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Mistellantons
HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

INDIA AND THE JIIBILEE.—No abnormal increase 'of
crime has followed on the -release of 23,000 pri.
Boners at the Jubilee celebration last February in
India.
REDSKINS ON THE WAR PATH. —An outbreak of
Indians is reported from Colorado, the Ute tribe
having taken the war path. Troops have accordingly • • -
been ordered to hold themselves in readiness. •
WOMEN DOCTORS.—The number of female physicians -
in New York is something over eight score. The extent .
of their pactico will range from a small sum to
15,0 0 dole. a N ear. Half a dozen of the number enjoys -
Incomes of 10.000 dols. per annum - -
MON,IGNou YERSICO'S MlSSlON.—Dioneagnor Persico .
Papal Envoy to Ireland, who, with his secretary,
Father Gualli, is the guest of Dr. Gillooly at Sligo, was
on Sunday presented with a number of addresses.
Alderman ighe, J.P. presented an address on behalf
of the Roman Catholic members of the corporation.
Addresses were also presented from the Society of St. '
Vincent de Paul, the Literary Society, and other
organisations. Among those invited to meet his
Excellency were Colonel Wood Martin, Sir H. Gore -
Booth, Lord De Freyne, and The O'Oonor Don. Dr.
Gillool) objected to the presentation of Nationalist
s addreses.
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'FOREST FlRES.—Forest fires have been raging along :
the inc of the Green Bay, and Winona and St. 'Paul
Railroad, in Wisconsin. Thousands of dollars' worth
of valuable timber has been destroyed near Meryillon •
Juaction, and at Lynn a saw mill was destroyed. The
fires were checked by rain.
A CHARITABLE WIDOW.—One of the • wealthiest
women in Chicago is Mrs. Muncel Talcott, a childless a
widow of three. score years. W hen her husband was dy ir. g
a few years ago he requested her never to hoard a
dollar. Her income is 50,000 dole, per annum, and of
this sum she devotes 45,000 dols. to local charity.
A TERRIBLE STORM.—A sudden wind storm, coveting
a small area, blew down a building in one of the suburbs -
of Cincinnati, on which 10 men were working. Eight „
of them wele slightly injured, bat. Peter Gaifferer ancl ,
his fifteen-year-old son, who were mixing mortar out.
side, sustained fatal injuries.
FOREIGN PAPER.—Foreign paper. continues to meet - •
with an increasing demand in the United King ion
The imports during July amounted to 123,851 cwtii-
valued at £117,775, as compared with 115,030 cwt„ ..•
valued at £115,058 in the like month of last year. .A. *
proportionate increase is shown by the figures for the
seven months

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A LONG BEARD.—Philip Henson, of Corinth, Mts. 2
BieSipie,,ts-finpposed to possess the longest beard of any
Man in the world. He is 60 years of age, six feet two
haws tall, and when he stands erect his beard unlace ,
te oolitic]. It has not been Cut Juteltiven years, and •
is still
,growing. The extract is, it will be understood,'
copied from an American paper.
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BAXON BATTLEFIELDs.—Eight htm.dred members of
the Warriors' Associations (Kriegerxteine) of the
Kingdom of Saxony have visited the battlefields in tho... • •
neighbourhood of Weiseenberg, and placed wreitthfr on
the large graves containing those who fell there duriog' -47
the Franco-Prussian War. The members of the
Warriors' Associations. during the next few days, pro- ,
ceeded with the same object to the Other battlefieldeln
Aisace•Lorraine. a. ' .
AN ADDITION TO THE NAVY.—Another addititka wsk •
made to the active list of the Royal Navy
.on-Saturd,q,
by the Completion for sea of the imarmoured Ctun.
posite corvette Garnet (14 guns: 2120 tons, 2AP--lictiie,!- •
power) which has been brought forward for ser!icq,o.nkthe 1
East Indies station. Silica her return from the Wtst
Indies, in August last, the has undergone te-most '
sive overhauipnd repair. She has been fitted Witlx,neV.-
boilers, and also had several important alteratl'onsr.
made in her armament which will greatly increase her • '
efficiency as a ship of war. •
iiOP PROSPECTS IN .•SuRREI4:--The hops in the ..
Surrey gardens are very much affected by the contitueo
drought. In the outlying districts or Farnham too • '
black blight has made its aPpearancif. 'This .blighilas,
however, not • ppeared in the home garuens, but here.
there is a great lack of bine. Mould, too, is on the it,t=
crease. Eipetienced hop planters consider that the
Farnham country will yield an 'average of scwt. to -the. '
acre. .
:ANADA AND NEW YORE.—Tile Canadian ste,atn.ers .•

bi&-tlugs and Kathleen have been seized 'by the
American Customs officials at Charlotte, New 'York • '7
State, on the ground that they have not been inspected
by the United States inspectors. The vessels have oiro,
been allowed to return to Toronto after giving the*
quired bond.
THE NEGROES IN AmEnics.--The Ahoieu Order ofr-
Foresters iu session in Ohicago has.. rplied to,. the -
Supreme Court of Foresters AU Eifilitind that -they -
have resolved on no acooltnt to admit negroes to the
Order.
THE POST OFFICE ROBBERY IN VIER24.—Z&ISUSki,
who it will be remembered stole 175,1),U florins from
the Vienna Post Office, and was arrested on the steamer •
before lauding in New York, arrived in Austria on
Monday in custody. S S•
i THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD.—FaIIowing the.pro.ceediug • •• •
of the National' *Eisteddfod of Wales in London last
week, the ceremony of the Gersedd took- place On
Monday at Wrexham, proolaiming the Eisteddfod to-be -
held in that town next year. The yearly
in connection with the ceremony was none

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