, 1875-02-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

A BlI-SDERBUss-Kissing the wrong
girl.
THE kerosene oil-can is blowing up the
| japanese.
The tax which presses most heavily on
schoolbOys-Syn-tax.
WHEN is literary work like smoke:
| When il rises in volumes
Why is dog like tree! Because
| both lose their bark when dead
WHAT word is that of which, if you
take away the first letter, all Will still re
main. Fall.
SENATOR JONES spent his honeymoon
| at Tubb's hotel That Tubb was full OF
sweetness, sure.
The production of lace occupies 24O,-
900 women in the dep--tments OF Caiva-
dos auu Auvergne, fra4.ce-
A BOOK has been published called
- Half Hours with Insects" The au-
thor was not d regular boarder.
Mrs. ATTY..GES WILLIAMS Is wearing
the best clothes of anybody in Washing
ton this winter, jenkins says.
OF Alp women who applied for relief
from the Nesmith poor fund OF Lowell,
Mass, in 1874, 10 were deserted wives.
OVER $4,000 MennOnites have already
their homes with US, and their Immlgra-
ton 10 the United States is on the IN
crease.
ALLUDING to New York fashions, the
Herald saws: In some Of the new styles
there is no change. Poor relatives are
cut the same as last year.
FORKS came into use in 400, but there
is A man living in the woods of West Nir-
| ginia who never saw one, eXceptthe forks
! of the road
Or 92,I12 persons arrested IN New
York city last year, 6S,36S were able 10
read and write and only 3,lOf we're IN
able to do so.
THE doctors couldn't tell whether a
! Cairo man had bilious colo or hydropho-
| bia and allowed him to die Of ln1lamma-
tion of the lungs
SHEEP in Australia and Tasmania have
| increased within the last six years from
5, ,S66, ,O9S to 45, 1876, ,210 and cattle from
| 3,574, 1873 to 5,l23,45
MARSHAL BAzAINE's wife is no longer
a heroine. She is brave and all that but
she won't get up in the night and shake
down the coal stove
THE Paris Constitutional says: " VI.
Bismarck endeavors to maintain radical
ism among us as an heir would encourage
! his uncle's bronchitis"
JUsr 96,430, 500 cards, in 9,147 pack
ages, were shipped from the postsLcard
factory in Springfield, Mass, during the
quarter ending Jan. /.
IT Is now proposed to improve the
sand blast by using small grains Of shot
They cut more rapidly because they are
not broken by the impact
VoLTAIRE said of his sweetheart; " She
was so beautiful that | raised my
long, thin body and stood before her
! like point of admiration"
\ YOUNG man in WateTyIllc has found
a lady'S gold nctk chain, and adyertiscS
for the owner to come and be elapsed
around the neck.-Rone Sentinel,
ADAM KLEIN, a Frisco barber, being
refused by~Johanna Dilter, rendered her
a choice between a wedding and funer-
al. She merely slapped his face.
The English are making little progress
in base ball. Whenever one of them
hits ball he runs away with the bat,
and they all keep on smoking while they
play.
THINK of that When YOU take girl
to spelling-school in Nevada you have to
ride twenty-four miles, and she expects
you to keep your arm around her all the
timel
A DUTcH dwarf is now being exhibited
in Paris who is scarcely three feet high.
He speaks five languages perfectly and
is the proprietor Of five houses at the
Hague.
IT Is estimated that the aggregate
number Of Northerners visiting Florida
this season will reach 10000, or some
thing rather in excess OF the total fol-
last year.
! THERE'S where a man has the advan
tage He can undress in a cold room and
have his bed warm before a woman has
got her hair-pins out and her shoes united
Detroit Free Press
THEY are laughing at a New Ipswich
Mass man who kept alittle ardent II
u milk-Can, and by mistake filled 1t VI
with milk. sending eight quarts of weak
punch to the Boston market.
A sCHOOLMAsTER thus describes {
money-lender: "He serves YOU in the
present tense, he lendsin the conditional
mood, keeps you in the subjective anc
ruins you in the future tense"
IL Missouri there are about 74S,OOC
children between five and twenty-ont
years of age, about 5000 schools, about
10000 teachers, and 100000 enrolled
scholars.
THE pool" just dissolved, formed b!
the New England cotton manufacturer
for the lesSening of production, embraced
134 mills and 100000 spindles. 1t wa
in existence for only about two months
TIE French Government has pu
down smuggling dogs" the friend o
man was trained to cross the frOntIe
between Belgium and France with thre,
pounds of tobacco round his neck for
collar
THE Warm Spring Indians were aban
dOned at Troy by their agent, $3.50 il
debt for board, They wanted TO put OF
Overcoats, smoke, play seYen-up and real
the daily papers, and the agent cOuldn'
stand it,
4 RHODE ISLAND railroad having beel
sued for killing johnson Day prove,
that he was too lazy 10 even hurral
for liberty on the Fourth of July, AM
the widow received only $500 damage
where $40 600 were claimed.