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Show Clmrch singers are s:iid to livo by luck ami chants. "They put him in a show caso," was the remark of a rural lady, who recently attended a city funeral. A man who advertises for an agent to soil a new medicine, says that "it will prove very lucrative to tho undertaker." under-taker." Tho Brooklyn Anus m of opinion that a kind word "will always go further than a ILa iron or a potato masher." Tho first public hopit-il was found cd in Rome in tho fourth century by a lady named Kabtoln, iw an act of penanee. A wpdtern paper announces tho death of a Judy celebrated tor the "purity of her diameter and complexion." com-plexion." A man, jiwl released from a Massachusetts Massa-chusetts jail, wants a filiation as a compromise candidate for Mr. Sumner's Sum-ner's acat. An undevout KenUickiun dculares Job a myth. ''Oh, no!" saya the lioiton W, "you are myth-takon, ho was a myth-lcr." A rural Htntintician reports that nioro peojila are talked to deatli by peddlers of lightning rods than are killed by lightning, tuitc likely. Business at Evansvillo is iDiprov-ing. iDiprov-ing. The Other day, aaya the Courier, sixteen men and ono dog were engaged en-gaged in huntiug a rat on Main I street. The Persians believe that all dia-1 dia-1 minds (ell from Heaven during the t earliest etageH of the world, and arc therefore entitled to religious veneration. vener-ation. Londoners are now enjoying ''Tichborue dumplinga," whieh are nothing probably but "suet" pudding, pud-ding, with a considerable mixture of "dates." The painful rumor Ls in circulation Uiat several rich men have died recently re-cently without making any provision j in their wills for that unfortunate pau- J per, Sanborn. j And now Icelanders are beginning j to seek lioinca in the United Stated, j They are said to resemble tho Scotch j in appearance, and are a bright, ! cleanly, healthy-looking clatrf. Swiss landlords are expecting a largo influx of American visitors. They have completely refitted their elegant establishments this Winter, and covered every unguarded point with a ciccc.tux dc 'rise of spittoons. There is one thing upon which the human mind can dwell with satisfaction satisfac-tion in these degenerato days, and that is the thought that the ice-crop has been suflieiently abundant this season to keep shr-rry-cobulera at the same old rates. Brooklyn Arju3. "Sambo, where did you get tho watch you were wearing to church lat Sunday?" "Laws, massa, how you know I had a watch?" "Why, I saw the chain hanging out of your pocket it; front." "Oh.g'way, massa! S'pose you sea a halter round my neek, would you t'iuk dere was a horse inside ob me?" It takes six gvit a mouth to feed a large boa- ccna'-mtor. They aro .swallowed whole, the lime for each being two hours and twenty minutes, during whieh thn replilo makes tcr-rilic tcr-rilic ctlbrts and ih .gutting conlor-lion?. conlor-lion?. H:a tiien lies in a torpid state till hw foo.l is dijy-jlvetl, when he 1 makes known that he id readv for j another meal. ' i |