Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-25

Castle Rock, Colorado, has a piano
and the coyotes are leaving town.
Out in Montana, when they start
q man down hill in q barrel, they
speak of him as appearing in a new
roll.
Those Cofeans don't propose to
keep a hotel for shlpwrecked people.
That's why they beheaded eighteen
japanese unfortunates who were
cast on their coast, not long ago.
A Minnesota mare has kicked
down three stables and killed her
mate. The st. Paul Pioneer now
recommends that she be turned
loose on the insurance agents and
lightning-rOd men.
Christopher Columbus! Here's
Ole Bull pursuing researches in the
hope of showing that Erickson dis
covered this continent. Fiddle
sticks! Let Bull come back and
take q few more benefits.
Andy Johnson will delivert the 4th
of July Grafton at Pembroke, Mary
land. "Ninety-eight years ago our
forefathers-and permit me to re-
mark i'm this connection that / have
held every Office from alderman
Of"
Salt Lake has been victimized by
q Snowman who announced that he
would cause a 'human body to ap-
pear and disappear before the audi
ence." He appeared, got their mo-
ney and disappeared. He filled the
programme.
Benjamin Franklin's autograph
has reached Michigan, and it makes
one feel lonesome to see the tears
trickling down the cheeks of aged
ladies, as they gaze upon the ven-
cradle relic, written on paper made
in 1869.
Bannack Jim stepped into the ci-
gar store at Boise, Idaho, a few days
ago, and asked to borrow a pencil.
AS Indians r not generally good
writer's, be was asked why he want
ed it. "Oh, me play poker-me
want to mark 'em cards"
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
there is danger that Mr.. Bancroft
will go on with his history. The
bare suggestion makes the question
as to whether he will take passage
by q steamer of the French Trans
Atlantic Line q matter of the most
thrilling interest.
A granger on the Big Thompson,
Colorado, writes to the Master Ofthe
State Grange that a party of potato
bugs appeared at his house and de-
manded old potatoes to chew until
the new tops were large enough to
be of some account to them.
At this season Of the year the
knowing young man stands out in
the moonlight and tenderly says:
"Ask me anything else, dearest;
but dOn't-dOn'I entreat me to sit
down and wait q few minutes. Jane,
those steps have just been painted.
I've been there before"
Imagine the chagrin and disap-
pOintment of the Herald's intellect
ual department, if the paper con-
tanning ROchefort's letter had not
been seized In Paris. James Cor
don would have felt that the money
he expended on the communist had
been thrown away.
A large number of Americans
have visited the tomb of Moham-
med this season, and come away ut
terly disguised and heart-sick. The
Oriental Cerberus in charge watch
ed them SO closely that they didn't
get chance to use their jack-knives.
-Rrooklyn Argus,
of that physiognOmy ever peeps
over this desk at me again, you'll
think Pm a pile-driver and you are
a mouse. TrOt out of here and don't
tarry to see what becomes of the
rest" Such were the words of the
Detroit judge who fiourishes i'm the
columns Of the Free Press.
A st. Louis reporter, who rode on
the train that passed over the re-
markable bridge at that place a few
days ago, seems to think that a ride
over the new structure, is preferable
to being hanged. He says: ave
can almost realize the thought of
suspension in the atmosphere, with
out the sens of hazard usually asso-
ciated with SO insubstantial a sup
port as the 'fino0rporal air."
The English interviewing reporter
does not check himself too much i'm
the presence of royalty. He says
that Alexis has the form of Hercu-
les, and the head of an Assyrian
Emperor. Nobody cares particu-
larry about the form of Hercules,
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