Polite Man.--"My dearest uncle," says a humorous writer, "was the most polite man in the world. He was making a voyage on the Danube and the boat sank. My uncle was just on the point of drowning. He g ...

Terrible and bloody riots have the order of the day in New Orleans for some time past. Lives are lost, property destroyed, and still no effort is being made to suppress them. Originally published in t ...

Ravenna, O., Nov 21. -- Big Marie, a museum freak weighing 700 pounds, died here destitute. She was born in Warren county, Ind., and married Rolly Edwards Originally published in The Guernsey Times of ...

A lady, describing an ill-tempered man, says:--"He never smiles but he feels ashamed of it" The woman who never interfered with her husband's affairs arrived in town the other day. She is unmarried. A ...

Father, did you ever have another wife besides mother? "No, my boy; what possesses you to ask such a question?" "Because I saw in the old family Bible where you married Anno Domini, 1855; and that isn ...

At Camp Nevin, Kentucky, an officer's tent was struck by lightning, recently. Lieutenant Wishart and Lieutenant West, of Pennsylvania, had their swords melted by their sides, but escaped serious perso ...

A few weeks ago Mrs. Ann Foley and Mrs. Mary Garry, two elderly ladies West Sixteenth street, New York, had a hostile encounter, in which Mrs. Foley got the thumb of Mrs. Garry between her teeth, and ...

A young man, "strapped," recently went to Galena, and, in order to secure board and lodging, delivered himself as a murderer, saying that he, at such a time, killed a policeman in Boston. The chief of ...