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persons in Maryland who can
neither read nor write.
Krupp, the German gun-nak-
er, has engaged 5000 more
workmen. The whole force
now exceeds 1900 men.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes
is said to have received So a line
from the Boston Globe for his
poem on Gar6eld's death.
1t was Longfellow who slyly
described the lady as wearing
flowers ION the congregation
side Of her bonnet" Spring
field Republican.
Massey is now on the stump
in Virginia, and continues his
denunciations of Malone, Rid
dleberger & Co. His latest
oratorical effort was in Front
Royal.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins has pre-
sented to the University Of Cali
fornia Emmanuel Lentze's his
torical picture. washington
at Monmouth" The painting
is insured for $4,000.
It is said that the Australian
colonies are the richest, per
capita, in the world. Among
their possessions are So, 900
sheep, to a population of only
100000 souls.
The London Daily News,
contrasting Emerson and Car
lyle, says of the former that the
man was greater than his writ
ten works, and of the latter that
his written works were greater
than the man.
If the heather leper comes in
such numbers that we cannot
withstand his pressure, then the
question will arise as to whether
we Californians or the Chinese
are to go. We think we know
which will be to let-Chinatown
or our homes.-Alta California.
The Cambridge police arrest
ed a man, who, they said, kept
a cockpit and thoughened birds
for the ring; but he produced
evidence which clearly proved
that he was only raising chick
ems for Cambridge boarding
house keepers. He will die in
affluence.-Havard Lampoon.
Gen. George A. Sheridan,
who failed in his application for
the consul generalship at Mon
treal, has, it is said, been ten
dered the choice of three other
positions in the dansular SER
vice, but is undecided whether
he will accept either of them, as
none of them are so desirable
as the one at Montreal, which
he expected would be given to
him.
To a San Francisco gentleman
who is collecting autographs for
the benefit of the proposed I'm
ion Veterans Home in that city
Jefferson Davis wrote: "You
were not mistaken in supposing
/ would sympathize with an
effort to provide for veteran SOL
diers, who, having served their
country in its need, have come
to need their country's service"
A disease called anthracosis
is giving much trouble to min
ers. It is caused by the con-
slant inhaling of coal dust. The
fine particles, being rounded do
not for a considerable time
give great inconvenience. Fin
ally, certain portions of the
lungs become so loaded with
the coal dust that they break
down, and the victim dies of
marasmus.
An Omaha man, in danger OF
losing his house by the fore
closure of a mortgage, sold his
wife to her admirer Tor the $500
needed to satisfy the claim.
That was two years ago, at
which time the proceedings
caused considerable comment.
The new couple lived anlicably
together until lately, when the
original husband, having pros
pered during his period Of bach
elorhood, bought back the wo-
man at an advance Of $50.
The Shah of Persia lately I'M
derwent the operation of having
a tooth extracted. Prayers for
his safe passage were offered up
in advance in the mosques, and
he made his will and took an
afectionate farewell of all his
wives. He never would do for
a Philadelphia politician who |
only says three words before |
having several teeth removed |
from his Jaw, and those words |
are: you're a liarl"-Boston |
Post.
A lady who resides at Whit |
by, in England, boasts of a |
famous rose tree, ofthe descrip- |
hon known as the Marechal |
Mel which was planted rs years |
ago and now has an extreme |
growth horizontally of as feetto
the left. and As feet to the right |
Of the parent stem. The aver
ape denth of the tree IS FIVE or