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TIMELY TOPICS.
Seventy Thousand women live in cana
boats in England and Wales.

TIMELY TOPICS.
Seventy Thousand wonen live in cana
boats in England and Wales.
1aura Hartley of st. Louis died in.
convulsions OH learning that her lover
was q counterfeiter.
Mrs. Maggie Fitzgerald, ayoung bride
of three days, fell FIVE stories from the
roof of a New York tenement house and
was dashed to pieces.
New York city Las q club called the
"Full-bearded Company" consisting of
forty members with boards ranging in
length from two feet to four feet Six
inches.
During a hailstorm at Pakraez, Sla-
yonis, which lasted four hours, n
person was killed, twenty-three we're
fatally and $50 slightly injured. Above
400 head Of cattle we're killed. The
harvest was destroyed, the fruit trees
were broken, and even large oak and fr
trees were uprooted. Among the hail
stones weighed by the authorities were
some of six kilogrammes apiece, say l33
pounds.
California has a Portuguese popula.
ton of IL, 600, industrious, peaceable,
hardly ever in the courts, civil or crlmi-
nal, and the most temperate class in the
State. They earn their livelihood by
agriculture, stock raising, dairying, gar
dening, mining, and whaling. There
are pine whaling companies on the coast
of California, composed entirely OF Por-
tuguese. The average annual yield OF
their labor is 128, 600 gallons of oil.
A great invasion of kangaroos recently
occurred in various settled parts Of Aus
tralis, especially Queensland, the ami
mails being, no doubt, driven from the
interior by the drought and it's effect in
search of food. They came in thousands,
everything in the shape Of
herbs or grain, so that the sheep and
cattle were often reduced to dry leaves
for fodder. The colonists promptly
met the attack, in some cases driving
the kangaroos into an enclosure and
shooting them. In the battle more than
1000 kangaroos were killed in four
days.
The Pungob of Milan, July IL, re-
ports chat at the town of Monzambano o.
detachment OF carbineers entered q
house owned by wealthy people and
ordered q certain door to be opened. "A
horrible spectacle presented itself. In
q room with windows secured by iron
bars they beheld, amid uncleauliness' OF
every sort, o living woman deprived OF
speech and bearing hardly any semblance
Of a human being. This unfortunate
woman had been imprisoned in that
room for forty-two years. This mons
trous cruelty was inflicted in order to
prevent a marriage which would have
taken from the family a large share OF
it's patrimony.
Recent eccentricities Of lightning: A
Wheeling, W. Va, it killed a young
man, breaking every large bone in his
body into small particles, but leaving
no external mark of injury further than
a slight scorch on his hair. At Wap-
ping, Conn, it struck the Methodist
church, snatched off a womAn's back
hair, ran down her back, which it
marked slightly, and went out through
her shoes, which was reduced to ashes.
At Wellsburg, W. Va, in stru. kThomas
Briggs and left the perfect imprint of a
tree on his breast. In Woodford county,
two persons owned a peach tree in
partnership, but they couldn't agree
about the division of the fruit, and fell
to disputiug over it. Shortly after the
tree was struck by lightning and split
from top to bottom, one half falling one
way and the other the opposite.
The laundry arrangements Of India
seem to be very peculiar. A small vii
lage not far from Chombatore was at
tackled by cholera. The number of the
inhabitants OF the village was only 100,
and sucl, was the virulence of the attack
that more than fifty of them were seized
with the illness, and within the two
months of February and March q third
died. A supply of medicine was dis
patched to the sufferers under the charge
of q hospital assistant, who on his
arrival at the place found several vii
ayers employed in washing the clothes
of the cholera patients in a large well
from which they derived their supply
of drinking water. This proceeding was
at once stopped, the we'll was closed,
and q supply OF water obtained from an
uncontaminated source, the result being
the speedy abatement of the epidemic.
A Chicago correspondent says: Mr..
Smith, the photographer of Chicago,
has an immense frame filled with photo
graphs of children in the American
department, which always has a throng
of visitors around it. In the centre is a
large 6fteen-inch card of laughing
babies, frowning babies, crying babies
and serious babies, in all manner of att.
tudes, having inscribed under it. In
French and English, eve come all the
way from Chicago" Around this are
arranged about 100 cards, each with a
smiling cherub on it, max ag a combi-
nation such as is seldom e g from one
establishment. They are undoubtedly
a fine specimen of Chicago's productic
in this line. Everybody has heard .e'
Chicago in Europe, on account OF the
great fire and it's rapid rebuilding, and
mothers and daughters scan the faces OF
those little ones with peculiar interest.
It is regarded as a regular baby show,
and a much p~rettier collection than can
usually be found at those humbugs.
Changes Made by the Berlin Treaty.
The territorial changes effected by the
of Berlin are Of a most compre-
hensive nature. By the treaty of San
Stefano Turkey was called upon to sur
78, $50 square miles, with 1885,
700 Inhabitants. The treaty of Berlin
1pa1s With "a 300 snuare miles and