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Show .. . Sunset Cox reports that he is pleased, not displeased, with his Ministership to Turkey. Constantinople is a beautiful city, and Samuel enjoys life there, although al-though he cannot rise and throw "chestnuts" "chest-nuts" at the Sultan as he once did at "Mr. Speaker." "What is the matter with the patient?" asked a young and illiterate physician. "Whv, he is convalescent," was the answer of the hospital attendant. "Oh," responded the physician, "that's nothing. I can cure convalescence in three houra." A New York woman has been driven insane from the effects of bleaching her hair. It may be remarked in mitigation that a woman who bleaches her hair hasn't much brain to injure. Miss Lilly Curry, a New York poet, is freely accorded the distinction of being the prettiest literary woman in America, The time for buying new diaries and writing the same old good resolutions on the first page is rapidly approaching. . What is the use of picking on the United States navy all the time ? The Tallapoosa has been repaired and will go to sea. Pouring M. Grevy on the troubled waters of French politics appears to have no effect. |