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---t-. ''t~-- ~.'~ 1>--9 "----~ ND~ t1f'if " ete rides once in a year wants at least four.
 Ben Butler was saIuted ui,h fftv guns at WobuTn, Mass. 4 dollar te a dime that cunning oli rascal paid for the powder, lbe matches, the whisky, and the wear aud tear of the
 cannon.
 A German at the Milwaukee Police
 Court rather worried his bonor by
 saying thas his occupation had been
 that of acobkler of liquor. The court
 asked for an explanation, which. with
 the chuckle that accompanied it. cost 1 the prisoner five dollars more. He
 said ..I haf soled drinks. ''
 In 1872, according to the Railroad
 Gazette, greater number of miles lof new road was laid than in any
 one year before or since, namely.
 i ,623 miles. Since 1872, new track
 has been laid, as follows 1873, 2. 5O7 miles 1874, 1925; 1875.
 TAG; 1876, ,556; 1871, 1 ,223 ]; I1878, 1.aT3.
 h one of Boston's most saact6ed religious family papers, the Gol,I-n
 Rule, we notice the last page is oc-
 cupied as follows Three columns of Gar6eld's Boston speech; two col lumns of an illustrated rifle. shot gun.
 revolver, etc, advertisement; seven inches of corsets" illustrated five inches of liver pads, and about eight
 inches of small miscellaneous adver- ltisements. 1t seems from this that
 our religions cotemporary believes in
 teaching the young idea how to shoot.
 to lace, and also how to keep your liver in good order.
 Southern newspapers are lament
 ing the death of Rev. A. J Ryan,
 the pOet-priest. He IS said to have
 fallen victim to the yellow fever at Chattanooga. Father Ryan was
 probably the first poetic genius in the South. With almost morbid deyo-
 ton to the Confederate cause, be em-
 balmed its pathos and passion in
 verses which have achieved rare pop lulariry among those who shared h:s
 feelings, and were really of very l high order of meriI. Ills Conquered Banner, " ".'Sword of Lee, !" and Lee to the Rear" have been set to music, adorn the pages of .Declaimers" " and Readers, and are constantly reappearing m Southern and English
 newspapers.
 The Burlington HaWkeye has the
 follomng "Ethel Vane" sends us
 poem, "Why Does Sweet Slumber
 Shun My Eyes s'' Why? Sit down { here, Ethel, where We can tickle your rosy ear with the waxed end of 3
 short mOustache, while we whlsper to 2 you that when a girl scarcely nineteen ! years old eats an eight o'clock sup | per of cold tongue, broiled steak f salt mackarel, fried potatoes, dough- n nuts, cold apple pie, fried eggs, a fresh peaches, slice of water melon ! and two cups ot coffee, mortified e slumber will pack it's trunk and . climb on to the first train that will ,f take 1t farthest away, and all the e poetry in the Baptist College wont e bring 1t back to you for week : Don't ask any more such eOnih-
 drums, Ethel these are stirring
 earnest times, that thrill with pen h and impending danger, and our liai le IS tuned to Ioftier strains.
 or The great queue question IS nov nl what agitates San Franciscan citizen g of Chinese origin. The sheriff has OeeI ,. cutting of the plg-tall adornlnents Q E his aimOnd-eyed prisoners. by ylrtu .n of an ordinance to that effect, aud r. frightful hubbub he has caused, fo as the victims regard themselves ss for if eyer disgraced by the loss of thei D. carefully cultivated appendages
 Long Ah Kit. Con Lin, Chong Lonl
 Ling and Faag Nit have just bega se suit m the United States Circui at Court against the sheriff, and the at claim $l0,000 damages each. Fou i- other euia, by gentlemen who's rt names sound much like these jus ye given, have been pending For som nd weeks, and fifteen more are preparinI nd sheir papers to begin proceedings Q. The sheriff is not 30 cheeiful as b
 was when he vas yielding his littl th scissors, and would rather proyld J the irate Mongoliaus with tirst-rat switches of '.real halr' than ps
 them the S230 GOO.