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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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- England sinks $000,000 per inonth in the Zulu war. - The man who chasod a sailor said he was making a target. - Tallahassee, Fia., has had the firat case ever knovvn there of sunstroke. - A pig bom in May does not turn into Mahogany any way you mm fix it. - The Albauy Argus says that the same man who finds the wcather too warm for church, sits under the blazing canvas of a circus without a murmur. - Always add a lino or two on the margin of a letter to a lady. You can't imagine how much satisfüction a woinan obtains in turning a letter upside down to read a postscript. - If .Noah had ioiusuku 1110 future ann killed the two mosquitoes who took refuge in the ark, he would have rendered some of the strongest words in the English language unneeessarv. - A Watertown, Vt., woman moistened her handkercliief and rubbed it on one of Barumn's tattooed men's legs. She said it was blued by the operation, and the heroic Greek left the platform, swearing that he did not propoae to stand up for people to "pinchy, pinchy, pinchy all de time." - The widow Maria Lew3 of Oswego county, N. Y., gave five sons, all she had, to the defense of the union in tlie war of the rebellion. They were all killed, and she was left without support, and has ever since been maiutnined by the cornmunity as an object of charity. She has now secured back pensions due for her dead boys to the amount of if 1,300, and is also guaranteed an annuity of $96. - The ruling passion is strong in death, and the following incident illustrates the saying : "Am I going to dier1" said a Kentuckian, famous for horse racing, to the preacher who had come to aduiinÍ8ter churchly consolation to him. " Yes," said the preacher sadly. And the Kentuckian said, between his long-drawn breathings, "Well, when I'm dead and you're dead, and are both angels and have got wings, I'll bet you $10 I can outfly you."

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Old News
Michigan Argus