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Branch landlords will not brook
rivalry.
Out in Colorado, where the
land isn't good for anything but
graveyards, they are adopting
cremation.
Grape-rot prevails in parts o.
Jersey. Bad news for the "gen.
uine imported" champaign
drinkers.
H. G. Armour, a New York
operator, thinks the corn short
age this year will exceed 800.
100000 bushels.
Pennsylvania now holds third
place as a tobacco-growing
state, having advanced from
the twelfth in 1870.
Pope Leo XIII is recognized
by the Italian law as a spiritual
sovereign, and not as a subject
of King Humbert.
Sitting Bull wears goggles
but two schooners loaded with
6re-water are the glasses that
really take his eye.
A wet towel under the head
of human being who doesn'i
take cold easily is a satisfying
summer night luxury.
They enforce the laws SC
strictly in Vermont that the man
who disposed OF a small pond
was arrested for pool selling.
1t is said that Castor county,
N. C., contains more whiskey
distilleries than any other coun.
ty in the United States. S
The Impress ofAustria wears
a train thirty feet long, ano
when she walks upstairs the
disheartened Emperor goes ul
in the elevator.
A Bucks county farmer found
a silver quarter in his horses
foot and he is seriously thinking
of sinking a shaft in the animals
leg and starting a mine.
An aesthetic writer speaks o.
a fair young girl vanishing like
the dew before the morning
sum-" This is shockingly vul-
gar. In plain language it means
that she dried up.
MISS Kellogg found many
female American musical stu
dents in Italy in sorry plight
and shrinking from letting theii
disappointment and dfficultie:
be known at home.
The Turkish Custom House
is to be placed, with a view tc
reform, in the hands of Mr.
Bertain, a German, who has
been employed there, and two
other Germans selected by him
A masquerade ball was one
OF the events of the Spiritua-
list campineeting at Lake
Pleasant, Mass, and it was be-
lieved that a number of the
masked and fancifully ,costum-
ed dancers were naterialized
spirits. WI
The prospectus of the Royal
Forest. Hotel, near Epping
Forrest, London, states that it
has series Of very elegant
private sitting rooms called Re-
Nuisance, Indian, Japanese,
Vatican, Elizabeth, Queen
Anne, Louis Seize, Dutch, and
Esthetic, all fitted up to cor
respond with their titles.
The drought in the SchuylkilI
coal region is severely restrict
ing production. The Philadel-
phia and Reading coal and iron
company is shipping nearly
twice as much coal from Port
Richmond as the amount re-
ceived. No-conclusion has yet
been reached in regard to an
advance in Eastern prices.
The marble quarries of Yer
mont have become enormous
excavations, several being $50
feet deep, and the openings are
only slightly protected, while
rude starways down the side of
the shafts afford the only means
of descent; yet there is hardly
ever an accident, and it is sew
eral years since fatal fall has
taken place.
A scientific exploring expe-
dition, composed of competent
men, is to be put into the field
by the Northern Pacific and the
Oregon Railway and Naviga-
tion company. The duty Of
the expedition will be to exam
inc thoroughly into the mining
and other resources of the ter
ritories of Wyoming. Montana,
Washington and the state of
Oregon.
A carnival of crime is report
ed as prevailing in the north.
Beginning at Chicago the bad
classes infect every city all the
way to the Pacific. In St. Paul
burglaries are SO frequent that
many of the wealthicst men
have applied to be sworn in as
special policemen. and the
probability is that they will
have a carnival of blood as the
sequal to that of roguery.
With an earldom, $4,000 a
year, youth, health, a pleasing
wife, taste for sport, and four
of the choicest homes in the
world, Lord Rosebery, to whom
Mr.. Gladstone owes his seat
for Midlothian, put his nose to
the grindstone in a subordinate
office under that not particular
lY conciliatory chief, Sir Will
liam Harcourt. England may