Show wit and wisdom Lord Monk the viceroy of the new dominion of canada gets a year in gold for his services george georga peabody proposes this summer to loin join his bis son bon inlaw in i law sir curtis campson Vamp L ampson son at Gilder mory in ross shire the a shootings boo tings of which have been rented from sir E berison Ke rison mr gladstone will take the chair at jhc thc press fund dinner at wills rooms on the of july all the celebrities of literature are arc down in the list of stewards in portland me the liquor law ial is a tl thing ling of the past all the old resorts on fore are closed ono one of them has put up the following placard bar taken out prayer meeting at four the news from tennessee looks as if the negroes had been made to know their fiends they vote unanimously with the republicans brownlow elected by a majority of twenty five to thirty thou prentice qua quotes tes the remark of a new york paper that suicide is becoming alarmingly prevalent in that city and says bays we fear there are few cities where it could prevail with greater advantage to the world at large the amador Amad orDis patch is an enthusiastic paper it is down on the yankees most os par particularly acu icu ar y a as the e follo follon wing ing ap peal pe alwill will show the he dis patch says lean glean t them em out the psalm salin singing puritans ur itans who will neit neither er drink nor fight tho the time table of the recent railroad convention froni from fromnes new york to louisville is 39 hours bourg from louisville to memphis 19 houra honra from memphis to new orleans 26 hours the aggregate is 26 hours less than by the supplanted time tat le in the case of alexander dumas vs the photographer libbett Lie li ebert bett for selling belling the pictures of himself and the he Menken 31 enken the court has decided that tho the photo grapher must accept the loof offered by dumas as an indemnity for his outlay and give up the pictures to the novelist A writer in a london paper says our irish chief secretary being tile the owner of a fine ostrich which some flays days aap was bately delivered livered cle of an an ogg egg rece received ivea the following telegram from bid ste steward wara my lord asdour as your lordship is out of the country I 1 have procured the biggest goose I 1 could find to sit on the ost richs egg A boy was relating flig how his father had just come in from hunting and bragged of ef having killed nine hundred and ana ninety nine at one shot why ho he call it a thou thousand asked a bystander good He avenal eaid the be boy y do you think my father would tell tolla a lie ojust just for one pigeon wedderburn erburu once asked sheridan how he be got rid of his irish brogue as aa he be wished vial led to detria get rid of his bis scotch acce accent lit my dear fellow said saia sheridan dont attempt such a thing the house listens to you now because they dont understand you but if you become intelligible telli gible they will be able to take your measure ERA or OF FREEDOM six years have witnessed the emancipation of serfs in russia the liberation of slaves in the united states and ana the virtual manumission of negroes in brazil As a says it is a glorious six years of men restored to freedom 7 and a curse taken off three of the largest empires in the wild As of the utility of logic we vc give the following A sharp student was v is called up hy by the tha worthy pio fessor feasor of a celebrated college and by him was asked the questions question can a man r out eyes yes sir how dr cried the amazed professor leau can a man see sec without r eyes pray sir how do you made that out he can see sec with one pir replied rep lica the ready N witco attea yonah and the whole class alio shouted buted witt with delight at hs bi t s triumph over ov or metaphysics on ona occasion as the rov hov matthew wilks i a celebrated loudon london preacher was on his way wa y to a meeting of ministers he got caught iu in a shower in a place called billingsgate where there of women dealing in in fish who were using profane and vulgar language aslie ash 1 stopped gaj cd under a shed in the midst of them ho he felt called upon to give at least his hia testimony against eked ness 1 D said lie he speaking liVe ration and eol BOY 1 eriety I shall ahall appear as aa a swift witness ment defill against you in tile tho day aay of judge T presume so said eaid one for the he t evidence biggest rogues always turri turn states mastbe en he got to tho the lug ing fela the incident meet did aid you in say reply ilk wilkes said ono one ministers minister a present i 1 iwas the at luct V oc T |