Tragedy And Comedy

So many eonvicts escape f rom the South Carolina . authorities that the state has taken to publishing a cloth bound volume containing desoriptioBS of them. The superstitious peasants of Great Britaiu believo that a white pigeon alightinjj oa a chimney or fl.ying1 against a windovv bctokens a specdy death in the house. The Salem, Mass., pólice arrested a man and woinan a few days ago for intoxication. Examination showed that the former had become drunk frora drinkiny Jamaica ginger, while the latter had indulged too freely in essence of peppermint. At Uniontown,"Pa. , James Fordyce charges McCuilouarh Marker and Samuel Nelson with coafronting1 him with a revolver and com oelling him to hand over a number of letters, written by Miss Mell Magie, who was going to niarry Fordyée, bufc clianged her mind and wanted her letters back. Several nionths ar Rose Piüknowski and her husband opened a boardin;o- house for Hun and Russians at Erie, Pa. The boarders made their landlady their banker. Two moriths afo slie wetít away and took wi;h her $450 to the boarders. She has been caught at Philadelphia. In the islands of the InJian ocan a genus of luminous fungí knowa as pieurotus, furuishes a species which is so abundant and in which the phosphorescence is so that the native women use it for personal adornment in the hair and dress. It is said that the glow wiU continue occasionally for twenty-four hours. A man in Biddeford, Me., who was buying groeeries at the city's expense, made a terrible mistake the other day. Instead of the store account book which he thought he was handing to the cashier to have the entries recorded, he passed out his bank book, showing quite a large doposit to his credit. The grocer promptly notified the overseers of the poor. A Detroit minister ca lied at a house to find no one but the servant g-irl at home, and is he prepared to g-o away he said: "Give Mrs. Blank my best regards and say I will cali to-morrovv." "Very well, sir: will you leave your card?" "Oh. it's of no consejquence." "But it is. sir. ïhere'sone man to whitewash the kitehen j morro w; another to beat carpets; a I third to paper and a fourthtodo some painting-. If yon don't leive your card we may get ail mixed upand take you for the second-hand man whó is com' ing to buy the old rang-e for $4." He ' left it.