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Legislature VIII SellIe lis llQuOI
bills.
The count OF votes in the house
on the silver question may we'll be
postpondod until after the debate
is finished.
The Central American mission
is the buiscst in the United States
diplomatic service. Twenty clerks
are employed.
The man who always speaks
what is upper-most in his mind
should remember that the froth is
always at the top.
The German emperor has open
cd the Prussian diet with speech.
American readers wonder why he
did not open it with PIE.
The action of the Iowa. state
temperance convention in declding
to support woman suffrage bids
fair to cause a split in the party.
Tho real estate owners in New
York city are inserting in their
tenants leases a proviso tnat the
rent shall hereafter be paid in gold
com.
Happy is the father whose chill
dren are so young that he can de-
Jude them into the belief that the
procession is all there is of the cir
Gus.
"What do you think of my new
bonnet?" said Mr.. Splcer. "Too
much poke for a shilling" said
Seth; but he will change his mind
when the bill comes in.
Scion Chase's advice is "Stay
East, young man." so between him
and Horace Greeley the young man
will be likely to locate somewhere
IN the vicinity of Ohio.
A scientific journal IN England
estimates that 1t would take q CAPT
tai of 81, 1000, 100000 to successfully
divert the vast power of Niagara
Falls to useful purposes.
The eel fisheries on the Shannon
are very extensive, the cells being
fatted in immense tanks. As many
US 10000 have been taken for the
market in single night.
Blame is devoting himself to
literature, but his house at Augusta
has direct telephone, communica-
ton with the Republican state COM
mlttee headquarters.
Some people don't understand
why comets should have enveI-
opes. They must consider that
comets have TO correspond with
the laws of the solar system.
A French writer says women are
we'll aware that moonlight Injuries
the complexion and fades silks and
woolens more than the sunlight.
Never stroll in the moonlight.
There are but 5000 Americans in
Paris, but it is said they spend
more money among the shop keep
ers and salons than the $4,000 Ger
mans and 5000 Italians combined.
! MISS Cynthia Cleveland has
moved from Dakota to practice
! law In Washington. She ought to
have been told before that Grover
isn't taking on any poor relations
this winter.
| A New England editor declares
that the woman who knows how
to cook q beefsteak and boil a
potato is more to be admired than
the best "angeP that ever tapped
a wing.
| The New York supreme court
did not allow Theodore Thomas
expelled from the Musical Mutual
Protection union because he en-
! ployed a musician who did not be-
long to that union.
| Senators Sanford and Evarts are
fond OF leaning on their fences and
seeing the fat cattle feed. They
should visit q Texas ranch and
lean on the barbed menace to civ
ilization IN q blizzard,
! 1t is said that the consular salar-
les are so small IN the Central and
South American states that only
rich men can accept them, and the
tropical diseases and strange Lam
guages frlghten the rich men off.
/ Representative Payson of ILL.,
nois is reported as saying that the
ways and means committee will re-
port a resolution, asking the secre-
tary to redeem not less than $780,
100000 with the surplus now IN the
treasury.
Gin Fun, San Francisco laun-
dryman, has Joined the Anti-CooIie
league, and posted over the door
| of his washee house the sign, "Thc
Chinese must go. None but Nell
can man employed here"
1t is claimed by the Boston Jour
nal that Mr.. Blaine's present views
on SILVER money are still in har-
mony with his past views.
> When IN the senate Mr. Blaine was
, in favor Of 425-grain dollar with
unlimited coinage.
The London Times finds several
things TO criticise III Miss Cleve
5 lands book, and adds: "But this
is nothing compared with a sen
tence Of twenty-five lines on page
las, which is calculated to give Il
Y the reader pause"
A resolution has been irtroduc
g ed in the Connecticut Legislature
authorizing the governor to ap
point a commission to inquire int
the practices under winch pauper
have been shamefully ahns;lca I'm
3 der the c4nt@:c, system.
Society at the capital says tina
Miss Cleveland means well an
!. learns fast; that Mrs. Endicot
knows how to do the right thing
I that Mrs. Manning is rather ctfu!
awe first acquaintance; that Mrs
1 Whitney's diamonds are too large
te Careless nurses have let childre
n fall and lnIure them for life. The
haua alan uiyrn Ihnm doses of rOnr