Omaha daily bee., 1873-02-27
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with the baby in the night.
The h loridians are now compelled
to use taas, and other "wind-pushers''
to keep cool.
"A Kansas dentist offers to pull
single teeth for a bushel Of potatoes
during the present dull business
season.
In Detroit if you ask a grocer for
burning fluid he hands you a bottle
of old rye neatly labelled and ready
for use.
The Louisville Courier journal
remarks that jury packing has be-
come as much Il business rs pork
packing.
Schenectady, New York wants
the militia called out, because y cock
fight m of there on the 10Th
instant.
M. De Lesseps wants to cut a
canal through the Alps, but he has
not money enough into one dollar
and a half.
In Savannah, Georgia, lately, a
gentlemen had the exquisite pleasure
of catching hismother-in-law robbing
his hen-roost.
--Maysviile, KY, now proudly
points four nitro glycerine factories
as indications of its likelihood to
take a sudden rise.
The snow has melted so that the
farmers in Minnesota are no longer
compelled to replenish their fires by
throwing wood down the chimney.
The local editor of the Buffalo
Express has an g so finely at&uned
to harmonic strains that he visits q
chicken show daily to hear the hens
sing.
There is no tin made in this
country-think of that when you
throw an oyster can away, or pitch an
empty sardine box over in your
neighbours back yard.
From the New York Commercial,
advertiser: "Things in this city are
rapidly going from bad to worse.
Our aldermen do not begin to dres.
as well or eat as much as they used
to-"
No steam whistles are permitted
to be blown within Philadelphia,
limits, but some of the m~anufactur.
ing establishments are putting in
gongs that cal be heard two miles
and which knock a nervous individ.
ual off his pins when sounded.
Between 1000 and 5000 valen,
tines passed through the Rochester
N. Y, post-ofice on the 14th instant
and the clerks were only kept up by
frequent pulls at the Babcock fire.
extinguisher and copious draughts
of Limberger cheese.
WIN. /. Cist, the poet laureate OF
the Cincinnati Commercial, wrote 8
Farewell to Mario" which blazed
out with "Hail, King of Tenors!'
The printer fixed it up so that il
came out, "Hail, King of Terrorsr
The Commercial apologized in the
next issue.-DetroH Tribune.
An oil City boy, one of tina,
class of urchins who seem sent out
upon the earth for the sole purpose
of bringing pious grown-up people tc
a recollection of the fact that this
world is not their home, recently put
some nitro-glycerine in his sisters
hustle when she was going out skat.
ing.
A Boston merchant who paid 9
dollar for a stand-up in the top gal
lery at the opera, recently, was much
gratiied to see several young men oc.
cupying 81 seats in the parquette,
with lady friends at their sides, who
had owed him bills for many months,
and who always professed to be una.
BILE to pay.
"A Cleveland (Ohio) lover, while
going home from the fair ones fire.
side, after a delicious evening Of spark
ing, had his nose split by the frost (so
he sadly ; but when the statement
reached the ears of another youth
who was sweet on the same girl, he
simply gazed at his fist, smiled, and
said "frost-."
There is always something lack.
ing for perfect human contentment
Salisbury, Ct, for example, has a
beautiful new cemetery, which i,
proudly regards as superior to many
of the a c curses in the State y
but, alas! there isn't a doctor in the
place, and the most attractive vaults
actually go begging.
A German Psychologist has dis.
covered that tobacco smoking by
boys "interferes with the molecular
changes co.incidsnt with develop.
ment of tissues, and makes the blood
cOrpuscles oval and irregular at the
edge" Any parent can thus ascer-
tain if his boy smokes by merely
taking out a handful of his blood
corpuscles and observing their edges.