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GENERAL NEWS.

In Paris the hours for calls
are from 5 to 6 p. m.
Farm steam engines are COM
ing into use in Alabama.
Large advertisers predict the
heaviest fall trade known for
years.
A Minneapolis girl cherishes
a string Of I,245 buttons, no
two alike.
Early to bed and early TO
rise is good for the sleeper, but
rough on the flies.
The receipts of the Iowa
state fair at DeS Moines last
week were s3o,7o3.
The Crown Prince Rudolph
OF Austria has issued invitations
for a great bear hunt in Croatia.
France is now building II
ironcIads, England 10. This
will give England 81 and
France s..
The war ships of Chill and
Japan are almost the only ships
generally armed with the most
effective modern ordnance.
A Mormon apostle is said to
be in Mexico endeavoring to
secure religious freedom abso-
lutte and undisputable thereto
annexed.
Gen. Albert Pike delivered
lecture to the Master Masons
of Kentucky, at Louisville, last
Saturday. The grand old man
preserves all his faculties.
"Ah. Bill, good day, Been
away?" YES, but didn't stay.
some future day when Iget more
pay, then l may stay. Day
day."-Conversations Lexikon.
The extraordinary popularity
of the Princess of Wales in
England is due to good looks,
and nature and very pleasing
manners. She is not in the
least an intelligent woman.
The number Of insane persons
in the United States is put down
by experts at 100000 and the
same authorities say that from
ten to twenty per cent. are cur
able by present methods.
Seven negroes were killed on
Tuesday evening by slide in
a cut upon which they were at
work on the Richmond and AL
leghany railroad, six miles from
Lexington. Va. Six OF the ne
groes were convics.
Two members OF the New
Orleans merchants exchange
have made wager of $1,000
that the cotton crop this year
would not amount to 100000.
Both sides put up the money
and deposited it in bank.
St. Petersburg is the most
unhealthy city of which trust
worthy statistics are obtainable.
For three years past the week
Iy death rate has been higher
than in any other city. and re-
Gently in a single week it ex-
ceeded the birth rate by $40.
Capital has difficulty in plac-
ing itself in England. Interest
is low and the old, aristocratic
investment in land, formerly the
goal Of every successful trades
man, is naturally now the lux
ury of those only who have suf-
6cient assured income from
other sources.
While an Idaho GIRL was sit
ting under a tree waiting for
her lover, grizzly bear came
along and approaching from
behind. began TO hug her. But
she thought it was Tom and SO
Just leaned back and enjoyed it
heartily, ard murmured tight
er" and it broke the bear all up,
and he went away and hid in
the forest for three days to get
over his shame.
A prominent Massachusetts
lawyer thinks there is a good
deal of humbug in the popular
idea of long vacations, and
says he can get just as much
good by cutting hay, making
downright actual work of it, as
by going to Saratoga or any
other summer resort. But it
isn't every lawyer who can
swing 4 scythe without sticking
the end into the ground and
plunging headlong over it.
"Yes," whispered the boy to
Mr.. Barnum, Pm ready to pay
for my ticket, but I want the
pr vilege of going in by crawl
ing under the tent. And Mr..
Barnum agreed and ordered the
guards not to interfere with the
lad, and after the boy had per-
formed the feat Mr.. Barnum
went inside and asked his reas-
ons for it, and the lad explained
that he had got over 81 bet
with boys who had tired the
crawl and failed, that he would
succeed in it.
Southern News.