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Show INKLINGS. Sweet aro tho uses of advertisements. advertise-ments. Fateraon Cuartliun. Aj Tho Canadian militia cost over twelve hundred thousand dollars last year. Boston rxf : Cremation hint : "Ashes to ashes" cornea before "dust to dust." Philadelphia has thirteen Aldermen who have never been uccuacd ot corruption. Very nearly two million I Hah Emigrants Emi-grants have landed in New York during dur-ing tho past twenty-fivo years. If tho rumor about Disraeli is true, ht hasn't worn that nice little "beau-catcher" "beau-catcher" all his life iu vain. A prevaVnce of tho m easels ie reported re-ported in Connecticut, but there's ono town there not at all alarmed. It's lladdciu. Brewer, a cloth manufacturer of Iloimfritli, England, had to pay 500 for forgetting htu promise to marry a bar-nmid. A cold snap in Jay Cooke's banana belt last winter destroyed abouttwelvo hundred head of cattlo near Snake river, Idaho. At what hour did the devil muke hia appearance at the Garden of Edcny Some time in the night. Ho certainly came after Eve. Mr. Paul Dana, son of the editor of tho New York Sun, will sit at the bow ol tho Harvard to.it during tho coming regatta. A Newark paper, alluding to the withdrawal of some old street curs, Bays, "they aro as full of pleasant memories as they arc ot lleas." A lady correspondent of a western journal thinks there ought to be a htatue of limitation against the reappearance re-appearance of long-lost husbands. A Kentucky gentleman didn't get mad until ho had been called a"Jiar" eighty-one times. The monotony of the tuing "riled" him. ; The Bald Mountain shake is said to have been gotten up by illicit distillers dis-tillers to frustrate a raid by the Revenue Rev-enue Department. They succeeded. Tho demon of dullness which is often allowed to reign at home, has ore to do with driving young men vicious company than the attractions of vice itself. To euro an ill-tempered man put him under another one whose temper is twice as bad, and let him sec what a fool ho has been m:tking of bim-eclf. bim-eclf. The "School for Scandal" is the rage iu London. It has run 40u nights at the Vaudeville, and Marie Wilton's company are about to bring it out iu a moat t Ld-orato manner. Jt is claimed lor Mr. S. 0. Taylor, of Brooklyn, thai he is the oldest living liv-ing organist. Mr. Taylor is ninety-I ninety-I five years of ago and is blind, and J moro tlian sixly years ago conducted ;the fame choruses as now. He will i be playing "Old Hundred" yet. Loudon is literally built on a foundation foun-dation ol pipe. J n Nimo places il would In; diliieult to find room to lay I another pipe. One g;is company ! supplies two districts with nearly 4iX miles of pipt-s. Then there are the underground tiepr.iph pipes, and li.otH) miles of drain pipes, the. lead and iron pneumatic tubes, tho sewers, 'the water pipt-s and the underground I ruilway. |