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-Ii--- $500
A pleasing change awaits one
by calling at Boyer's old stand
'or your drinks. 4llp
A woman at Lebanon, Pa,
.ged 81 years is insured for
.Sf64 900 on the speculative
plan. - +
The eggs sold in Cincinnati
will this year reach the figures
Of 100000 dozen, or co.
600 eggs.
The trustees of the Univer-
sity Of Tennessee at Knoxville
have finally decided not to
admit negroes as students.
Another aeFonaut has been
lest in France. The balloon
resulted latalIy,and as a method
of polite suicide it is growing IN
favor.
The amazing wonder that fills
angels with Joy is, that mercy
and Justice are harmonized
through the blood of Christ
PendIeton.
IEonors IS the name Of a no.
torious Chicago thief. A CHI
cagoan with property has onlyto
fall asleep to bring Honors
thick uponhim.
Senator Sessions. the boss
briber ofthe New York legisla-
ture, has been renominated
with ! whoop.p Genius tells
in the Empire State.
Roscoe Conkling is a very
frequent visitor Of eastern SUM
mer resorts. The Distinguish
ed ex-senator is probably prac-
ticing for a cadet officer
Do you know why an old
shoe and a stingy man are alike7
Well, we will tell you. The old
shoe is half soEed and the stingy
man is half souled also.
The dust over Mr FiIden's
political grave appears to have
been disturbed, and several per-
sons are ofthe opinion that he
is to be resurrected for 1884.
Cadet Whitaker says he
will fight the case to the bit
ter end. Mr.. Whittaker seems
to have been attending to the
bitter end of the case all along.
A Brooklyn man suffering
from rheumatism was advised
BY his physicians TO try the
waters of some hot spring.
Whats the usel he returned.
i've been in hot water ever
since Twas married"
An agricultural paper says
that small pieces OF sponge
soaked in creosote keepsaway
black ants. Wed like to hnd
out something to keep away
white aunts and uncles-about
state fair time.
Al woman may be stung by
curiosity, struck by an idea,
knocked down by an argument
or smothered with delight, yet
she never suffers the agony that
she experiences when a rivals
new silk dress has a longer trail
than her own.
1t seems the Gov. Hamilton,
Of Maryland is turning out
badly. He is accused by the
Baltimore Gazette, formerly his
personal organ, Of assisting at
the gemmiparous, fissiparous
and very eqnivocal generation
Of 100 factions of the demo-
cratic party"
Little Lucy fell and hurt her
knee badIy. which her mother.
when she vent to bed in the
dark, tried to bandsge. Soon
the little one was heard cali
ing Mamma. saidg1she,
"this bandage is not in the
right place. ] fell higher up.
Side splitter by Murat Hal
stead.
From the extraordinary IN
crease OF revenue from cigar
cites the Washington Republic
properly irfers that the number
Of youths who should be taken
across their mothers knees and
soundly spanked has increased
during the last fiscal year at
leasta quarter ola million.
Georgia IS not to have a pro-
hibition campaign after all. The
bill to submit the question to
the people was defeated in the
senate by vote of 20 to 10,
and reconsideration failed. The
house viii probably let the bill
die on the calender, and thus
avoid committing members.
An effort is to be made in
Indiana, through the agency of
a state association formed for
that purpose. to put a stop TO
the wholesale destruction Of fish
by the use of dynamite cartrid-
ges and other explosives. There
IS a law against wantcn waste
OF this kind
The ninth annual Woman's
congress will be held at Buffalo
October 10, 20 and II. The
7object Of this body IS not so
much to secure female suffrage
as 80 develop broader views"
among women-get them to
devise ways and means for wo-
mans Improvement and better
employment.
The New York papers are
coming to the conclusion that
the real Leo Hartmann has
never been in New York. The
individual sporting that name.