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] iwlll be a baptizihg ln this place. the candidates being four adults and flree aduleresses
 Aetnal occurrence in Chicago fsaeet car Ssylsh lsdy holding Hap dog is about ready % leave ihe lear. Deg manifests inpatience. Lady in her seasest tones, 's,s;t,
 darling. Ell mamma puts on bez glove" Pangels roar with hugh ter
 Lady cumstomer: My little boy wishes for . Noah's Ark. Have you one Toyman No mum. no. " eye give up keeping Noah's Iark since the school board came in. They were considered too denominational
 A fearful suggestion-Fred to chum1-I dreamed about you last night, Bob Bob-I hope 1t was pleasant Fred-0h. yesl very pleasant while 1t lasted. l dreamt that you paid tue ten dollars you owed me.
 4 member of fashionable ups town congregation called at music store and inquired Have you the notes Of piece eallel the 'tSong of Solomon gn adding: Our pastor re- ferred to it yesterday morning as an exquisite gem, and my wife would ike to learn to play t.
 Biddy to old gent. --Please help a poor woman with siven small child ren, all to-. Good natured old gent
 who knows her. Yss, but say, don't your family increase rather too rapidly2 Last week it was only five. Biday (not a bit abashed. -Sure and isn't 1t all the more reason yer. honor should help me ugin ?
 The St. Gothard tunnel has been bored. from both sides, 13 .4S1 yards, or nearly ' 3-4 miles, making it the longest opening of the kind n sbe world, while there are still 3 600 wards to be cut through The Mount Cenis tunnel IS 1S, ,458 yards long in all.
 Chicot county circuit court, Ar- kansas. has indicted one James C. Carlton for obtaining religion under false pretences. The bill of indict- ment says Carlton professed change of heart. and the members of the Baptist church, being credulOus, ad- mit1ed bim to Sbe fold. About last November he began to show "a re- probacy of mind and contempt of his obligations to the church., contra " to the statuet in such cases made and provided. and against the peace and dignity of the Baptist church. 7
 Minister KassOn. writing from Vienna, says the Russien plague ex- cites great alarm in Germany, Aus tria and Hungary; that nearly all the patients die; that six army surgeons, and nearly aIl who came in contact with the dead, had died, although disinfectanp were freely used. The. mortality among the sick in some places was equal to 100 per cent.
 Truth thinks Weston's walk of 2 1000 miles in fifty-fve days is no great feat, and says If a Baro- net had not bet him R500 to k100 thathe would fail to do it. if he were not accompanied by an omnibus. and arrayed in a black velvet coat, blue neckcloth, and embroidered shirt. he would attract as little notice as did his silly counayman who travers- es England on foot q year or two ago with an American flag in his hand. 2
 When a dog snaps at q fly that has been fooliug around him for four or five hours, and misses it. he feels like a girl who pours the full tide of her affections over a young man and sud- denly discovers it won't soak in.
 An agent who had sold a Dutch man seme goods was to deliver them at the residence of the purchaser. The Dutchman gave him the follow 1 ing directions You shoost goes behind de church. den you turns to de right for 3 while till you see a house init . big hog in der yard. Dots me.
 What did you do then ?" asked : Colonel George, ufter badgering 2 withess in the Lowell railroad case at Salem. s.I went to the rescue, like q lawyer for map's pocketboOk, :" re- piled the witness, and the retort was enjoyed all around.
 IF n man could count at the rate Of hundred dellars q minute, and work sixteen hours a day, it would take i.t,, o.,..,. <i,t-trr s.o.,..c fo oo,,t,t o hf7-