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During the past six weeks, sixfyae
i've. persons have dropped dead IN
New York. sl@.
solder lives at Friendship. .Cattarugps
! Co., N.s4. -.Eef& tiif--,1s- 't9Ti % gss
Private theatricals are now ofnight- = q
| Iy occurrence in the palatial avenue
residences in New Ynrk. g 95'8s A'lio
/ The original aboriginal Indian sa9
name OF huntington, Iowa, was Slio- i,sgo.
| kokon.
1t is said that castor oil makes shoe
feather soft and pliable and quite inn
| perylous TO water.
Boston wants to invest 81 ,0oD, 900 in
100 feet wide street that will run > 3
straight for at least hu ldred yards. : e
Cheyenne is fillingup with roughs
anu desperadoes again. The Star ua.t
hints at the revival of the Vigilance
committee as a remedy q @ssisi41Hess s9a
A Londoner got the better of u igar- o -
! r,oter 10y gripping the fellow IS. armaik /
beneath ms chin and carrying him oil
on his back.
a rich man in Connecticut has left
ms daughter half his property inc:tse %
she IS not Roman Catholic on reaehl.. tad
ing the age of -. .f.,... -s. .,..-,, .s.t a.
a COW rung the front door bell oi a, ,.,f
mouse IN Washington the other dav,
ana when the ring was answered fit. il
Questionable Leasf -.---,a \ :. - II
The New York eoopers report thai 81,
their average earnings on piecework
amount to from 81 to 81 per dav; l
ana the entire trade is-fusiy employ foi5. :
ed. -..s - l.saeg-
The Columbus Journal pointeJlys4 ha.
remarks that every cord of wood i.
given To the poor here will be So @A
much fuel saved from use i'm ltl,ssi5za .
other world.n efs ,aar
manufactures in Berkshire eoun- .aa7
", Mass, has offered To give 10 the, 80.
ladies in his town all the cotton cloth
they VIII make mp for the poor OF thstss sa
town during the winter aa} .se4s o3+
\ Massachusetts physiologist ass n.7of
seffs that there are no fine singers -
who use tobacco. 1t is proved in the
disseeting room, he claims, that to- =
hacco'inj jures the voice. -s =. .st1eaaf SOD
runaway couple from New York zaa1s
found a clergyman Oh the train he. 80.
tween New lork and Newark, and
were married by him on Christmas
day, while the train was in motion.
WhfN the Pacific railroad is com
plei'-d, tour round the world, all
the way by raiI and steamer, ;}2 tt,os efl,r
miles, Will take eighty days aud SO,
. ,5H,.
a correspondent of the Iowa
Homestead asserts that cit il an easy -
mat ter to start a Farmers Clut ,nbni sa4sE
forgets 10 add that IL is often hard .
work To Keep one going
Horace Day, of New Haven, Conn, =
the celebrated india-rubberist, after al-
eating nifty pounds of opium, freed a
himself from the habit in six weeks, ~
and has published book on I" The
| Opium Habit" nfza
| Since the repeal of the prohibitory W
dog law OF Wisconsin, dogs have in-s9rs.
creased fourfold. 1t is predicted that
farmers will not dare To return to
sheep raising even when it promises
To he profitable again eFE
Brazilian cotton seed was imported Ia
by an Alabama planter last year, af
an expense of one dollar a seed. 1t
has yielded finely this year and the
planter believes it is destined To SUI
persede other seeds, on account OF its -
being so prolific.
For the year 1860 the Prus5fan Gov
eminent VIM ada co. 400 ...o.. 10 the
| army by cOnscriptiOn. OF these only
| 10, $50 are TO be furnished by other
States than Prussia. When the ma
Wy of confederation has been fully
reorganiZed is will consist of 23. 900 s.-s
sailors.
THE prayer which Socrates taught
his disciple Alcibiades deserves
place in the devotiOns ofevery Chris
tldu 1nat lie SnOutu DeSetCn the f1sf
supreme God to give him what was
good for him, though he should not
! ask it, and to withhold from him 80
what would be hurtfnl, though he 34si
| should he so foolish as to pray for it,,
| An unruly pig may have brought .b
! on the war of 1912. A member of Erf
| the Rhode Island Assembly absent
| ed himself from his seat one day to
/ attend a trial broaght about by the
/ Al daft Of mir A
ator was chosen that day, by one
/ vote, TO represent the State i'm Con
gress. The man who was absent =
would have voted for anti-War SEN
atOr.
/ IN the Island of Goa, near Bonn ref,
/ bay, there is a singular vegetable,
called the sorrowful tree, because ii
! only hourislieS in the night. At 50
sunset no flowers are seen, and yet
after half an hour the tree is full of
them They yield sweet smell but
the sun no sooner begins To smile a1
upon them. than some fall off and
Others close up. The tree continues
10 flower in the night during the
1 whole year.
| A Mr.. Kolzakoff, of Russia retired
colonel, a noble, and wearing sever
al decorations, has lately been tried
| in Moscow for cheating in selling
horse. Trading horses was really
his only means of subsistence -
thoughit WAS carried on secretly
| At last he WAS caught selling to "a
| lady 4 horse with a cracked foot the
defect being carefully concealed ty -
the use of cement He was crim.n- IS
ally prosecuted, and sentenced T., suf- -,
| fer. tile loss of his nobility, rank ,pef,-
sion and decorations, aud t., b.. fined
and imprisoned besides The sem
/ fence WAS ihOC :hi Ia be very seyere.
/ even in Russia.
| A little incident recently occurred
j IN Nashville courtroom which.
I might have astonished an EHyiisb
/ ) Justice, bat whieIr failed tn ,iisi,trh
the esiiiibrinm OF gravity..of West
ern Judge. The defending attorney
in a murder ease,> Major Clare. I'M
der,stood Attorney -Generai of Ten
4 nessee, Mr.. Tuthill, to say that he
had lied. Major Glare thereunon
4 sttnck Mr.. Tnihill in the back of
the if;.ad. a halid-to- hand fight etZ o.
sned, the paftieswere finally sepa- -
rated. TIE Attorney General then