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Show INKLIXtiS. Xaw Hampshiro farmers have to melt anow to water their cattle. There's nothing halt so sweet in 1 life as a school jjirl'a chewing guni. t The Boston Gfabe tries to ring in a , new word on us "oUtuate" but it won't do. The polar wave long may it not wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of tho brave ! Thomas Carlyle now sleeps in a pair of California-made blankets snt him by an admiring friend. If a man dropa down upon a chair where a bad boy has left a bent pin, he will rise like a phoenix from its anhc3. The girls who attend tables at Connecticut Con-necticut fairs and sell kisses at ten cents a kias, won't give three for a quarter. Stingy! AMcXairy county, Tenn., family waa considerably broken up not long since by the marriage, on the same day, of the five daughters of its head. Mrs. Fitch needn't crow yet. There is a bit of podsip ourront that Mrs. Sartoris will soon have a priceless little jewel of her own. Boston Post. A Rochester flirt had an ofler of marriage the other evening, and rushing te the hall she called up Btaire: ''Mother! am I engaged to anybody now?" "I want to engage you for two sets ahead," said a fellow to a belle al a ball. "As I oan't accommodate you," she replied, "I shall be obliged to give you one set back." Robert and Margaret Clark, husband hus-band and wife, aged respectively 80 and 81, who died of old age within a few hours of each other in Newark, N.J., last were buried Sunday. Patrick O'Hair has introduced a , uiu iu mo jjuiiuia iPK'siaiure to anoi-, anoi-, ish that immemorial and peculiarly American custom of "troating," under a penalty of from $20 to $100. Two hundred horses are in course of training at New York stables for the spring races. This number is to be largely re-enfoiced by southern stables, especially many from Kentucky. Ken-tucky. "Breddren," said a cullud preacher, preach-er, "I know that Brodder Beecher am innocent, and you must belebe him innocent likewise. But it am jis possibul he's dun been among skunks." A colored preacher in South Carolina Caro-lina puts his foot on excessive bribery at elections, and crushes it. "Dis ting," he says, "ob gettin' $100 for a vote is all wrong; $10 is as much as it's worf." On Monday evening his wife asked him where he was going as she observed ob-served him putting on his overcoat. "I am going to sally forth," he replied. re-plied. "Let me catch you going with any Sally Forth." "I swear," Baid a gontleman to h.B mistress, "you are very handsome." "Pooh I ' ' said the lady, ' 'so you would say if you did not think so." "And so you would think," answered he, "though I should not say so." A gentleman walking behind t.vo school children, on Washington avenue; the other day, heard the boy inquire: "Will you beat the party to-night?" "I shall be there," answered an-swered the miss, "but I may as well tell you now that your love is hopeless. hope-less. Mamma is determined, father is set, and it isn't right for mo to encourage en-courage your attentions. I can be a sister to you nothing more. There-foi-o you Qoodu'i buy mm unj vnliiQ- tino or give me any more gum." Detroit Free Prat. |