MISCELLANEOUS.
Of all the stations in life one of the least desirable is the police station. 'J he scientific conundrum of the day is, What did Io die of ? lodide of potass-, ium. Mean spirits, under disappointment, like small beer in a thunder-storm, always turn sour. The ' St. Louis Journal' says that •" the Bishop of Atlanta is one of the nicest, smoothest, squarest old fellows in the business." , There is said to be a man in New York so thin that he can keep cool at any time by standing in the shade of a lumppost. Rather Dear. —The price of a girl is quoted at two cows in the slave districts of Hast Africa, according to Sir Samuel Baker. " John," said a father to his wayward son, " you shoull always be up with the birds " " That's so, father, and the birds I prefer to be up with are the nighthawks" A poet says his ancestors have been in fche habit of living a hundred years. His Opponent responds by saying that " that was before the introduction of capital punishment."
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 266, 10 April 1874, Page 4
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180MISCELLANEOUS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 266, 10 April 1874, Page 4
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