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Show GENERAL AND PERSONAL. Kentucky is shipping black walnut to Europe. Colfax has made $12,000 by lecturing lectur-ing since hit aumoitr. fr.gri,,.!!, democratic governor of CwiukcIk-iu, I,:, n majuray of 3.G57 , and a p'nriUy 01 7, IM. I An Indiana pix was re,-emly blown -twenty ham ot wind. It must have been u reg'lar mv so .v. 'eater. Bon BuiLt is quite a favorito with Wfshingt :n ladies. They aay there's a slrange fascination in the loving glances of his squint eye. There are 5Sd,193 silver dimes in a barrel that is, a barrel of dimes and if you order a few barrels don't let them cheat you iu the count. Richard H. 1'ani was never before the mast in a winder. Neither of the vessels in which he served was engaged en-gaged in the vulgar pursuit referred to. They won't let John Morrissey start a gambling house in Philadelphia, and he said, in great amazement, "Cau it be? Is this me Centennial year?" It is supposed that the "phantom army" wnic-n Longlcllow speaks of in one of bis poems, must have been composed entirely of "skeleton regiments." regi-ments." A laoy acquaintance propounds the following: What is the worst case of youthful profanity mentioned in scripture? Job, who cursed the day he was born. uan rroiessor lice explain why it 1 is that the wind, which has blown a gale all day, invariably dies down suddenly whenever you sco a pretty girl just ahead of you? It is discouraging for a man to be standing by the side of an open window win-dow and have some vegetarian reach in and attempt to jerk his nose off, under the impression that it is a spring radish. The Bible revision committee have discovered that all Job's boils were 011 his neck and around his shoulders. Very evidently Job is not entitled to all the credit and admiration which he has received. In Washington it is quite common to see some of the female employes of tbe departments wearing costumes that have cost an amount of money equal to their pay for three or four, or even sometimes six months. The gymnasium of Va&vir college is looked upon as one cf its most praiseworthy features, but no one can yet a true idea ot what it is accomplishing accom-plishing for the pup, Is until he attempts at-tempts io criticise a Vassar girl's Latin. Massachusetts girls never do anything any-thing by halves.. Their natures are of the intense order, and their devotion Ui any pursuit is wonderful. One ol them nearly died of lockjaw the other day, caused by persistently chewing gum. One of those griefs which a man feels too deeply to cry about is that' caused by the intelligence that a Boston editor has succumbed to a bad attack of the Washington diphtheria" diph-theria" If a Iioelon editor can't stay good, there isn't much use of the rest ol us saying our prayers. Providence is at war with hair-dye, and soonur or later pun:s.:es the man who uses it. " Ihll Smalley," shrieked a Kansas belie, suddenly jerking her shoulder from under her lover's head and spilling him icuo-miuiously icuo-miuiously on the lljor, "you can't make a piller of me no more your hair smells like old iron film's."" A stupendous allegation is made bv a southern paper to the ellect that a little colored buy was recently swallowed swal-lowed by an all igat ir winch was caught next day and cut open, the boy being found ahve. Several person, per-son, vouch for the truth of the story, hut those wiiu can swallow it will do quite as much iu tiie swallowing line as tho alligator did. At heart Mr. Greeley sympathized with the rebellion, for be was a sincere believer io the right of secession. So ouljioken was be on (his subject, at one tune, that it whs only by a terrible ter-rible threat, utttered against him by the iale Henry Wibon, at a meeting which Mr. Greeley had convened, of h-ading men, at Washington, thai Mr. Greeley wad preva.leJ upon to dcsi.il from the advocacy of peace at any price. New York Suit, |