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and he fell to the floor. The knife pierced
his heart killing him instantly.

his heart, killing him instantly.
The champion buckwheat- cake eater, II. 81.
Bissell, all employe of the New York, Penn
sylvania & Ohio railroad resides in Youngs-
town, o. Last week. on bet of 500 with
Charles Near, miller, he ate sixty three
cakes, none being less than five inches in di
ameter. Near threw up the contest after eat
ing fifty and Bissell secured the money
and championship.
Five shipwrecked seamen were brought
into New York on Friday on the West Indian
steamer Santiago. They were Capt. Merritt
and the crew Of the schooner David W. Hunt,
which was abandoned in a water-lodged con-
dition off Cape Hatteras while on her way to
New York from Cedar Keys. For five days
the men lived on half glass Of water and
half biscuit day
Plymouth church, in Brooklyn, in calling
DR.. Lyman Abbott as the successor OF the
late Henry Ward Beecher, has decided to dis
pense with the formality of an installation
by council Of Congregational churches.
This departure from the usual custom is not
SO much an indication that Plymouth church
desires to place itself outside of the Congre-
gational pale as that it desires to avoid the
raking up Of old feuds and the revival Of old
antagonisms.
Five tramps who entered the village OF
Burlington, Wis, on Christmas day begged
money of the citizens and purchased tools
generally used by burglars. The residents
became suspicious, and the village officers
and merchants procured guns and watched
at night for the supposed criminals. Not
withstaudlng the precaution taken, the ell
lows blew open two safes, securing $3.50 in
notes and $500 in money. They also entered
five residences in the heart of the village,
and, although the notes were found in rail-
road yard, the thieves escaped.
Several young ladies of Mount Vernon, o.,
among them few Normal college graduates
who have no taste for school teaching, re-
Gently concluded to organize debating So
ciety for mental training, as well as for Win
ter evening pastime, and appointed an even
ing to debate the question: lis Life Worth
Living Without a Beau?" AS none Of the
girls could be persuaded to take the affirma-
tive the debate was deferred, and twas agreed
to extend the limit of age of unmarried
women to forty years. The question for de-
bate will be taken up when few more mem
bers are added.
A niece Of Senator William Stewart, Of
Washington, Miss Letitia Aldrich, is one OF
the last society favorites to enter stage life.
She left for the West last week with Palmer's
Jim the Penman" company. She is de-
scribed as persevering and talented girl.
with dark eyes of wonderful brilliancy. She
has strong likeness to Senator Stewards
daughter, Mrs. Bessie Hooker. who is consid-
cred one of the beauties Of the American
colony in Paris. Miss Aldrich appeared in
Washington last spring as Galatea in char
ity performance, Of which Mrs George Hearst
Mrs. Leland Stanford and Mrs. Whitney were
patronesses.
At the birthday celebration Of Prince Re-
gent Luitpoid. Of Bavaria DR.. Won Dollin-
ger delivered an interesting Grafton on the
part of North America in literature. he
thought that the main hindrances to literary
and scientific progress in America were due
to the want of great central university and
to the siipshod character Of the American
press. In addition to these, he said, the
negro and immigration questions are posi-
BILE source of some great dangers. Never
theless, the intellectual primacy would be
certain some day to fall to the Anglo-Saxon
race, as it anciently fell to the Greeks and
Romans. The Germans would also have
share, but indirectly, through the medium Of
the English language.
Twenty years ago Ezekiel Fogg, OF Oxford,
Me-, went to seek his fortune in the far West.
He drifted from place to place and gradually
forgot to send home letters to his family.
They searched for him and at last came to
the conclusion that he had been murdered on
the plains. A tombstone was erected to his
memory in the little village graveyard and in
time his existence became forgotten. On
Christmas day an old man with gray hair
and beard, bowed down with years and fee
BILE, was seen cropping his way slowly, like
one partially blind, among the graves in the
old churchyard. In spite of his wears his
frame showed great strength and power Of
endurance. 1t was Ezekiel Fogg, and as he
stopped before an old stone crumbling with
the frost Of many winters he had the I'M
usual experience of witnessing his own name
engraved thereon.