The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-19
EAEHEETEFS.

-ONG Of the secis-Put me IN my lit
tla bed
The Japanese have adopted the postal
card system.
The first shad are selling in North Car
DINA at 81 90 each.
There VIII he four murder trials in
( Berhs county, Pa, in April
The daughter Of ex-senator Ross of
Kansas IS one of the rising politicians Of
The sta-e
a young lady in Vermont is six feet
seven inches high, and She isn't stuck up,
either,
The remark has been made of the
ua # the period that ''she don't
ueh to bile water"
t.afal Interstate exhibition for Min
'isconsin, and Illinois will be
held Dubuque in September next
1t is true that tbe names of the battles
Of The American Revolution do not APP
pear on the regimental flags OF England
The Boston Post says THE decline in
whaling Is thought to be owing to the
abolition Of corporal punishment in the
schools
A clergyman in New Hampshire told
his people last Sunday that it was folly
10 undertake to run churches without
brains and Q m0ther-wit.
A conductor en- the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad telegTaphed from Derry station
recently: '.Train DELAYED fifteen minutes
ON account Of lady. Don't know whether
/ it's boy or a girl
/ How fast they build houses now!" said
+ H. "tbey began that building last week,
and now they are putting in the lights.
Yes. answered his friend, land next
week they viii put in the liver"
My dear, said a husband to his wife,
ON observing new striped stockings on his
only heir, ''why have YOU made BARRIERS
poles of our chiid's leg>?' Because he
IS little shaver was the neat reply.
+ An undertaken named Porter has aroused
the autipathy OF people in Lawrence,
Mas Among their accusations is one
/ tbat he learns from physicians where
deaths are about TO occur, and then sends
+ his cards tothe family
Half pound Of shot iudiciously adj
ministered to sympathetic eats, at this
season Of the wear, will bear fruit In in
creased hours of slnmber throughout the
SUMMER and have a tendency to prevent
{ a corner in the chicken market.
I'm illustration Of absent-mindness is
+ told of an excited young drug clerk who
filled his customers bottle with the lini-
ment desired, and receiving therefore a
nice new twenty-five cent shinplaster,
I pasted it on the bottle and put the label
IN the cash drawer.
Are YOU very fond of novels, Mr..
I Jones p Very, responded that inferno
gated gentleman, who wished to be
thought by his lady qnestioner fond OF
+ literature ''Have You, continued the
+ lady, fever read Ten Thousand year,"
No, madam, / never read 50 many in all
my life
4 Worcester gentleman who locked his
combination safe on the word bean was
80 surprised when he gave his clerk the
word that he was unable 10 unlock it,
while the latter was tortured with pangs
nat his employ. u8bitutIiv and with
malice aforethough1 spelled il bepe"
A gentleman builta wing t. his house.
consisting Of Il cellar. over that, a library,
and above that a sleeping room. He
asked the opinion - a friend aboutit who
replied My gear .e.loe. / am afraid
I you are losing yo4r >eg.ss How" ex-
claimed the other w hy, fora Literary
man 10 read over his wine and sleep over
MS books.
/ A negro was buried alive in a well at
Butler recently His friends dug down
81 him in about four hours, and found
! him alive and we'll. He said he never
/ wanted to sneeze so bad in his life, but
was afraid he would jar down some more
dirt a good healthy negro has as firm
a hold upon his life as a cart load of TOM
cats
MacBride Of the Washington Chronicle
was rushing along D street, one day last
summer, pencil in hand, and caromed
/ against Rev. g. A. Hall, who was always
equally in a hurry, through his zeal on
religious chores. S'Halloo, MacI" exclaim-
ed the Rev, g. A., impulsively, taking
| him by both hands, 'sNVhat are YOU do.
ing for Jesus ? .WelI, says Mae, To
tell the truth, | amt doing much. Pm
on the Chronicle now
1t viii be surprise to many to know
that Washington Living was a confessed
orchard thief Once, picking up an ap-
pie under a tree in his own orchard. he
was aecosted BY an urchin Of the neighbor-
hood, who, not recognizing him as the
proprietor, offered to show him a tree
where he could :. get some better apples
than those. But, said the boy, 1--WE
must take care the.old man does't sea us. .
81 Went with him, said Irving, land we
stole dozen Of my own applos."