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Show MERE DIVERSION. (From Western Publisher.) Half the dead letters of the land are right now in the pockets of husbands who have forgotten to mail them. A K.tnsus f.irmer nf the name of Thomas Catt was hit by the piledrtver attachment to n mule nnd killed. His wife nnd four little Cats mourn Tom Catts un timely death. Scat! Cats! Rals! A story comes from Emporia, Knn., to the effect that a small boy startled the passengers on a street car recently by crying out: "Wait a minute 'ill I get my clothes off 1" The conductor waited nnd the lad climbed down and pulled e basket of clothes after him. Those "merry widow" hats would make fine circular saws, In Charles City, la., one of 'em -blew off the head of a careless young thing and rnliiug nmdly down the stieel, cut off a dog's tail, pared a slice from the handle of the town pump, nnd making a dash along the hitching pole south of the public square, cut the tie straps ot 47 tenms, libcrat-ing libcrat-ing them for one of the maddest runaway mix-ups the place hits ever experienced. The hat then fell over on the crown part and set to spinning until it wore a 'H large hole in the pavement and completely disappeared. The next morning an oil well spouted where the hat went down and the mayor sent to Chicago by tele-graph tele-graph for four dozen merry. widow hats to be used in oil-well H prospecting. |