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Show INCIDENTAL. "Ophtr" a few attares of Cilifernia mining stock. Forney says he didn't see a single lobbyist about the French assembly. Stanley ia under contract with the New York Herald not to marry while in Africa. A St. Louis editor calU a ?ontem-porary ?ontem-porary a 11 journeyman grammar-smasher." grammar-smasher." In New Eugland tho people pump water with an ax and carry it home in a basket. Bergh has hail a man sent to the penitentiary for three months for killing a cat. Chas. G. Lelaml contends that America was discovered in the tilth century, by the Cnineae Buddhist priest). Wm. Bishop, a telegraph operator at Helena, Montana, has fallen heir to $125,000 by the death of a Jersey relative. One of the proofj ot the superiority of French cooking 13 that dyspepsia, the curse ol Americans, is scarcely known at Paris. August Heaiuie has given the Central Cen-tral Tiihernacle, of San Fr.uicisco, $;0,000 in solid coic, relieving the church from debt. At Hempstead, Long Island, an attendant at-tendant has been fined $S for defiling the floor of the Methodist church with tobacco juice. What belles the unmarried daughters daugh-ters of Sharon of Nevada will be when they arrive in Washington ! Flirtation I "There's millions iD it." "What on earth made you got bo drunk, and why oh, why do you come to me in this dreadful state?" "Because, my darling, all the other places are shut up." A Boston Bentleman, slightly under the influence of the intoxicating bowl, recently exploded. "Whisky, zur," he said, "hie brightens the intellect. It ought io be introduced into the public schools." Christian E. Ross, the father of Charley, has. been searching the, shores of the Baritau river and ad-1 joining streams, where Mosher was in the habit of suiciding, examining the houses for a strange boy, but without with-out success. It is reported that James Gordon Bennett proposes eatae-liuhiug a London Lon-don paper on tho style of the New York Berald to beat the thunderer in its own field, and that this business busi-ness is the object of his pre?ent visit to England. The whisky saloon of B. Prine, of Prineville, Wasco couuty, Oregon, has been bought out by tbe citizens and closed, Prine agreeing never to start another, and to oppose any other person in doing so in the place. A western editor, noticing the present of a silver cup to a brother editor, Bays, "He needs no cup; he can drink from any vessel that contains con-tains liquor, whether the neck of a bottle, the mouth of a pickle jar, the spile of a keg, or the bung of a barrel." An eccentric fellow in Belgium commenced, ten years ago, the arduous ardu-ous task of counting up to two billions. bil-lions. He has kept at it ever since, has not yet reached half the number, and still counts on. Of course, by this time he is of no ac-count to him-sel him-sel f, or anybody else. An inquiry addressed to one of the California astronomers who went to Asia to watch the transit of Venus, about the time the earth would fall into the sun and bo burned up, elicited the reply that he could nut make the calculation till he got Another An-other appropriation from Congress. AUa. |
