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Show VARIETIES. Wriidt ll Phillips called Carl Fchurz "the Swia soldier, always to let." Many of the debts contracted by the Bhh of Persia in England are said to be yet unpaid. CieniHtion has been legalized in the Cuntou of Zurich, Switzerland, under certain lamUry restrictions. Mr. James C Palmer of Brooklyn, Conn,, keeps down hia potato bugs by the aid of two wing-clipped crowe. Iu Huntington, Conn., there is a tree that bears sweot apples on one wide, sour apples on the other, and pears on top. The average ramlall of Iowa is 4GJ inches, being greater than that of any other western state. Next iu order comes Indiana, with 43.32 incbee. Xl is said that the president will fill j the vacancy on the United Slates supreme court bench in Septembei, after his return from his trip to Ohio. Victor Hugo hept a diary at the time ot the coup d'etat, and bis work 1 upon this subject, which is Bhortly to bo published, is baaed uo)n this Jiary. A thoughtful person says : What uuet the potato bug's opinion of the Humanity that gous around all day putting poison ou the victuals of liumble insects ? Dr. W. Handael Griffiths says that a few drops of nitric acid in a glass ol sweetened water, taken twice daily, will be found an excellent remedy for the hoarseness of singers. The cost of dying in North Carolina Caro-lina is summed up at a low figure: Three can U lop t a nud a half bushel of peaches, 20 cents; one vuit from a doctor, $2 ; pine ooffia, $5 ; total, 7 20. That was a scrupulous young lady in Boston who refused to meet her lovLT Justus bis name wag at home, because she had beard her minister say that justice ahould always al-ways be meeted out. Worth declares that the next change in woman's altire Bhall be in the direction of ehort petticoats, colored clocked stockings visible to the ewell of the calf of the leg, and low-cut buckled shoes. He was making a call, and they were talking of literature. "Tbo 'Pilgrim's Progress,' " she remarked, "always seems lo me painful. Of course you are familiar with Bun- yan V He said he had one on cacu toot, and they troubled bira a good deal. Jtan Baptisto Marius, a grey-baired grey-baired Frenchmen who kept a wine shop, commuted suicide in New York the other day. He left a note Baying that he would "Just go and see what was eoing on in the other world." His frienda await early advices. ad-vices. "Suppose we pass a law," said a severe father to bis daughters, "that no girl eighteen years old who can't cook a good meal shall get married till she learns bow to do it?" "Why, then, we'd all get married at seventeen, seven-teen, " responded the girls in sweet chorus. It is noticeable that the vinegar-faced vinegar-faced old woman who wouldn't give a cent toward the Sunday school pio-nic, pio-nic, because it's "a Irivolous and ungodly un-godly amusement," is always on hand and BtepB up to get her ice cream with the rest when the free refreshments are handed around. A scrupulous Boston lady, who abhors ab-hors slang, when asked at the boarding board-ing house table why her husband was not down to breakfast, replied bashfully bash-fully : "Ob, dear William was upon a a neck last night." "A what ?" said her interlocutor. "A b bosom," she exclaimed, coloring to the roota of her hair. "A which?" Baid be. "A a-b bust !" she whispered behind be-hind her napkin. A thief sneaked into a house on ' North Broid street, Philadelphia, recently, re-cently, and hid himself uDderthe bed in a lady's apartment. He had a bottle of whisky in hia pocket, and the cork coming out the liquor was spilled on the carpet. The lady perceived per-ceived the odor as soon as she entered her room and called her husband and another gentlemen, who were in the parlor. They searched the room and discovered and grappled with the intruder, in-truder, who, however, struggled violently vio-lently and escaped. Three bashi-bazouks the other day, in their wanderings, came across the body of a Russian soldier. They determined de-termined to bury it, and were ou the point ot placing it in a hurriedly-dug j grave, whin the Russian came to hia aenaea, and observing tbeir intention, remarked that he was not dead. They looked at him for a few second, when one of them remarked, "Really, you Ruasians are such horrid liars that it is impossible to believe anything any-thing you say. We found you here dead, so you must be buried;" and they buried him. |