a bill has been introduced for the abolition aboli-tion of the death penalty for murder and treason. TVTitt is the difference between a purturo? One is an ipse dixit, the other a tipacy exit. A French astronomer thinks that he will be able to find out during the onming transit ot Venus whether the planet is inhabited. A Missouri judge decides that railways rail-ways must p;iy for the privilege of killing their employes just as though they were passengers. The Inwa temperance people are gloating over the fact that the new water works at Dubuque alreadysup-ply alreadysup-ply one hundred consumers. One of those convivial lamp-posta seized by a State constable last night. He held on to it until another came to his assistance. Boston Post. The Chicago Tribune says this is'the platform of the Communists: "Every man who saves money must be maae to divide with every m tn who gave none." Fork is only two cents per pound at Leavenworth, Kansas, aud the man wheels Lhc hog right to the door. The only drawback is, that the man from whom it was stolen soon appears, A Yermonter who sold his farm and used all the money he got for it in buying a lottery ticket, drtrw $30 and a hritotf watch. He then threw himself him-self 'jpon a roaring biiiz-saw aud closed clos-ed his eventful career. The Bo.-ton C7-V talks abouf'hand-some abouf'hand-some weather." Whereupon the Troy H hiff suggests that "if that young man wouldn't be thinking about kid irl all the time when he is butchering butcher-ing adjectives he would make a good writer." The Dundee (Xcw York) Record says that you can't fling a brick in that town without hitting a dashing young widow worth from $5,000 to 15,000. We have planned to lake Dundee in our summer excursion. Detroit Free Press. The Philadelphia Sar thinks that genuine love is played out. Humph! The old sinner ought to travel through Michigan aud see the uparkle oi the eyes as two lovers hold the same pep-permi pep-permi nt lozenge between their teeth. JJdrvit Free Press. |