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etary rjghts to Pennsylyania.
THE New England apple crop is inn
mensefy heavy this year, and trees viii
suffer from breaking branches. Mer-
chants are buying heavily of green ap-
Piles at ST q barrel for shipment.
I--ERAEK BUGKLANB, the English mai
uralist, tells of finding trout lying dead
on its back with dace fixed tight in one
of its 'gills.l The big fish hadtried to
swallow the little one, and both had
Hperished in the attempt:
THE Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children in New York is do
ing good work. During the last three
months it has investigated nearly 800
cases, and sent over 100 children to in
stitutions or homes. bui- Il.b -mrnI +
pq LARGE fires are raging in the Alps
All that part of the mountains called
the Esterel Alps is covered with dry fir
brushwood and other infiammable veg
citation, which is burning. Formerly
this part of the mountains was covered
with ar oak forest, but it was all de-
stroyed by FIRE in 1888. a' 20 % 70
THERE is great poverty among the
former owners of emancipated serfs in
Russia In the Transcaulasi2n Govern
ment of Lutais the last census gives los
mobiles TO every 1000 other persons of
the population, or in all $4,000 mem
bers of the nobility, of when $4,000
are without means of support.
IS Iris said that when the lecusts swarm
ed in Central China last summer the
mandarins offered prayers in the tenn
pies; and the peasants in their igno-
rance thought them a blessing in dis
guise, and, gathering them Ia mama,
fried and. ate them, no doubt thinking
them an Improvement on their. old diet
of rats and mice.
A MISSIONARY from the English Good
Templars, Rev HI. w. Parsons, viii sail
for the Southern States Shortly, with
the object Of organizing Good Templar
lodges among the colored people, who
were formerly excluded from the order
by the white Good Templars on account
of color, 80. ~ III
ro o. E. MosER, young New Yorker of
10, was so charmed by the appearance
of a lady whom he met at his fathers
residence for the first time on Friday,
that he became temporarily insane from
love, and behaved with so much vio-
lence that he had to be sent to the
lunatic asylum on Saturday. 40
BICYCLE accidents are becoming fire.
quent in England. A few days ago a
lad, while riding down an incline, was
thrown over the front of his machine.
On rising to his feet, he remarked to a
companion; "That's a funny topple,
isn't it? can't draw my BREATH" He
then lay down and died within Is min
utes. 81. ..I r-tvza-. a.H aFri " Oh
JAPAN indicates her progress ia the
march of civilization by adding new
railroad, so miles in length, just opened
between Osaba and Kioto, making some
20 miles now in operation. With her
area of 100000 square miles, and her
population of over 33,OOO.OOO, she will
undoubtedly, in q few years, have a
great system of railroads, and show
corresponding advancement, increase
and prosperity. H.. ...,yzT
IT has been believed for generations
that one Capt. Mason and the 60 La
COMA Company were the earliest set
tiers in New Hampshire. A document
found not long ago among the Winthrop
papers shows that David Thompson
Cfor whom Thompson's Island, in Bos-
ton harbor, was named) made a per-
manent settlement at the mouth of the
Piseataqua River at least six years be- !
fore the organization of the Laconia
Company. a., .f... .,.lf- I'D =. LA
Too fast speed is complained of in
England, and proposals have been made
to limit by law the speed of express
trains, some putting the limit at 40
miles an hour. The occasion is re-
cent accident to the train known as the
"tFlying Dutchman," on the Great
Western Railway. The Directors of
that Line have announced that hereafter
the speed of that train shall be reduced
to 40 miles an hour on ''the more dan
gerous parts. of the line -.,,,ty, ne Il
In the London Divorce Court, lately,
a woman prayed for dissolution of her |
marriage on the ground that she was
insane at the time it took place. She
was then so Frustrated with grief at the
loss of her husband as to lose her |
and a man in much humber
station of life than herself persuaded |
her to marry him She had since been
in an asylum, but was now sane, The
evidence being perfectly satisfactory,
the marriage was dissolved. -. NJ !
Miss SNEED writes TO the Louisville
Courter-Journdl: al saw one man at
Saratoga who disapproved of 'odious
and his protest took the
iorm actually, oh, yes, indeed it did, OF
> hustle. He wore one in the bottom
IF his pantaloons. These same unmen-
ionables were cut very large and long
1t the bottom, demi-train, L think,
md, to hold out the -fullness over the
nstep, and alse, i suppose, to increase
he height of said instep, hustle was
yorn in the pantaloons, just below the ;
mike. felt sure it was hustle, be-
ause saw it bob up and down and
rriggle, for all the world like the senu-
ne article With this new style, sky
'lde silk stockings and low shoes were
Torn."
= HERE is the sortl of husband San
francisco girl adyertises for in the
KrOnicle of that city ia man with