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NOftHau A1 ftOts OA AA doc e e-tt1a ttcs recently run twenty miles in two hours and three minutes.
 Tho county, township, city aud village school list bonded debt Of Illinois foots S5I ,942 ,691
 So great IS the scarcity of money in England. that recently cows were sold ut prices equivalent to 12 cents each and horses at s cents.
 The total endowment of the pub lie schools of the United States is S8, ,0O0 900, and 1t is estimated that the average daily attendance is i i, 5OO,000.
 A supper was recently given in London to about 800 thieves. The giver was the St. Giles Christian Mission, and measures were taken to prevent any detectives from beng present 70 disturb the equanimity Of the occasion.
 A race horse wns injured while being transported over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and 1t cost the company $l2, ,555 to settle iE. If they had only killed a man $5 900 would have been the extreme measure of the damage.
 At a 'possum supper recently held at Paducah, Ky, twelve opossums and bushels of sweet potatoes were served up. 'Kentucky's ia vorite bWd-the 'possum, g and the sweet potato--a native of North Carolina, ; were she tOasts.
 Senator Coke. of Texas, submit ted a resolution insnueting the com mittee on Judiciary to examine into the expedieney of repeating all laws providing for compensation by fees of United States attorneys. and sub stituting fixed salaries therefor. Agreed to.
 A Texan family attended the cir GUS at Sherman the other day. The husband sold load of wood for SI, and the wife a jar of butter for S1 25; then they were 75 cents short, but the father pawned his boots, and barefoot led the way to tue splendors of tae arena.
 Sympathizing bystanders { about man who has been knocked down and stunned by . railway train
 Poor man Take him to che sta ton" Injured one recovered .'Tyek me to sh' station what for. then Ii ou've dune any harm to yo'r engine avs wilIin' to pay for't-' '
 The other discoverer or the princi- pie involved in Miss Hosmer's and Mr. Gary's new motor, is Mr. Daniel Drawbaugh, of Cumberland county, Pa, the inventor of perpetua. clock, which, by utilizing magnetism IS a dynamic force, has been ticking away without winding for four or five years, and Is said to show no to stop before it's parts are worn out by friction.
 A young newspaper reporter penn ] ed paragraph on a snowfall IS fol- lows "The angels rustled lheu wings Ut the hour when Aurora goes forth to fulfil her mission. andth earth was covered with q aeecy nau- tie of white He thought 1t was very nice. but the unimaginative ed tier quietly dropped it into the waste 5asket, wrote in place of It, .'Snos fell this morning and roared out sayagely, ~Condcnse, d-n you, "
 Five years ago there were living iu ] Williamsport, N. r., ten young Ia- dies, beaunful. highly educated, in- tlnate friends, and moving in the i pest of society. And since then l Ah, our pen almost shrinks from tell ! ng the fate of these girls, but we must print 1t as q warning to others. [ Two of them married congressmen, another linked her fate vita that of .n editor. the forth welded . clergy nan, another wrifes poetrg for the Eayerly Magazine, the six married a humorous paragarpher and looks as iad as an orphan asylum, and the .ernaining four joined croquet club ind eyerlastingly ruined their sweet empers thereby.
 4 remarkable case of defective ,ision is that of the three children of James Howard. 3 seafaring man. whose family live on 0cracoke island, ,fF the coast of North Carolina They become totally blind each day immediately after the sun goes down. F by chance they happen to be in .he yard playing when the sun sets , 3lythngs are Instantly laid aside lad efforts made 10 reach the house,
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