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Show INKLINGS. Hun. (.;t.'jr:-'e W. Julian ia to slump Michigan for the women. Not a Chicaco paper has dared to joke about cremation since last Tuen; lay week. A Connecticut burglar is worth ?7o,Ul'0, all acijuirLd by stick ittg to business. A Portsmouth woman has bten severely uijurcd by the csploaiou of a bakwl pcuto. A Western journal complains uf a contemporan for never originating any lies ol its own. More than 73,003,000 passengers worried the street-car drivers ol Piul-adelphia Piul-adelphia last year. In London churches they are giving giv-ing notice that "five minutes after the bells cea&e to ring till pevrs are tree: The merchants of Washington, D.C., having nothing else whatever to do. have inaugurated an early closing clos-ing niovemeut. There is a man in Chicago who has lived with one wife ten years without a harsh word or a saucepan ever having hav-ing passed between them. The man in Corydon, Ind., who received re-ceived three small pups in payment for three days' harvest work.detnands an improved currency and ru ore of it. Colonel Egorton, in the House of Commons, said philanthropy is bo energetic that "it requires a good deal of influence nowadays to get hanged." It is the Kev. Aithur Winship who wants to know if you would smoke 1 "on yoar dying bed." Smoke anywhere any-where rather than have the Rev. Arthur twaddling around .- Plenty of sympathy with the farmers farm-ers because the greens are all gone; but how about the poor erasshoppers? No one heals their pang of hunger. Fine field for Bergh out there. The Western papers are full of "The Man with the branded iland," but no attention is paid to the men with the "brandiea" noses, though there are ten thousand to one. The O'Donoghue calls Butt a frozen-out politician who "instigated the government to prosecute O'Con-n O'Con-n ell, and has now hecome that inscrutable in-scrutable hybrid, a federal repealer." It is not worth while living in Lowell unless you have a red antique chair on your front piazza. With that you are somebody; without it, you might as well live in Lawrence. Lowell Cuuricr. A London correspondent says Mr. Gladstone is understood to be engaged en-gaged on "spiritual matters," more particularly upon the subject of eternal eter-nal punishment, on which he is said to he questioning the casuists and theologians of every creed. The following epitaph is said to be in one of the church-yards of Manchester, Man-chester, England: Here lies John Hill, A man of ski It, His aae ai five times ten; He ne'er did good, Nor nei-ar would. Had he lived as loos ataic. |