An immense bed of solid sail, k.id
to be five-hundred feet thick, and ex
tending no one knows how far. has
been discovered in the immediate
neighborhood of Berlin, Prussia.
Forty mammoth ten-wheel engines
made expressly tor the U. P. road, are
now at Chicago ready to be sent west.
Four hundred car loads of material
for the road, is also at Chicago, await
ing transportation.
The latest Paris horror is the discov
ery, from day to ‘lay, of various por
tions of a human body, nicely done
up in silk, in different parts‘of the
city. The police are putting them to
gether as fast as found, but the whole
man has not yet been recovered.
A thief who stole some silver plate
from a Mr. McKean, of Terre Haute,
Ind., writes him a-letter from Atlan
ta, 111., which he closes as follows:
“Finally, allow me respectfully to
suggest tn you, that in future you will
content yourself with cheap spoons,
and spend your surplus cash in the
cause of humanity and of Christ.”
Ink is called the black slave that
waits upon thought.
Cutting one’s self with scissors may
be called ‘ sheer” carelessness.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm ; swarms
of insects will surround you in the
sunshine.
A clergyman said be addressed his
congregation of ladies and gentlemen
as brethren, because the “brethren”
embrace the ladies.
Rhode Island must be a nice little
State, with few axes to grind. The
Legislature sat only two days this
year.
