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Gossip and Gleanings.
Mean time at Greenw;ch-the defeat of
Gladstone's colleague by the tories.
The superiority of some men is merely To-
cal. They are great because their associates
are little. ....
One of the critics says there are two books
not to be sneezed at-Dr. Wyman's "Autum-
nal Catarrh' and Hoppin's SHAY Fever"
Will the carbolic amulets, stitched into our
last years waistcoats for small pox and epi-
zootic, answer for this years cholera? h
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage's new volume is
announced by an irreverent critic as series
of ''Sky-R Rocket Sermons. eH
They are having very exciting times at Rye
Beach, and the Rye has great deal more to
do with it than the Beach.
A little girl at Mason, Mich, has lived four
years without a name, her fastidious parents
not being able to find one to their taste.
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Happy he who is not ashamed of his first
enthusiasm, but looks back to IL with natural
piety, as to the parent Of what he now is.-
Robertson. -a q. tat
Thoughts come into our minds BY avenues
which we never left open, and thoughts 60
out of our minds through avenues which we
never voluntarily opened.
The tapir which got through the Custom
House at New York in an irres ular manner,
was not the red-taper which infests some OF
the Government offices, but of another specie.
An Allegheny man lost a bible on the bat
tie field of Fredericksburg in 1862, and has
just had it restored to him by an ex-Confed
crate. s.....r .r.
Utah is the place for developing female ec-
centricities. There is woman making afIa.
davit in court there, that she no onger wishes
to be called Young e
The taste for emotion may become dan
gerous taste we should be very cautious how
we attempt to squeeze out of human life more
ecstacy aud paroxysm than it can well afford.
Sydney Smith,
The dying words of Delaware woman
we'e: "Henry, if you marry again, remember
that it only takes cupful of sugar to sweeten
quart of gooseberries. asa .e. T --r
A Lafayette blacksmith, who don't know
one note from another, does remarkable fan
tastes on the piano. By careful handling he
makesi1a piano last him three weeks. The
Rubinstein school isn't adapted to beginners.
etf -a4 - t- f, rr.
Among the premiums at the Tippecanoc
County lind. Fair in September, are Hand
soonest and best developed babies, 500; second
handsomest and best developed baby, S25
third handsomest and best developed baby,
SIS. ln. r44 f.
A Detroit dog accidentally bit woman
whom be was assisting in pursuit of rat
some time ago, and she has just died of by
drophobia, though the dog went about hi
business and has never let on that he had j
at all.
Not least among the sagest of domestic
n,axin1s is the remark that man has nc
business in the kitchen anyhow; and fooling
around the cooking range sooner or later
teaches him the truth of this, unless he can
ing il.
A fifteen-foot alligator came down upon
bathing party at Moriana, Fla, and az
ter grinning and chuckling to himself at their
antics for awhile, he quietly licked up small
negro boy under his arm and struck out for
deep water. The boy didn't like it, but he
was drowned before he could yell much.
The Commercial balloon will probably start
for Asia about the middle of last month.
Out OF the five hundred persons who have
thus far volunteered to accompany the voya-
gers, four hundred and ninety-nine have
mothers-in-law. 1t might as well be under
stood right here that we don't intend that bal
loon for an eleemosynary insttution.-N. Y.
Com. Adoertiser.
Peoria citizen claims to have stone that
General Washington threw at woodpecke1
on his father cherry tree. Perhaps he has
but as relic of the Father of his Country, 1t
sinks into insignifcance in comparison with
the one owned by Norristown man. The
latter has the ''lie" George couldn't telp
about the cherry tree. He can tell it often.
Daniel Webster is not the only bright boy
born in New Hampshire. The Boston Globe
has heard of another-a youth residing in
Dover, who refused to take pill. His crafty
mother thereupon secretly placed the pill in
a preserved pear, and gave to him. Present
ly she asked, "Tom. have you eaten the
pear?" He said, eyes, mother, all but the
seed"
A subscriber wrote to the editor of a New
ark paper to ask the meaning of the phrase
Mors omnibus commands, The editor said it
was French sentence, intended to explain
something about Morse's omnibus being of
service to the community. At the same time
he said, the sentence was evidently construct