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Show A Mi SORTS. The family of William M. Tweed aro pawing the summer at Bethlehem, N. 11. You can n-nt a Broadway (New York) store (or Ubs than half the old price now, and lose money at that. "jaiing around saloons with iutont to sponge," was the charge made by a Cincinnati pulicemau against a prisoner. An excellent drink for hot weather is cold beef tea. It iB n healthful stimulant, is cosy of digestion, and is very uulritious. The Coso Minin-j Xeics says that a few davs ago at Saratoga bpriugs, in Death valley, California, the thermometer ther-mometer indicated 142 degrees at 2 o'clock p.m., and lib degrees at midnight. mid-night. There is a cat in Council Bluffs which Rut in ton drug store and helps itself to catnip from tho shelf. The trick of Inking a nip in ft drug store did not originate with the feline species. The medical examiner of a prominent promi-nent life insurance company says he has to turn away three-fourths of his applicants who oxcel in athletic exsr- cioes, because they havo dangerously strained the organs of tho heart. From London to Edinburgh the distance is 400 miles, and the fare by first cla.it is 3 4s. 0. By third class it is l 2s. Sd. But then it muit be stated that third class carriages are seldom attached to ttie fast trains. Is this, from an editorial article in the Methodist, to bo regarded as a downright challenge? "We could, probably, by paying tho necessary attention to training, become strong enough to knock Mr. Morrissey over." A pro easion of eighty-nine persons, per-sons, wuo hud been arrested in a Cleveland gambling house, is said to have greatly interested tho spectators as it marched to a police station. It included several prominent citizens. We have frequently had occasion to call the attention ot the city authorities authori-ties to the number aud familiarity of the Hies. Why are not tho police instructed to spend their leisure hours, which are all that they have, in catching lliee? Tha Millerlfn. arnimrl TWL-lnnrl Me., are preparing to go to glory in about a month. Their intended departure de-parture creates considerable alarm among the local democratic politicians, politi-cians, as most ol the adventists there are democrats. It appears that one of the easiest deaths is to be drowned in a barrel of lager. After swallowing a few gallons of tho golden nectar the victim drops off into familiar intercourse with the gods, and never knows just where and when ho crossed the barren border i land of mortality. |