—lt is a sign of ill-breeding in China
to mention the weather, unless as a
matter of business. When a Chinaman
is introduced to a stranger and wants to
say something, he asks him if he doesn’t
prefer spotted hogs to plain white,—
Boston Transcript.
—A Leavenworth (Kan.) womsn,
nearly blind, cooked same gunpowder in
a quantity of oat meal. The whole
family died except a boy, and he is so
full of the compound that his aunt won't
let him go near the fire for fear he’ll go
otL
—A mad butcher was he of Provi
dence when a delinquent and spiteful
customer, who owed a bill of sixty-two
dollars, paid iu full in pennies. The coin
half filled a water bucket, and weighed
forty-seven pounds.— Providence, (ft. I.)
Journal.
—The outside of a woman’s bonnet
and the inside of a man’s hat are the
richest in ornamentation. Perhaps the
same may be truly said of the outside
and inside of the heads of the two
sexes respectively—and perhaps not.—
Exchange.
—la the Union Workhouse at Ux
bridge, England, are two veritable cen
tenarians, both women. Mrs. Ann
Franklin was 100 years old on Novem
ber 1; Mrs. Ann Wood was 102 years old
last March. The former has lost all of
her faculties which were worth preserv
ing, but the mental and physical vitality
of the latter is astonishing. She is,
moreover, an inveterate smoker, and the
authorities make no effort to control her
indulgence of that habit
—The great grave at Vienna in which
were buried the remains of the 400 vic
tims of the Ring Theater fire was visited
on All Saint's day and the day following
by several hundred thousand persons.
