Tragedy And Comedy

So mnnv ebnvicts escape from the ! tiouth ( ar.-iiiii . authorities ihat the ' State h.ii ikí-.i i o püblishin? a cloth i bouud voiume coataiuing description.-s ! oí them. The superstitious peasants of Great i Britain believe that a white pigeon alighting on a cliiinney or flylnjj against a window betokens a speedy death in the house. The Salem, Mass., pólice arrested a j man and wotnan a few days ago for intoxication. Examination shovved that the former had become drunk from drinkinff Jamaica g-inger, while the latter had iudulged too freely in essence of peppermint. At Uniontown.jPa. , James Fordyce charges McCuUoutrh Marker and Samuel Nelson with confronting him with a revolver aud eomoelling iiim to hand over a number of letters, written by I Miss Mell Magie, who was going to marry Fordyce. but. ehanged her mind and wanted.het' letters back. Several months átr Rose Picknowski and hev husband opeöucl a i ing house for I[un and Russiar.s at EriePa. Th6 boarders mada the ir j landlady their bankei-. Two months ': ag'o she went away and took with her $450 to the boarders. She has been caught at PbUadelphia. Tn the islauds of the In lian ocan a ! genus of lumiiious fungí known as pieurotus, furnishes a species which is so abundant and in which the phosphorescence ís so endu.ring that the native women use ít for personal adornment in the hair and dress. It ' is said that the glovv wül continue occasionally for twenty-four hours. A man in Biddeford, Me., who was buying groceries at the city's expense, j made a terrible mistake the other day. Instead of the store accpunt book ! which lie thought he was handing to ! the cashier to have the entries i corded, he passed out his bank book, showing quite a largo deposit to his credit. The grocer promptly notified j the overseers of Ihe poor. A Detroit minisier called at a house to lind no one but the servant girl at home, and as he prepared to go away he said: "líive Mrs. Blank my best reg-ards and say I will cali ! row." "Vei-y well, sir; will yon leave your card?" "Oh, it's of no eonsequence." "But it is, sir. There's one man coming to whitewash the kitchen to-morrow; another to beat carpets; a third to paper and a fourthtodo some painting. If you don't leive your card we may get all mixed upand take you for the second-haud man who is i ing to buy the oíd range for }l. " He leít it.