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Show HAWKEYE GLANCES. Garfield won in the thirty-sixth round; six days. Someone, says the Detroit Free Press, now calls for an unstriped zebra. The Chicago hotelkeepers' idea of heaven is that it is one perpetual convention. John McCullough's income last year exceeded that of the President of the United States. The Elmira Advertiser thinks it is better to put cabbage leaves than bricks in straw hats. The Boston Transcript is going to gather up the late political straws and stuff a mattress. Some men can't take cold without blowing about it, hoarsely whispers the Boston Transcript. Mr. Edison is the man, according to the Buffalo Express, who is always going to do something. It is no disgrace to have big feet, but it is a disgrace to be ashamed of them. - A man who wears No. (Number) 10's. The Norristown Herald thinks that a man must be a hardened sinner when me "lies" at the point of death. Moths cut up $25,000,000 worth of goods in this country every year, while elephants don't injure us a bit. - Free Press. In his race with Trickett, Hanlan will be as good an American as anybody - provided he comes out ahead. - Elmira Free Press. I thank the Lord there is one thing in the world that money kan't buy, and that iz the wag ov a dog's tail. Josh Billings. Benjamin Franklin, when alive, looked after his pennies, and now he has his reward by having his head on the penny postage stamp. Miss Barthold, the daughter of the Paraguayan counsul-general, wore a dress of Spanish lace worth $3,500 at her wedding in New York. A Canadian village possesses a curiosity in the form of an electric girl. Any person shaking hands with her is subjected to a violent shock. Dr. (Doctor) J. G. Holland and family have gone to "Bonnicastle," their charming summer home at Alexandria Bay, among the Thousand Islands. |