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HooP-sKIRTs again next season.
Thee are tired of being attired in pin
bacFs already.
WAGON immigration across the Plains
TO Oregon this season is unusually
large.
IN Great Britain there are $685., OOO, :
600 invested ntlie productions Of alco-
The army-wOrm is making terrible
havoc in the province of New Bruins
wick.
THE present outlook Is favorable for
a larger corn and potato crop than was
ever grown in the United States.
An Iowa farmer has eighty acres of
corn that stands rs feet high, and viii
average 100 bushels to the acre.
TWENTY years ago there entered and
left one of the depots in Jersey City 40
passenger trains a day. Now 10 accom-
modate the increased traffic 500 trains
are necessary.
THERE is one town i'm New England
that claims to be entirely happy and
good. Ii is Eaton, in NeWIlampshire.
There is not a physician, doctor, law
yer, drinking-saloon or pauper IN the
place.
PROF. LOOMS, of Yale College, has
been perfecting the genealogy of his
family; and he has already collected
1900 names of persons all descended
from one man, who emigrated TO this
country 800 years ago.
A NEW arrangement of musical
glasses, thirty-two in number, has been
invented by Portuguese gentleman, on
which very elaborate music can be
PLAYED, and which is said to initiate
closely the human voice. He calls it
the "copophone. "
LUTHER BRYANT, the old New York
coin dealer who was robbed of $40, 900
in gold coin last year, has had an offset
to his bad luck. His aunt, who lived
in Massachusetts, died lately, LEAKING
him farm of 200 acres and $1,000 be-
sides. E ~ Il FL s
MADAME IMAGINATION is proving very
successful in collecting subscriptions for
the sufferers by the French foundations.
She has received already about 81 800, :
600. The Viceroy of Egypt sent 50, )
600, and Prince Henry, brother of the
King of Holland, $500.
A FARMER, whose cows stepped over
the bounds,of his brush fence and wan
dered of, sought to keep them home
by placing over each of their eyes q
handful of damp plastero of Paris (Which,
when hardened, rendered them blind.
They were discovered by some parties
fishing, and a complaint was entered
against their inmman owner.
A CRAZY man who threw stones at a
train on the Boston Railroad, has ex-
planned his mOtiHe., tAil the trains, >
he said, 'earry the globes. These
globes are of glass, and inside painted
red; their use is, in the hands of vii
lains, to discover the thoughts of those
who may happen toget within the circle
of their influence -.-.
PENNIES are scarce at the South, and
the Atlanta Herald thinks the fact is sig
nificant of shiftlesS habits. In a cOun-
try where nothing is sold for less than a
nickel there can be little saving of the
pennies. Now, the philosopher says if
we take care of them they will some
time take care of us.
A MEETING was recently held in Lon
don, to take measures for erecting 4
memorial of some kind over the grave
of Byron, the poet, in the church of
HucknakTorchard, where he is buried q.
Mr.. Disraeli presided at the meeting and
Trelawney, author of the memorials
of Byron and Shelley" attended.
TIE Empress Josephine was exceed
ingly fond of perfumes, particularly OF
musk. Although 50 many years have
elapsed since her death, the present
owner of Malmaison can not remove the
scent of musk from the dressing room
occupied by the empress. The walls
have been repeatedly washed and paint
ed, but no treatment is able to remove
the odor of musk from the room.
JOHN GUY VASsAR, nephew of the
founder of Nassar College, is unques-
tiOnably the greatest traveller the world
has ever known. He first crossed the
ocean in the British Queen in 1910, and
has been almost constantly on the 90
during the intervening 35 years, re.
turning home every year or two, only
to remain few months and then take ;
or to some remote quarter of the globe
almost every inhabitable part o
which he has visited once or Oftencr.
A KNOWLEDGE of the works of Chan
Ger is recommended as part of tn,
English education of young men VIII,
desire to become officers of the British
army. This recommendation was dis
cusSed the other night by the House o
Lords, some peers fearing that tn,
study of any poetry tended To soften tn,
mind and make the officer unfit for hi
robust military duties. On the othe
hand, it is said that Alexander tn,
Great was pasSionately fond of poetry
Julius Caesar was not merely fond o
enfeebling his mind by reading poetry
hut was actually himself a poet. Fred
erick the Great was given to reading
and writing bad poetry. Wolfe, as h
crossed the St. Lawrence to take Que
bee, kept reciting Gray's elegy; Mari
borough studied Shakespeare histori
cal plays; and Napoleon saw grea
merit in OSSian. Sir Philip Sidney anC
Sir Walter Raleigh were not bad at DO
etry and soldering, and Theodore Kor
ner scrubbed poem on his saddle jus
before his last gallant charge.