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Ir is proved that Gonzales, who shot
at King Alphonso, is mere drunkard,
without political animus.
THE value of live stock received at
the Union Stock-yards in Chicago, for
1879, was STA, 795, SSA, an increase OF
more than $500, 600 oyer 1873.
A SICK woman at Westford, Wis, be-
ieved she was bewitched by an old bag
who lived near by, and number OF
superstitious women were of the same
mind. They took the supposed witch
10 the invalid's house, read the Bible to
her, and pounded her cruelty, one of
them using club They are to be tried
for their assault.
TRAIT charcoal is one of the best
known remedies for the disordered state
into which hogs drift, usually having
disordered bowels, all the time giving
off the worst kinds of evacuation. Prob
ably the best form in which charcoal
can be given is in the form of burnt
corn-perhaps, because when given in
other forms the hogs do not get enough.
WILLIE JOHNSON of Fairgrove Town
ship, Tuscola County, Mich, put seven
inches of powder, shot, and wadding
into gun, intending to blow certain
dog off this planet; but not finding the
dog the losa was not drawn. A few
days later his brother Walter went hunt
ing with it, and the explosion which en-
sued killed him.
THE Princess Amazula, the Zulu lady
who is at present visiting London, is
bright and volatile person about "a
years old. She is graceful, but not
beautiful, has a fine flow of language
and quick sense of humor, sings well
and loves to dance. She is accompanied
by suite of two Zulu ladies and four
male attendants.
A WHIP with lash six feet long and
an inch thick is used TO drive hogs in
Chicago slaughter-houses. An expert
enced man can take out a piece of a
hogs tough hide every stroke. Another
instrument of torture is plant strip of
wood with a heavy knob at the end,
with which the brutes' shouts are
whaekeG. Awagon follows every drove
to pick up the disabled hogs.
THIS is the way they catch sea gulls
in Maine First catch small fish, then
punch hole through its tail, put stick
through, and leave it on the beach.
The sea gull comes along and tries to
swallow the fish head first. 1t swallows
him up TO the cross stick, and then can
neither complete the job nor disgorge.
So the bird strangles and falls over.
The captor relieves it and takes it home
alive.
THERE are 95 lakes in Iowa, estimat-
ed to cover about 1000 acres of land.
If these lakes should dry up, the land,
as the law now stands, would vest in the
Government, and there is now a move
ment on foot TO try and induce Congress
to pass law to have the title rest in the
State, instead of the United States.
As some of the States are rapidly be-
coming waterless, the Importance of the
scheme can readily be imagined.
THE Sultan has 10 servants whose
special duty it is to unfold the carpets
for him when he is going to pray; 10 to
take care of his pipes and cigarettes;
two to dress his royal hair; and 20 to
attend to his most noble clean shirts.
There are multitude of ether attend
ants about the palace; indeed, it is
stated taat 800 families and about 1900
persons live at his Majesty's expense.
He is an eXtravagant housekeeper; the
annual expenditures of the palace are
mentioned as nearly S14,000,0O0.
YOUNG PELHAM of Manorville, Wis,
desired to commit suicide. He swal-
lowed poison in the presence of young
woman, in her own parlor; but she said
that scandal would be the result if he
died there, and he obligingly took the
antidOte that she got for him. Soon af-
ward he drank poison in whisky at
bar; but the proprietor complained that
a suicide in the place might lead to a
revocation of the license. So Pelham
submitted to the use of a stomach
pump. His next and effectual effort
was to hang himself.
4 YOUNG Chinese widow publicly an
nounced that she would hang herself
rather than yield to the wishes of her
parents and marry again, and the sac
rifice was actually consummated in
broad daylight. A crowd of the woman's
friends and admirers assembled, and
the tragic ceremony was performed by
reception of visitors on a platform erect
cd for the occasion. After receiving the
mingled applause and coincidence of her
friends, the young creature mounted a
chair, placed the rope around her neck
and swung herself off in the presence of
the gathering.
IT is an error to suppose that Chinese
of The weather. classes make their meals
off the almost illimitable number of
strange dishes which we read of in
books of travel. These dishes exist and
appear at official banquets, which,
however, do not give a more correct
idea of Chinese cooking than public
dinner in London or Paris would of the
achievements which a good chef here
could ACCOMPLISH for a small party of
sou1nlets. The big dinners of the kind
described are generally given at restau-
rants in China, which, contrary to the
general custom, have two, and even
three stories, the public room being on
the ground floor, and private rooms
above, as with us.
THE Choctaw cow is polled and of
good size; has many of the marks of a
good mixer beside that of capacious
udder; is mostly black and white, or
dark brindled, bat may be of nearly all
colors, except the deep red of the Devon,
and the deeper chestnut of the Hereford.
And in spite of the three and half GEN.
turtles of neglect (she is said to have
been introduced into the South, and
given to the Choctaw tribe of Indians in
1545, by De Solo, to-day she offers to
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