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divorced in one day recently.
The recent Governor Bullock was once
telegrapher. He certainly left Geor
gia with lightning dispatch.
There is a town in Dallas county
Iowa, all the male residents of which are
aldermen. Inc town is Alder.
Excuse me, madam, but ! would like
to ask why you look at me SO savagelyY
Oh, beg pardon, sir; took you for my
husband"
A bill is before the Utah legislature
providing that boys of fifteen and girls
of twelve may marry, with the consent
of their parents. i5.
A gentleman in the East has sent Q
$50 note to the wife of every Presbyterian
missionary west of the Mississippi whose
address he could obtain.
White cravats for gentlemen in full
dress are no longer considered CONNIE il
faut, and black silk, black or brown lace,
has been substituted,
The Russian Swing, as introduced in
St. Louis by Count Tudeer, is to super
sede the Boston Dip; it is a cross be-
tween slide and break down.
Henri Rochefort is reported to be en-
gagged upon a life of Napoleon III, of
which the title will be " Historic du Bas
Empire; GU, las Aventures de Robert
Macaire.'
A Vermont clergyman gets S5l a
year, and they do say he earns every
cent of it. There are some who get a
hundred times as much, and never think
Of earning it. h1
1t is announced that the duke is GO
ing to Havana. This is a great disap-
pointment to our girls, as of course, if
he is going to have Anna, no other girls
need apply.
1--WE eat 100000 bushels of peanuts 3
year" says the editor of the Chicago
Post. The dyspeptic condition of the
Post seemedNo render such an announce
ment unnecessary.
Langley, of the Chicago Mail, was
born on the 18th of February, and can't
have birthday anniversary but once in
four years. He hasn't the slightest idea
how old he is.
Senator Wilson is responsible for the
statement that there is not now hard
drinker in congress. This is accounted
for by the fact that so many congress
men drink easy.
Miss Susan B. Anthony seems not
without honor says an exchange, "in
Rochester, her own country" Then,
why the dickens isn't she content to stay
in her own country
The sums spent in the construction of
the new opera house in Paris, up to the
present time, including this years grant,
amount to $4,000, 600 francs, 100000
francs being still required to complete it.
A thick-lipped Scion in the South
Carolina Legislature recently spoke of
Ben. Butler as "de cullud mans Sa-
vior." He was evidently disposed to
put literal Interpretation upon the
scriptural declaration that the Savior
shall come like thief in the night"
A citizen Of North Stonington, Conn,
buried his frst wife, and inscribed upon
her tomb An Angel on Earth-A Saint
in Heaven" which was all right But
when he buried his second alongside
his first, the marble dealer inscribed on
her tomb Another Angel on Earth
Another Saint in Heaven" aud the
neighbors want to know how long this
thing is going to last?
While old Borie was showing Grant
around Philadelphia the other day, some
body asked that heart-ofoak whether he
could box the compass Drawing him
self up like an indignant mariner, with
a simeon sweeping from across his brow,
he withered the interlocutor into iRsig-
nifcance by replying, "Sir, / always
trust such affairs to my carpenter"
A whole seminary fall Of Kalamazoo
girls are travelling in the old world, and
recently one Of them wrote an account
Of their ascent Of the pyramids with the
Emperor of Brazil, and remarked that
the young ladies we're assisted by rude
natives. The letter was published in
Michigan paper, and the sentence allud-
ed to was geographically metamor-
phOsed thus we we're assisted in our
ascent BY nude natives"
The Norwich Bulletin has the follow
ing; The other evening a gentleman
gave a booi-black a fve-dollar piece,
installing it in the dusk for a cent. The
boy discovered the error at once, and