National Republican., 1881-11-23
CIRCUS.

Trained dogs exhibit 80 much intelli-
gence that 1t probably won't be long before there
will be sausage in the market that can talk
Philadelphia Chronicle.
Sweet Nuisance: Can YOU tell me
where you can find perfectly honest man? No;
we cannot. We haven't the remotest idea where
we shall be by the time You read this.-BoSon
Post.
Jones'" What did You think of my
argument, Fogg?" Fogg--"It was sound-yery
sound, Jones is deighted) Nothing but sound,
In fact" Jones reaches for brick.-Bos,on Tran
sciipt
What is that / see? That, my child, is
the NeiVs interviewer, and he Is now interviewing
Man. But where Is the Man? cansee no Man.
The Man, my Child, is in his Mind.-Denrer Tribune
Primer.
New Jersey people have lost faith in
the aphorism that there is nothing like leather"
1t Is proposed to amend 1t SO that It may read
"There is nothing like Morocco leather for burst.
| ing bank.h-Pack.
In recent case Chief-Justce Chapman
observed that experience is not sufficiently uni
form TO raise presumption that one who has
| the means Of paying debt will actually pay it,
From "Odditics ofhe Ldu," by f. H. Heard
A man who will coolly spit on his hands,
pick up the axe and deliberately knock turkey
stone dead and eat him on Thanksgiving Day
only waits for the advent of war to bring OUT the
latent demon in his soul-Detroh Free Press.
Somebody has started the rather i'm
probable story that bug is now eating up the an
thracitc coal crop. If that bug would set to work
and eat'up the men who charge $3.50 ton for the
same II would please us better,-ARdretD's Queen.
The bullet that Sergeant Mason fired at
/ is cat IN hav fak nf
the assassns head when 1t lattened against the
wall This shows where the bullet would like to
have gone If It could have had its own way
Brooklyn Union. Argus
Under the will of the late Lord Lacon-
field the present lord Is Obliged to hunt his pack
of fox x-hounds three days n week. Ifthe present
| lord has as much trouble hunting the hounds rs
we had in our youthful days "hunting" couple
of COWS he will almost wish the late lord had not
died-Norristotcn Herald.
From Cape Coast Castle comes the CORY
story that the King of Ashantee has killed 200
young girls for the purpose of using their blood
for mixing mortar for the repairs Of one OF the
state buildings In New York the building in.
spectors follow little different plan. They wait
until building falls to get human blood mixed
with the mortar One is about as justihable rs the
other-NOnistOpn Herald
During last autumn's shooting season
an English gentleman, familiar with gun and rod,
happened to be u guest nj the South Side Club
Long Island, near New York, One fine morning,
while pacing the piazza, he saw approaching an
old negro having In one hand ricGcty flint lock
shotgun, and in the other some twenty odd wood.
cock Accosting the African, the gentleman said,
"My good fellow, that's fine string Of birds you
hayew "Yes, sah, dems good birds and no mis-.
take" "Pray, my good man, did you shoot them
hereabout2' "Yes, sab shot 'em all round here"
"Ah, pom my word, that's very extraordi.
nary Aud did you "-pointng TO the old gun
shoot them with that singular Instrument
eyes, sab, every one of'em." "And may ask II
you shot them on the wingY "De whatT "on
the wngg' "Yes, sahi shoot 'em on de wing
shoot EN- on dc head shoot 'em on do tail-shooI
'em anywherL"