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factories, all running at full capacity.
The Zulu war has cost the Eng
lish government up to this time $780,
| 100000.
Mexico has 5000 miles of sea
coast, 1900 in the Gulf of Mexico and
the Caribbean sea, and 4400 on the
Pacific.
NJ. Labouchre claims to have heard
from Germany that the Emperor Will
liam is suffering from ossifcation of
the brain, and that his memory is en-
tirely gone.
Four Cinnamon have committed su-
icide in as many weeks past. This is
new departure for John to take, and
it looks very much as if he preferred
hell to California under the new con.
stitution. California Adce,tiser.
1t appears that the foolish attempt
at the prescription of the Jews in our
own country, has its counterpart in
Europe, where three of the clubs at
Munich have resolved not to admit
them, and a Jewish Judge has been
| excluded from a club at Mum.
We have always been of the opin-
ion that none other than a cold water
advocate could have written those fa-
miliar lines, "The Old Oaken Buck
et," but it now seems that Samuel
Woodwork, the author, was moved
upon by bar room inspiration. He
probably knew the value of water
from sad experience.
/ know of no better way when we
feel ourselves downright cross than to
forceourselves to speak pleasant words.
To be cross and silent soon resolves it.
self into the sulks, which is by far the
most aggravating of all fault-fndings
and leaves the worst effect upon all
parties concerned.
The New York Herald thinks the
only hope feradicating the fever from
Memphis, is by raising the city to
the ground. The germ of the disease
lies buried in the sloughs and under
ground sewers of the city, and nothing
but fire and evacuation will destroy it.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge Knights of Pythias of Ken
lucky will be.held at Henderson on
the 18th of September. The Tennes-
see Lodges have all been invited.
The Cumberland Lodge of this city
will accept the invitation and attend
to participate in the grand demonstra-
ton CarksuWe Tobacco Leaf.
Hutton, Chairman of the Iowa Re-
publican Campaign Committee, has
failed to account for about $4,000
sent him from Washington last fall, by
the Republican National Committee,
20 put where it would do the most
good. Hutton appears to have put it
in his pocket; at least, the Republican
leaders insinuate that such is the case.
-Pittsburg post.
An old man fell dead in Evansville,
Pa, one Sunday night recently, while
sitting in the parlor where his daugh'
ter and her young man were sparkling
1t may be that the conduct of the
young couple sickened the old man,
causing his death, but it will do nc
harm, and perhaps much gooi, to cut
siis paragraph out and show it to the
old folks who are addicted to sticking
in the parlor OH Sunday evening:
!. when their daughters beau wants tt
tell her a great many secrets and ST
forths.-NorTistoaCn Herald.
NJ. De. Lesseps, in a lecture a
J Amiens, on the Panama Canal, statet
that the subscription would be openet
soon; that in November he should him
self start for the Isthmus, that the frs
sod should be turned on New Year
= day, and that with thirty thousand o.
forty thousand workmen, some of then
Chinese, but fifteen thousand of then
n free negroes from Brazil whom tn
Emperor Pedro would doubtless agre
to send, the work would be completes
in seven or eight years.
The gross earning Of all the rail
roads of the country for last year wer
: s49O, 1O3,961, against s472,9O9,27.
: for the preceding year. The gros
, earnings of the railroads of the Wes
tern States were 5000, ,S52, ,275, agains
c1Q9 001 516 for 1877. net earnings