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The Denver, Colorado, Times
says the recent census gives
that city a population of over
100000.
Boston paid $4,000 for the
vine, food, and carriages used
by her Common Council in
junketings last year.
The BorsenbIatt gives the to-
ltal number of publications in
Germany for the year 1881 at
I5,IoIe as against I4,o4I in
1850.
Lady Balfour, one ofthe Lord
English visitors, wore $4,000
worth Of diamonds at his recep-
ton at Rideau Hall one even
ing last week.
David A. Wells, the free
trader, is mentioned as a spry,
wiry-looking old gentleman,
with a high, clear voice and
pleasant manner.
San Francisco has had street
car cable roads, such as Chicago
IS now trying, for several years,
and finds them a great improve
ment on horse car roads.
The cotton factories at Column
bus Ga, have a capital of ST.
o6S,ooo, give employment to
1900 hands, and consume ~
$50 bales of cotton annually.
In Palatka, Fla, within the
last three months, vacant lots
have advanced SO per cent, and
improved property at least 50
per cent, on the last years rates.
Beware-In case of a fire at
the Opera-house, the woman
with the beg hat will find it
damned down over her eyes,
and she will never get out alive.
Selah.-Evansville Argus.
Considering the common
habit OF wife beating in Eng
land, the Pal, Mall Gazette won
ders wheather there are not too
many compliments paid to Eng
lish bravery and gallantry.
The Republican says Wash
ington wasn't a Democrat.
Probably they think if he was
living in Virginia to-day he
would be a Malone Republican.
We do not.-Boston Post, Dem.
Sir Leonard TiIIey, the Cana
dian Minister Of Finance, has
estimated the cost of running
the Dominion government next
year at SIS, 900 600, which is
100000 more than last year.
The Episcopal bishop of
Honolulu preached in New
York last Sunday, and said that
the Hawaiian people number
10000 and are all Christians.
Twenty thousand foreigners
also reside on the Island.
a petrihed alligator is said to
have been found Embedded in
solid rock, twenty feet under
the ground, IN a quarry two
miles from Saratoga Springs.
It is FIVE feet seven inches in
length. and measures two feet
back OF the head, nine inches
diameter.
DR.. A. w. Webster and wife,
who were married in New York
in 1892, have Just celebrated
their golden wedding in Little
Rock, Ark. Mrs. Webster was
the second daughter of the
Hon. John B. Strong, Judge of
the United States Court for
Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
The lamentations of the Bor-
deux wine merchants continue.
They were obliged last year to
import 100000 gallons of
foreign wines, besides 1900
tons of Smyrna and Cyprus
raisins. which furnished about
Z, 100000 gallons more of a fluid
which, duly mixed, they supply
as claret.
A St. Louis firm was about
to fail. The father OF one part
ner, in order to secure $4,000
which he advanced, demanded
an assignment to himself. The
other partner refused to sign
the paper, whereupon the old
man threw him on the floor and
choked him until he promised
compliance.
Second marriages by Hindoo
widows are steadily increasing,
two Of these ceremonies having
been celebrated last month in
Bombay and Calcutta, while a
third viii take place this month |
in Lahore. At the Calcutta
wedding the bride had been
at 7 years old, and be-
came a widow six months later.
The case of the 4-year-old
boy who became an invalid
through inveterate smoking. his
parents having given him all the
tobocco he wanted, is interest
ing the faculty Of the Surgical
in indianapolis. They
have deprived him wholly of the
weed, and hope to cure him of
spinal troubles which his habit
has caused. He had smoked
an average often cigars a day
for a year.
The people of Damascus,
Pennsylvania, think that they
know of a woman up in
New Hampshire whose prayers
for the sick are all answered.
When a Demascus person falls
i'll this miracle worker is written
to and a certain hour is ap-
pointed when she and the pa
tents friends shall pray for re-
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