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Gossip and Gleanings.
The hight of Impertinence-To ask Jew
what his Christian name isl
A Pennsylvania sheriff got S5 for the stump
of a cigar smoked by gay murderer ON his
way to the gallows.
The sweetest child in Frankfort, KY, is the
one who fell into barrel of new-made
sorghum.
A poor and humble street preacher in Lon
don killed man for disputing his theory of
the creation.
Rev. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville, wants
to know where our boasted freedom, is when
Cady Stanton, San infdel apostle of the J.
Stuart Mill school" is allowed to lecture
Chicago has petrified baby. 1t was petri-
fed with astonishment at seeing its father
and mother get through one day without
quarreling or threatening divorce.
A Kentucky huckster has over his stall this
impressive moral injunction: ''Any Man or
Boy that takes one APPEL Without Leafe is
It'll Roge in his harte"
Pat Hogan of Lemonte, ILL.,, undertook to
contest the right-of-way with locomotive,
and was scattered over two miles of the
track, sadly impairng his future usefulness.
George Washington, 8tat IL, has been
committed to reformatory institution for
juvenile delinquents in Iowa, and VOWS that
hereafter he'll tell any number oflies rather
than 'own up'' his misdemeanors.
Lucy Wilson, of Nelson, New Hampshire,
would make good mother-in-law. In three
years she has pieced seven large quilts, knit
seven pairs of fancy cotton stockings, and
innumerable pairs of wooden socks.
The London agent of the Associated Press
telegraphs us that Sergeant Bates 'has been
well received in Birmingham" If he had
told us that Bates had been well licked it
would have afforded us much more satisfac-
ton.
The ghost of a much-fogged school boy
has come back to haunt the teacher of a
Newburyport (Mass.) school. The teacher
went tor the ghost with hickory gad, but it
wasn't of whipable stuff, and only grinned
daboicaly.
A Cincinnati editor thinks that war, pesi-
lence and famine always follow one another.
We have had war, are now having pestilence,
and, he thinks, will soon have the famine
Like Joseph, of Egypt, he is laying in an
immense supply of corn; only he takes it in
its fluid form.
Paris papers state that between 1910 and
1872 no fewer than 1900 of the public officials
arises whether this be not ruse of the
shrewd Theirs to intimidate the office-seek
ers. We wonder if that plant would grow al
Washington.
The Danbury Necs thinks ''there is some
thing dreadfully annoying in watching per
son doing simple thing in bungling man
ner- A Cherry street man thought neigh
Dor wasn't harnessing mule as he ought to-
and took hold to help, fand Immediately ex.
changed the role Of a Samaritan for roll in
the mud. He says no man need look for per.
feet happiness in this world.
Two country boys had fight about CIR
at Harrel Station, ILL.,, the other day, anG
were harmlessly pummelling each other
when great, clumsy "duffer" of peace
maker came along, and in his blundcrine
efforts to separate the boys he killed one O
| them. There should be exceptions taken t.
his inhentng the blessing and the promised
kingdom.
| 1t is not generally known that Cochse
the Apache butcher, is something of spirit
ualist, and never scalps victim except il
obedience to intimations from the spiri
world. He has also dabbled in theology, ant
| explains the perpetual feud between his tribe
and the whites by the fact that there are two
particular devils, one an Apache and the
other Yankee, who are always fightin;
themselves and fomenting rows between
their respective parties on earth.
About four weeks ago a Mr.. Cheeney, O