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Show ALL SORTS. I A society ford istrcsil Americans , ia to be eaublbhed in Berlin. Chicago's wholesale tnule for 1S7-4 exceeds lliat of by $30,000. Hole-in-the-day's two dflughtera : are attending a mixed school in Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. WHien an IJabo pirl is ki?5ed she i indignantly exclainiB, " Now put that right back where you took it Irom !" Kntv Kelly. 1G years old, is under arrest 'in St. Louis on ft chargo of opening Idlers belonging to another person. In r.irts there are contractors who p;iy the city $rJO,OUO per annum for the privilege of sweeping the streets perfectly clean. It is estimated that the" people of S.m Francisco consume $3,000 worth ot ovrtters per day, or at the rate of SI 0( VI 000 worth ft ver. "Back yarfl cats in Cincinnati have e a wild and hunted look, aud the bakeries are filled with miuce-pies, -; says the veracious Enquirer. Paris jewellers are obliged to dis-1 dis-1 tinguish p'ntid from genuine ware by the word "imitation" placed where the customers cannot fail of seeing it. Mark Twain has struck a good-sized good-sized bonanza in "Col. Sellers." The play has already yielded him $la,-000, $la,-000, and lie sees "millions in it vet. "Lord Dundreary" Southern, at the Kaymarnet, and '-Hamlet' Henry Irving, at the Lyceum, are the London attractions of this season. sea-son. King Kalakaua is a great lover of ' American oysters; but he will not touch them on the half-shell. They must he served up in their original , coverings. The latest cnne of indolence is reported re-ported of John Hole, who, in writing bis name, simply uses the letter J and punches a hole in the paper for the remainder. On being asked what profession he should adopt, a Chicago minister's son replied, "I don't know; I haven'c made up my mind yet whether to be a car-driver or a burglar." , Mrs, A. B. Hutcninson, a member of the fiimous singing family, was stricken with paralysis while delivering deliver-ing a lecture in Minnesota, recently, and died in half an hour. A mau,his wife, baby and a black-and-tan terrier lately travelled in a wagon from Kansas to Branchville, N. J., 1,500 miles, in forty-nine days, at an expense of only $97. The married ladies of Nevada city will give a paper cambrio fancy dress parly on January 1st. No other kind of material for dresses and masks but paper cambric will be used. Among some of Gnorge Washington's Washing-ton's private pipers lately found at Alexandria, Va., were receipted bills for "four barrels nf porter," "ten gallons gal-lons of rum," and other liquid. A weekly p iper in Illinois describes tho editor of the other paper as "a blear eyed hitchingpo; t, a goat faced gunnysack, a wart eared bungh le for a cider barrel, and a plaster cast for the poopdeck on a canal boat. |