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Show Tim Chicago toper ''changes front" ow ly simply chalking his nose. The Wiuihingtnn bellea consider it "low" to flirt with Congressmen. Photographs of the Into lamented Horace- Greeley's nignnluru are selling in Rome lor copies of the inscription.' at Kurnae. A Yankee wanted tho Bridge of 1 Sighs pointed out to him, and then I wanted to bet America had several! bridges twice the ai.e. We do not hear much of Genera! Roscenmz lately. He must bo dead, or he would certainly have written u letter on the currency iiiteation. Do not upbraid a hoy when you detect de-tect him HlippingstealLhily downstairs with the Key of tbo pantry iu his hand. The innocent exuberance of childhoul will not bear to bo rudely repressed. The Shah of Persia is going to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, nnd, .accordingly, .accord-ingly, several succulent Persian stales-men stales-men have been cooped up and are fed on India meal, preparatory Ut supplying supply-ing His Sublimity's commissariat. An Oswego paper dcHcribes a fire by saying that "the red I lames danced in the heavens and flung their licry arm about like a bhi;k funeral pall until Sam Jones got on the roof and doused them out with a pail of water." When a young man begins to examine ex-amine hid upper lip attentively in a looking-glass, there are doubtless great thoughts revolving through his mind, which, it diligently cultivated, wilt spare hitn in after life many "hair-breadth" escapes. A Brooklyn physician assured an undertaker, hist week, tlmt he would soon have a job lor him, an 1, since then, the disgusted colli n-mcrchant has threatened the doctor with an ac tion fur breach of contract, because the patient recovered. A I toy who had been taught that time is money appeared at the bank, tho other day, and remarked that be had had an hour given him, and would like to Fpcnd a quarter of an hour, and would take the change fur the other three-ijuai ters. Rochester 1)?m-i(iI: There is a fortune for-tune awaiting Secretary Richardson buinewhere in Europe, and we beg to remark to him very e.irncstty that it can be secured only througti his immediate im-mediate presence and bis personal 1 exertion on the ground. I An elephant took cold the other day jin Cincinnati; but two gallons of whiidty threw him into a nice perspi-I perspi-I ration, and brought him around all '.right. His character as an elephant, 5 however, is much injured iu the weal, 1 laud be thinks of moving to Ituaton. . 1 Sylvaims think.'- it would be a goc thing to s.iy, when thcGovernor blow.-up blow.-up and calls vi m as oii.itin.ite its ? mule, "bike enough, when ynu have an ass for ymir lather." Sylvanu: does not mean to try tin him-elf. lit has no occasion. Any tiny that want it may have it. ! The fi-llowui'.: .nivei-iUi-meni is fimr a p'iper published in tbe uv-t: "Ti rent A house on Melville avenue. Io ( rated iinriiedl.i U ly al in.-iile of a lim plum garden, trotn which an alum d.tnt -iiipply of the most dcl:ei ih tru; 'may lie stolen during the ea.r 1 Rfut luw. ami the j rja'er part lakt in plums." |