Show BREVITIES and criminal joke of aiming a firearm at a friend in play has been none too heavily punished in a baltimore case casu where lewis krumm gained a verdict of against nicholas reich for injuries inflicted in that manner in a common dinner service servie it is a great evil to make the plates too hot as it variably invariably in cracks the glass on the surface if not the plate itself we all know the result jesuit it comes apart nobody broke it it was cracked before or cracked a long time ago an exchange has an acquaintance who wilo remarks that lie he has often heard the proverb A friend in need is a friend indeed but he says mys he cant cantsee can ean tsee see where the laugh comes in he has a friend orlend in need who is always bo borrowing money molley of him show me a radical gentleman said a politician pol poi it ician lelan and ill pil sli all show rhew ow y you oun oua a liar 1 11 I sl sir r am one I 1 exclaimed a ready opponent just come round the tile corner was the reply gand and land ull uli you a fellow who said sald I 1 find a aradi radi radl calin the ward they have an effectual way of getting rid of wooded boodet pavements in san francisco whenever they buige buice up as such pavements have a way of doing the poor people attack them with picks and axes and carry off the wood for use in their stoves A hollander who had buffered suffered ered an involuntary fast of thirty seven days while lying sick in his garret and unable to attract the attention of any one was taken to the hospital at antwerp the other day and the doctors think they can bring him through chehad he had a pitcher of cf water in the garret and that kept him alive dr holland says a reign of inal infidelity and unbelief is approaching it has already approached it is even here if the apostle paul was installed tomorrow to morrow hed herd preach to t empty benche sunless it was ww proved hed herd been turned out of heaven for flitting flirting with jepthae Jept Jep thas hays dau daughter ahter or hannah hanbali moore al or orsome some other bible woman ex in 1839 1639 the mayor of savannah I 1 ga in accordance with the law then in force in boston issued a proclamation in which ho he prohibited under penalty of a fine smoking in the public streets of that city it was then considered ungentlemanly to smoke in public and none done but the negroes of city tile the were in the habit of doing so 0 tile tiie WATCH ON 01 tius THE NILE A cairo correspondent writes under date of september 26 A visit to the nile at the present moment well weli repays the trouble and inconvenience ven veni lence ence of a few hours journeying through the dust and heat beat and to kaar camitta and other places have been very frequent thousands Thousand of laheen fellaheen fall fali abeen peasants are constantly employed in watching the river heaping up earth idd ind idd stones on the embankments and acl strengthening the weak points as they appear against an overflow and inundation at night the whole length of the river below cairo Is ia illuminated by innumerable watch gires fires that throw an uncertain I light ht on the swarthy half naked m multitudes that line its banks while the cries of the soldiery as they urge tile tiie people on to renewed labor ilko ilke the task masters of ancient times mingled with the sound of the ruehl rushing n g waters complete a spectacle t that hat once seen can never be forgotten and the knowledge that the fate of thousands depends on the issue of the struggle going on adds a solemnity to a scene that must be seen to be appreciated 11 er |