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Show The I'Mrcu fi-m of L:-v. A Detroiier ktt-i-a tiati-ff ..-Li u-i-i twenty iicoL-iuan. L-.ia.iry b;:da in 'u:: iiOLUt;. j Governor HtnJrwkn ii iv-acd f ; hav.- sxd. "I luitc to 13-v.-..-fall." I A MUeOtiri shorllVi'lKra fi.rVi.e ".''. the craps of Corn belonging to.!. I Brocks lJeCV;it.'' A Maachtu-etfci m.ui. A e;.'j':::y-six e;.'j':::y-six years, hunted himeeh' Ijulu; he couldn't get rid of a cancer. The two things that a woman will "yo wild"' over arc, usually, a nt-w drLSS-pattcrn and a tuoihachc. A t. Louis paper dcnnunci.'.s iu political foes as "buiinU," "callow goalmys,' and "wuaUh-coiiatiiuiiH; If Beccher U znihv, why tU.n't hc own up; his folks will lurive him. We are all poor creatures, and liaUu to err. Young ladies who talk French in hotel parlors adverse the fact that they have never left their native land. A woman at Knoxville, Tenu., recently re-cently had two live rattlesnakes taken from her stomach. She feels better, but the reptiles are without a home. The Grand Tnke Alexis' English bull-purp has been impounded at St. Petersburg!, lor treacherously making mak-ing a breach in the Emperor's trousers. trous-ers. A perverse WashLugtoniau, notwithstanding not-withstanding nil the arguments in favor of cremation, directed that his body Bhould be sunk hi six lathoms of water. When a Pennsylvania man is found dead, with a copy of the Pitta-burgh Pitta-burgh Commercial in his hand, a coroner's inquest is considered uune-3 uune-3 cessary. A Massachusetts man has been in a successful business forty-nine years, " and never advertised. The business consisted chielly in "lying about his " neighbors. ' . Senator Shenhftn protests that he doesn't know of a single Senator who is in the habit of drinking too much. And he is right. Most of them can never get enough. Wilkins says his girl waved her handkerchief at him as he passed the house, last evening. In response, he waved his coat-sleeve which he uses as a handkerchief. They have a tradition in the C:ttskill Mountains that when an Albany deacon goes there for trout, the fish require him to produce a certificate of character before thgy will. bite. Beaver Dam lovers don't care sc much about who" marries thetn .and how the church is decorated,, but they want thirty-two kegs ol lager driven around to t lie' house at the right hour, 3ure. , t ie Ten years from now Germany ex-g ex-g pects to be able to put into the field a trained army of Tine million six hundred hun-dred thousand men. This, for a country that has no Indian war on hand, will be rather enterprising. A Missouri man, rather than be arrested ar-rested and put in the work-house foi six months for not wearing pantaloons, panta-loons, stole a pair, and now he has been sent to the penitentiary for two years. Such is our boasted liberty. The Brooklyn man who cured himself him-self of the liver complaint by jumping over a choir, didn't do it with thai object in view, so much as in consequence conse-quence of somebody telling him that his tailor wag coming up the stairs. y A correspondent assures us that the country hears the contradiction ol the rumor that Vice-President Wil-son Wil-son is going to resiga, with much the 16 same grateful sense of relief that a person feels who has just got over a n severe attack of cholera morbus, al Time 1- a.m. yesterday Dirty-faced Dirty-faced child loquitor " Papa, why a" don't they wash my face and pu( clean clothes on me?" Distressed Paterfamilias "Shut up, Tommy your mamma's in the front parlor - reading the Beccher-THton business. busi-ness. ' ' |