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Show LNKLLXGS. I Stanley has been engaged to hunt up Genet. Mark Twain is coming back again in January. New York'B best lawyers charge $50 an hour. Maine has had steady sleighing for seven weeks. Bismarck's particular complaint ia night-s weals. Minneapolis wants a kindergarten school immediately. America leads the world in manufacturing manu-facturing pins and needles. The president of the Swiss Republic Repub-lic receives $3,000 a year salary. Gloucester brags of a clam that measures ten inches around his waist. A letter directed to " the bst looking look-ing girl in Chicago," was cln lined bv 1,800. There htp but three copper-smelting works in oper..tion in the United States. Marriage announcements appear as "attachment notices" in an Ohio paper. The Boston Aricertiscr credits Gail Hamilton with " an exuburance of opinions." The Duchess of Aosta, wife of ex-King ex-King Amadeus, of Spain, has the consumption. con-sumption. " Drunk for a penny; dead drunk for two pennies; straw for nothing." London Snjn. Massachusetts offers a prize for the best de-sign for a State prison to hold 1,000 prisoners. There is a town in Massachusetts where there has not been a wedding for fiftPPn vwira Something over seven hundred million mil-lion postage stamps had thoir eyes put out last year. -High society in Boston won't countenance coun-tenance anything but gold letters On a silver door plate. The New York stockbrokers go completely demoralized Christmas eve. Champagne did it. New Orleans is receiving cotton at the rate of ten thousand bales a day, and is correspondingly happy. The Milwaukee Sentinel says that defalcation in Chicago makes the citizen blush like a sun flower. Since his defeat for Alderman in Boston, Wendell Phillips has abandoned aband-oned all thoughts of the Presidency. Ben. Butler's cross and crabbed temper is said to have been aggravated aggrava-ted by his failure to ride a velocipede. The intelHgpnce of the banishment of Caleb Cushing was received with yelps of delight by Fernando Wood's dog. The two colleges established in the Turkish empire by American enterprise enter-prise are pronouaced eminently success suc-cess luh A Thomas cat at Defiance, Ohio, who has passed 20 years on the footstool, foot-stool, still bid defiance to the ravages of time. A Brooklyn man, who contemplates contem-plates taking his girls to Europe next Spring, is having a Diana Bwimmhig 1 bath dug in his cellar. An exchange remarks that it is thirty-seven years since Miss Char-. Char-. lotte Cushman first expressed a desire 1 to get rid of that " damned spot." 1 The recent rise of the river Wabash, did immense damage to the whiskey , crop. The "Tall Sycamore" will go into Winter quarters on short rations. When Butler is aroused the fire in his sound orb is like the flash of a kerosene explosion. This seems to rest upon the best Chicago authority. Somebody has defaced and chipped the marble fence m front of the residence resi-dence of A. T. Stewart, and that gentleman gen-tleman has complained of the officer on that boat. |