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Show DETROIT CURRENCY HAVE you noticed what awful weather has prevailed since the revised edition appeared? "WHAT is mythology?" asks John Fiske in the Atlantic. We give it up. What is your thology [theology]? A PARIS physician was given $5,000 to remove a wart from a woman's nose, and she was only tolerably good-looking at that. "MRS. Sophia Soper is my heiress" was all the will left by a New Orleans woman, yet the lawyer's couldn't break it. HON. David Davis delivered an address at Bloomington, Ill., July 11th. No platform was erected, the ground being considered safer. IT TAKES 800 full blown roses to make a tablespoonful of perfume, while ten cent's worth of cooked onions will scent a whole neighborhood. NILESON'S voice is all right, Delaware peaches are all right, Vennor has missed it again, and there's no reason why we shouldn't all be happy. "ANYTHING historical here?" he said at Mount Desert to a native. "Wal, yes," was the reply, "that there cow used to belong to Ben Butler." A WAR between France and Italy wouldn't be a bad thing. That is it wouldn't increase the number of organ-grinders in this country to any extent. "THERE is always an ass in every legislature," remarks an Albany paper. An ass? Well, that's letting the forty or fifty other fellows down mighty easy. THE best that can be said of the Senate is that it seemed now and then to be somewhat ashamed of itself, while the people were ashamed of it all the time. EMERSON told an enthusiastic Millerite who was once predicting the approaching end of the world not to fret "as we could get along just as well without it." WITHIN the next twenty-five years the doctors will be able to see through a patient by means of some powerful light. Then look out for your guilty consciences. ONLY sixty-six failures were reported last week, not including the failure of the New York and New Hampshire Legislatures to elect Senators.-Lowell Courier. POOR Le Duc! Now that his head is off let us remember that he was the man who spent three years in trying to give this country a strawberry which should work on hinges. THE New York Herald advises all brunettes to wear butter-color. There are some seven or eight kinds of butter, each with its own color, and the Herald should be more explicit. A CLEVELAND horse was cured of a lameness of long standing as soon as a surgeon had out a silver quarter out of his shoulder. It's only cheap horses who lug quarters around that way. MISS Lilliwhite, who is about to marry, remarked on Memoiral [Memorial] Day that she could sympathize with the brave boys in blue, having lost her hand in an engagement.-Boston Transcript. THIS has been a bad spring for prison wardens. No less than eight have had to tender their resignations or take the bounce, and three or four State Governors stand none too well in public estimation. A CORRESPONDENT writes to the New Haven Register that a bag containing cloves, cinnamon, red pepper, allspice, bayberry and black pepper, suspended over the stomach, is a sure cure for malarial chills. THE Brooklyn School Board is "mismanaged;" that of Chicago is "corrupt;" Cincinnati complains of a "ring;" Buffalo would trade hers off for last year's cabbages. THEY have a venerable gateman over at the Median depot who, instead of the usual "Show yer tickets?" accosts you with "Whar to, stranger?" It sounds a little uncouth at first, but you get used to it.-Philadelphia Bulletin. THE art of photography has attained such proportions in Australia that a picture five by three feet has been printed from a single negative. It will soon be possible to take all of Star Route Brady's cheek at one sitting. DR. HODGES, of St. Louis, lately took a pound of adipose tissue from the neck of a well-known real-estate agent of that city.-Exchange: That's nothing, Chicago real estate agents are obliged to have their cheeks pared three times a week to prevent them growing over their eyes. A CHICAGO artist who, it is said, can earn $10,000 a year, has been an habitual drunkard for five or six years. His wife has sued a saloon-keeper for $25,000 damages on the ground that it is due to his influence that her husband squanders his money and neglects his work. He should have stuck to the water colors she thinks, and not have tinted his countenance as he has done. MISS Elting, of Port Jarvis, New York, on Thursday heard the dog barking outside, and discovered a man on the roof. She ordered him down, and when he came she collared him. He struggled desperately, trying to throw her into the river. She finally got him down, and placing her knees on him held him until help arrived. If the burglar should only marry her and take her into partnership what business they would do. |