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Show INKLINGS. Miasouri thinka onouph of the tr;iin irobbcra t ofler $-,0(K) apiece for them. Beeclier Bin's the United SLiLes it? England broke looie and growing in the open air. Michigan has a bro;ul-gaugo wood-1 cn ruilrond eleveh miles long, ftnd blic thinks she likes it. A man named Vowel was murdered in cold blood in Tennessee, lust week. Glad it was neither U nor I. Spicer says that a cheap boarding-house boarding-house reminds him of a grave-yard it is so suggestive of dust and hashes. Syracuse, New York, claims to have completed the biggest set of windmills wind-mills in the world. It forgcta Congress, Con-gress, Cincinnati undertakers want the privilege of signing certificates ol death instead o! hunting up doctors to do it. Investigation has developed the fact that two of the most pitiable looking organ-grinders in Cleveland, Ohio, are frauds. One hundred and twenty-five thorn and valentines p.isseU through the New York poet oftiCe on St. Valentine's Valen-tine's day. How happily things turn out. It is now declared that (.iladstnne has long been very anxious to withdraw from public lile. , Some of the Ohio Udies are mixing their hymns- intend ol singing them straight. ' Bring forth the Royal Demijohn," is an example. The town of I'mlonia, in western ' New York, has for more than forty ; years been fully or partially lighted by gas which issues from springs in that place. Sam Foster, ol Washington county, New York, thnlied by hand ninety bushels of oats in thirteen hours, isam ohoti Id get out a patent for himself immediately. A western paper says of the air, in its relation to a uran: "It kisses and blesses him, bat will not obey him." Poor Dobbii says that description Biiita his wile exactly. One leading feature of the Boston public schools is the fact that the scholars are not allowed lo trade their hunks of gum during icitool hours, as they do out West. i An Indiana woman saya that no one would believe how smart and industrious in-dustrious her husband has become fiinee she cit to keeping a three-lined pitchfork Dehiiid the door. An Ktiglishman gay? there is more misery in Ctiicaco and .Sw York today to-day than in Indon, io proportion to population. Beggary w a profession in Kurope; here it is a necessity. A certain stylo of prayer nw in vogue was well demerit -ed by an admiring ad-miring listener to llie Itov. Mr. Kirk, of whom he said "he made the best prayer ever addressed U a Boston audience." au-dience." A Prairie du Chien ball, given in honof of a woilding, bcan at 10 o'clock o'-clock one morning and laU-d until the next daylight. When it closed tlie briile was drunk, and the husliand had lioen taken lo jail for be:iting one of In the porch of Sl Ttter's Church at Wolvcliampinn U a monument with this singul.ir iiwription: Xmr this place Cliarlfa Claudiuo 1'hil-lijw, 1'hil-lijw, whiise aleohite contempt of rit''uoj aiHl iniinitab'e performances on the violin made him the admiration admira-tion of all who knew him. He lorn in Walm, m.ule the tour o( Kti-n Kti-n 'm and, alter the rxmrieno uf Uh'h kin.l of fortune, di.ii in ITS'J. |