| Show EASTERN NOTES the tho new now york k star speaking of the terrible plague among the horses asks what shall we do to be saved anna annn dickinson la is inclined to emb amb wong pong so itla bid sid baid and finds it extremely difficult to look pale and thin when ape speaking aking of the sufferings of her sex in But buffalo taio Talo many mothers wait for a sand band zephyr to come along when they set their children out doors and get their faces scrubbed rubbed ec without water or cost A seven year old son of dr J H racey lacey of jacksonville ill III destroyed the eyesight of a younger brother the other day by snapping a whip A woman in the pennsylvania oil regions alons glons lately sold her two weeks old oid baby aby for 10 ani ann soon after wanted it back because another party hv had d offered her 25 for the bantling pickpockets Pick pockets rejoice at th the e prevalence of the horse disease what whal few oarb earb there are upon the roads are so crowded that them the thieves find no difficulty in operating 11 pocketbooks pocket packet books arb vire plentiful gentl among hmong the fraternity leading new york physicians fy that from twenty five hundred to three thousand births occurred in that city out of wedlock in 1871 and that under the old blackwells Blackw ellB island system of band feeding about ninety bix six per cent waife waifs died A protestant Is now in operation for their relief The venerable judge nelson of the united unite states tat e I 1 supreme 0 ourt court having e d the are age of seventy about is to retire retiro r 6 life iffe pension provided b by Y law in the oases cases of su in herb berb beresf of that bench klon kion hon william na M evarte of new W york as his successor the president hag hai the olive logan in her new lecture speaks of the ibe poor rewards of literary labor and saye halo haio the labor I 1 have put into a book for which I 1 have been most moat unmercifully me rei rel fully critic criticized criticised laed would bave have bi secured me a fortune in the millinery line its a maxim of in elty eity that the bumm r quantum of ing shail shall diminish from and after the tho of october biddy allows her young missus three wb white ite ito skirts a week until that time and abd only two after it while the mis missus is often indifferent to this maxim she never openly rebels against it when biddy comes to count the skirts in the basket on monday morning she epitomizes any transgression gres greb slon sion in something like the following soliloquy B ginning beginning Ba with the topmost skirt she counts counte iwana wan tow taray an do me eyes deasee mer mez me foor I 1 may the lord have maicy 0 on rl me but sheh a diab it if the over overhears hears bears this t the barense is not repeated cincinnati times A subscriber asks us the following question which we have already answered in these columns it if our mem ory serves us ua but perhaps to one of a former generation Is a note written in pencil and signed in penell pencil legal we answer yes es story on promissory notes one of our highest in hla his first paragraph touching the requisites qui sites of this form of obligation declares clar olar es that A promissory note must be in writing either in ink luk or pencil that is to say the signature of the must be so the body of the note may be printed this is co conclusive bolusi ve but the coutts courts in a great many eases cawes and without vi a dib dis dissents dissenting senti have confirmed this rule JV Y journal of commerce husbands are probably the most ill used of all classes of persons in the world except wives A man who did not know for what he was vas nominated found out the day after election on inspecting his wine cellar 11 v 1 y r the towns along the river amazon in south america in the midst of the tiie most productive country in the world get meat and flour and dried fruits frog from north america and europe because the people are too lazy to work happy is the country that has no history as the schoolboy said on being flogged the third time for not knowing who was henry the sixths sixtus wife punch A bereaved widower mourns his loss in the following manner only a few days ago I 1 bought be her Y a whole box of pills 1 and she time to take half efthem before she died A gentleman who used to carry on the sheriff business wholesale esala and retail in ontonagon Onto county mich mleh in an early day was frequently called on to quell quela tu tumultuous brawls which he did by rus rushing liftig into the crowd and knocking every man engaged in the row as flat fiat as a flounder and then repeat repeating hig these memorable words over their prostrate bodies say boys all this fuss fass bout abou As Sherif sherlf of ontonagon Onto county I 1 command therace thee the peace ace aee |