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confined in the Linn county Jail, escaped
by climbing on the top of the cell next
to the front door. punching hole
through the brick wall and crawling
through it. They struck out for the
woods below town in which they sue
ceeded in hiding before their escape was
discovered and pursuit made. Search
has since been kept up for them. but as
vet no clue to their whereabouts mas
been gained. They made their exi'
through the same weak place N the jan
that has afforded means of escape TOR
several other prisoners in times past. :
Albany Democrat.
~ A California story tells of man
who resolved to give up drinking, and
went to a notary to get him to draw up
an afida 7it TO that effect. whats to
pay? asked the pledge-taker. after the
pledge had been drawn up and deliver
ed to him. ITO pay--to pay?' ex-
claimed the notary. Nothing OF
course" Nothing to ray?" exclaimed
the grateful but very forgetful pledge
ia ker. you're a brick! Lets take a
drink
% The albany Fegister says. "Mr.
Hindman brought in nearly 200 deer
skins, besides furs, such as beaver,
coyote and wild cat. His boy few
days ago, killed three deer at one shot.
| At another lime the same boy iassaed
and secured another deer alive. It's a
splendsd country for game, is Camp
Polk.
w Nevala is Dragging that one of
her county jails has not single occu-
pant. But it is not explained that the
rattletrap old shell would not hold a
man two minutes unless something
about as heavy as an eight-Hoe press
was planted on top of him.
w From the Bulletin we obtain the
following; A short time ago. while the
daughter of Mr.. William Kapus, aged
about two years, was sitting at th e table
in apparent good health, both eye-hslls
burst in the sockets, and as soon as the
aqueous fluid had all run out the brain
commenced protruding through the
openings through which the optic nerve
had passed. Physician after physician
was called in, but they. could neither
divine .he cause or suggest remedy
and the child died in consequence.
u This has been a poor year for
members of the New York Legislature,
the most corrupt of them not having re-
eeived over $500 each for their votes
and Influence during the session.
II Bergh says that the popular
mode of killing mosquitoes By rolling
them between the thumb an3 fore6nger
is barbarous, as it only half bills he in
sects. Tying shot around their necks
and drowning th EN- would be more hu
name.
- The Om1ha Bee got up q first
class sensation last Saturday by sending
its editor up in balloon. If some
newspapers nearer home would put
some of their surplus gas into balloon
it would be vast Improvement on the
prese1t method of dispensing it.
~ One of the crew of the illfated
Schiller was arrested in Hoboken for
being drunk, few days before the yes
sci sailed, and sent to jail for five days
His time expired the day after the
Schiller sailed. aud he escaped the fate
of mos. cf his pauions. This state
ment is made as matter of news, and
not to encourage bibulous persons in
the habit of getting drunk in the hope
of thereby escaping marine disasters.
II Th9re was certain aignity about
the old man whom the venerable DR..
Williams, tutor of a wellknown theo-
logical academy, had among bis congre-
CATION. The docter remarked that his
old friend, as regular as Sunday came,
went to sleep under him in very steady
and system attic way; and he did not OBJ
ject to this till kis friend remarked that
whenever the doctor was absent, and
one of the students preached, the old
man sat bold upright, never missing a
word. DR.. Williams gently remonstra-
ted. Nv ell, Docter," said the old man.
its Just here; when secs you 18th pul
pit, know it's all right, and that the
doctrines II come out just like Scriptur' F,
an turns me round and goes to sleep
easy. But when they lads is agare. !
feels it my duty to keep an eye on on n'em.
for you never know what they young
ems is up to-"
w Colonel Robert NJ. and Stephen
A. Douglas, sons of Stephen A. Douglas
have just been awarded by the Court of
Claims about $4,000 for cotton seized
in Mississippi.
w Another big squid or 'devil fish"
has been cast ashore on Newfoundland,
the longest arms of which measured
twenty-six feet long and sixteen inches
in circumference, and the eight shorter
arms each eight and half feet long.
The beak and one of the suckers have
been preserved. The largest over OBJ
tanned had body fourteen feet long and
arms twenty-slx feet long.
T Mrs. Gibbles has great IDEAS of
her husbands military powers, For
two years." says she, "he was lieuten-
ant in the horse-marines, after which he
was promoted to the captaincy of a
regular squad of saP-heads and minors. :"
CRICHTON'S