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14 PUCK. Spanish and the other half in Josh Billings.— Picayune, Breakfast Yable.—Boston Post. Every day we have new proofs of the back- wardness of the present season. The seventeen- year locusts, which have appeared annually during the past seventeen years, have not come up.—Norristown Herald. ‘Two brothers-in-law near Forest Depot, Va., killed each other ina knife duel, in a quarrel over the height of their corn. It is this sort of spirit that makes this the best agricultural country in the world.— Derrick. Ir provokes a man these days to meet a wo- man on the street looking as cool as the north side of an ice-pitcher, when alk the vitality in his body is running down the back of his neck. —Easton Free Press. Since it has been discovered that the sun is 500,000 miles nearer the earth than has been supposed, the Savannah Mews thinks the time may come when a sun-struck man will be able to strike back again.— Rochester Express. A Spaniarp claims to have invented a gar- ment that is absolutely bullet-proof. It is a lucky thing for the poultry keepers of the South that this garment hasn't yet been introduced among the colored folks there.— Phila, Kronikle- Herald. ‘Tuere is one charming confession in “Gath’s explanation” as to how he interviewed Presi- dent Hayes for the Philadelphia Zimes: “Not | having seen him for some time, I knew I would be well received.”—Rochester Express. sy = = re aff [lshmann Voir | Co! SED YEAST MPIES: RESSED VER! pee mea | x5 G@GENCINE ARTICLE MATHESIUS & FREY, MANUFACTURERS OF CABINET FURNITURE Upholstery, Decorations, &c., at Prices to suit the times. Every Article guaranteed. 91 BLEECKER ST., NEW YORK. | CERMAN LIEDERKRANZ. | CONCERT ano | Summer-Night’s Festival, | AT GILMORE’S GARDEN, Thursday, June 13, 18786, \ In Conjanction with Theo, Thomas’ Orchestra. ADMISSION TICKETS, $1.00, BOXES, $5.00 and $4.00, ‘ay be obtained at box office, Gilmore’s Garden, and from all the members of the Society. Tue Houston Zelegram says there is a paper at Brownsville, Texas, printed one-half in Miss Sweetpretty, of Love street, is grace- fully entertaining her charming cousin, Miss Freckleface of ‘Tantown.--A la Cincinnati APOLLINARI NATURAL Mineral Water, The Queen of Table Waters. HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT. Dr, J. MILNER FOTHERGILL. London. ‘The elicious Beverage, WANKLYS, Highly Effervescent, perio to all others” George’s Hosp., Vholesome, and absolu” pan, OUDEN MUS. ‘Absolutely pure and Nshalciomet tupetior gall for dally user free from all the ob- jections urged against Croton and artificially aerated waters.” pu PETER Y ident of the Hert-, teal Soe! wr to Vichy and Vals. PETen nau IRE, inttothegueen. PHAXMACOPAEIA. and Loss of ition of Contras at i: Good for Sickness, Dyspep Surgeon Sore Wholesome Physician great value Ho: ndon. “Of tine saG diathesier fo eacaerh ofthe bladder, and of the respiratory organs; agreeable and useful. FREDERICK DE BARY & CO., & 43 Warren Street, NEW YORK. Sole Agents for United States and Canadas, FOR SALE BY DEALERS, GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS. Evere genuine bottle bears the Yellow label. NOTICE. No. 26 (issue of September sth, 1877) of * Puck” twill be bought at this office, No. 13 North William Street, at full price. Tuere is a law in England, not enforced, which would compel a man to attend church, It was allowed to die out when the discovery was made that leading a horse to water could not make him drink.— Picayune. ‘Time works its changes. A little more than a year ago the Evansville (Ind.) Courier was con- ducted on a “Tilden or blood” platform, and was edited by a gentleman who had the hydro- phobia and kept a Spitz dog. Now Hayes is booked for a social visit to the town on the’ Fourth of July.—Derrick, A LEDGER kept for several years by George Washington shows his losses and gains at card playing. ‘The book, now in the possession of the Lewis family, will be purchased by the government and kept with the little hatchet.— XN. O. Ficayune. We are informed that ‘the price of dia- monds was never so low as at present, and now isa favorable time to purchase them.” ‘This is welcome news. We shall take our market basket this evening, and go out and purchase our next winter’s stock.— Norristown Herald. ‘Tuere is a “corner” in coarse canvas in Europe, and the price has gone up fifty per cent. Hans Makart, author of the panoramic painting “Catherine Conaro,” has thrown his “soul” and sixty dollars’ worth of paint into a new picture of Brobdingagian dimensions. — Norristown Herald. A Manayunk man went home the other evening and upset the supper table, kicked the dog four times around the room, turned his family out of the house, and broke three chairs into kindling wood. As he is not a drinking man it is suspected that he was out of humor about scmething. He was probably called upon a short time previously to subscribe a few dol- lars towards paying for a brass band serenade to one of his esteemed fellow citizens.—Norris- town Herald, THE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY. HUNYADI JANOS. The Best Natural Aperient. ‘The Lancet. — *Hunyadi Ja nos, = Haron Licbig affirms that its richoess ta aperient salts sure pastes that of ail other known Fitish Medical Jour- **Hunyadi Janos. — The 1d most V nocd these Waters with re |CANZONI, Warzbarg. “I prescribe R. PROFESSO ‘pone but th PROFESSOR LAUDER BRUNTON, M,D., F. + London. “More pleasant than its rivals, and passes them in efficac PROFESSOR AITKE D., F.R.8., Royal Miltary Honpital, 3 jetley. “Preferred to Pallna A Wineglassful a Dose. INDISPENSABLE TO THE ‘TRAVEL! Every genuine bottle bears the name of Tun Aroutinants Co. (limited), London. Fre@’k De Bary & Co., 41 eas EN Street, Ww RK, Sole Agents for the United States and Canada. FOR SALE BY DEALERS, GROCERS, AND DRUGGISTS, ‘The Label on every geauine Bottle is printed on BILUE paper. PORTRAITS, 37 Union Square, New York. ELEVATOR. HATTER. ASK FOR MACH &cCO’S Refrigerators. OTTO LEWIN, Tha Bat WO EAs 294 BOWERY, above DENTAL OFFICE Philippine Diefenbach - Truchsess, 162 West 23rd St., bet. 6th & 7th Aves., N.Y. Late 389 Cana Street. TMK. OIE, Pamphlet & Book Binder, 29 BEEKMAN STREET. ernie binding of every description and Pass books for banks a “y eons attention to everything entrusted to my care. i a eal ECOMICDOOK -CO