Year: 1878




When a man wants rare break
fast now he has to sit in the shade
and eat off an iceberg.


Red is used for danger signals on
railroads, and it always means "stop."
On a mans nose it ought to give the
same warning.


Late scientific Investigations have
developed the fact that the rate Of
mortality among the negroes 10 more
than twice % rapid % among the
white race.


Hippophagy is becoming decided
ly popular in Vienna, where two thou
sand and forty horses where slaught-
cred for food during the first five
months of this year.


Parents are never satisfied. In the
bathing season the ambitious infant
is thrashed for taking to water; in
latter life he is held in whitening
scorn for abstaining from it.


A boy will make pretty good time
when he's sent down town for rais-
ins; but give him coal-oil can, and
you'd better put mark on him so
as to identify him when he comes
home.


1t is stated that a lady in England
has made demand on the United
States Government for the swords of
the late General Twigg, captured by
General B. F. Butler at New Orleans.
They are valued at $4,000.


Edison says it is periodical rather
than continuous noise that wears
upon the brain, and adds that if the
roar of the city was to suddenly
cease at high noon, thousand men
would drop from the nervous shock.


Prisoners in the Connecticut State
prison get a reduction in time of two
months from each year of their term
for good behavior. This, to a man
serving life sentence, must amount
to considerable at the end of his
term.


Said Genesee restaurant man one
morning: "When a customer calls
for a five-cent plate of soup and
pockets ten cents worth of tooth
picks, l am sure that Carl Schurz
cannot make it too hot for timber
thieves"


The editor of the Reading (Pa)
Times, now abroad, says the ball on
the spire of the dome of st. Peters
at Rome, five hundred feet from the
pavement, will hold only sixteen per-
sons, but that half Of them are always
sure to be Yankees.


Ifyou were in the jungles and
should meet royal Bengal tiger,
with his eyes glowing fire on you,
what would you doa' inquired one
cockney OF another. ~ don't know
what I should do; but l know if l
was on Bond street I'd call cabw


An old lady passenger was SO
much impressed by the polite atten-
ton she received from a railroad con-
ductor in Connecticut, that she re-
Gently left him two thousand five
hundred dollars by her will. But
will this catch the eye and 60 to the
hearts Of other conductors2


There is said 10 be running wild in
Texas man who was made insane
by the study of the currency ques-
ton. You will find quite num-
Der of men in Congress between
whom and this Texas man about the
only appreciable difference is that
they are not running wild in the
woods.


Popular Science Monthly proves
that death by hanging is painless.
That would be well enough if the
hanging could strike man like
lightning, before he knew it was
coming. II is standing around wait
ing for the thing to come to q focus
that makes it unpleasant. That is,
we suppose so. Ours has been
very quiet and truthful life; we were
never hanged, and in fact haven't
had much exciting experience of any
kind.-Ex.


It has been frequently noticed that
loving married people in time grow
to resemble each other, especially in
the calm intercourse of country life,
but the Louisville Courier Journal
states that the features of dogs and
other pets come to resemble those of
their master or mistress, and that
frequently the face Of the master or
mistress changes and takes the shape
Of the pet; remarking invidiously,
that the pet likeness ''is very strik-