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Show 31ISCELLAXV. Now Jorstjy has just elected her 100th legislature. A man at Reading, T., lately grew thirty-seven cabbage Leads on one sialic. The Hartford Times insinuates that a good overcoat looks hat-rack-tive to an entry thief. Zoroaster says: "When yon doubt, abstain." Hoyle Bays: "Trump, and take the trick." A Pennsylvania!! is using a stove 103 years old. The revolutionary fires of 76 are tuipposcd to have been kindled at it. In Prussia hist year one out of every fourteen children was born out of wedlock, there being 76,469 illegitimates. ille-gitimates. It is eighteen years the 7th of next December Bince a democratic speaker has been elected by the house of representatives. rep-resentatives. Mrs. York, widow of Dr. York, who was murdered by the Bender family in Kansas, has written a uie-toryof uie-toryof that interesting lamily. Illinois paid internal revenue' to the government last year to the amount of $17,627,008, leading all the other states. Whisky did it. St. "Louis editors who visit tho Brooklyn revival meetings are not asked lor their tickets "For Sinners," their faces being asullicient passport. A New York paper urges the democratic dem-ocratic house ol representatives to cut down the army, navy, Indians and miscellaneous items $jjU,000,000 per annum. A curious tiling is love, which com-eth com-eth from above, and lighteth like ft dove on some; but it never hitfi, unless un-less it gives them fits, and scatters all their wits. Oh, hum. The Philadelphia navy yard, which is to be Bold by the government, on the 2d of December, has been used since the year 1801, when the Bite was purchased for $37,000. The richest women in America ia Miss Kittv Wolfo. Iler income is $1,000 per day. Would you work very hard to "keep that kind of a Wolfe from jour door? Chicago Times. The Union Pacific has sent to California since the 1st of March about 40,000 "emigrants," (that is, people who travel on cheap tickets,) while not more than one-tenth of that number have returned. A revival is raging at Amandaville, Ky., under tho management of a local Talmage, who says: "I- know I am a fool, and I glory in it; just such as lam God sent out to knock the socks from under tho Burners' heels." Man (witli handd in pockets): "Seen anything of a job o' work, lately, John?" Other man (wih hands in other pockets): "Saw one the other day, but didn't like to ask, 'cos they might ha' said yea." London Lon-don Fiw. The Philadelphia Ledger says that the sum of ouo million of dollars is etill needed for the national Centennial, Centen-nial, and objects to the proposed light house statue of liberty in New York harbor until the tirst business is carried out. Among the treasures Mrs. Scott-Sicldons Scott-Sicldons had stolen from h'er, the article she valued most was a silver nutmeg-grater which was loft her by her grate, greater, greatest grandmother. grand-mother. If she could pet it back she would nutmeg much effort to recover the other things. Look out for poisoned stockings. They arc said to be generally colored with arsenic and other poUonous eub-, stances. A Chicago chemist estimates esti-mates that there aro no less than 8,000 persons in that city being slowly poisoned to death. A great many paper collars are said to bo prepared with arsenic. ' The Chicago Tribune has put forward for-ward the old story about the Mormons Mor-mons removing to Palestine to establish upon that sacred soil a polygamous empire. The Mormons have too much wealth iu Utah to go deliberately to a country where they would be put back a half century through the opposing influences of soil and climate. O'ourier-Jonriwl. Walt Whitman is on a visit to Washington for the first timo in nearly three years, and The Slar says of him: "Though yet ill fiom paralysis paral-ysis and other ailments, and very lame and slow in gait, hia large figuro, clothed in gray, with the regular regu-lar old open neck, white collar, red face, and copious beard of yoro, looked much the Bame and not amiss amid the bright sunlight and crisp and mellow atmoaphero of tho magnificent mag-nificent autumn." "What's the meaning, deary, of this word, h e-t-c-r-o-p-li-e-m-y," asked Mrs. Smiley of her husband, yesterday morning as she leaned back from tho brcaUfnat table and beyan reading tho newspaper. "Why my love," replied Smiley, "it means it means well, suppose I should say you aro getting to bo as crosseyed cross-eyed ns Mrs. Jones." "What," shrieked Mrs. Smiley, "me crosseyed!!" cross-eyed!!" "But, my dear," interrupted inter-rupted Smiley, "just for an illustration, illustra-tion, yon know." "Illustration I don't know I" screamed Mrs. S, Smiley, you'ro a tarual old fool I Call me cross-eyed, do you? You nasty, sneaking, moan old, lying monkey wrench, tako thatl" "That" was a coflco cup, and Mr. Smiley did tako it right iu the loft eye. |