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A travelling Briton says our summer
girls flirt too much.
The latest Maine church fair wrinkle is
serving ice cream on q pine shingle.
A rose cultivated in Philadelphia hos
house measured IL inches in width.
A tramp returned to Moberly, No., the
other day after nearly years absence 10
work out an unexpired term on the rock
pile.
Hannibal Hamlin's grandfather had IL
sons, the eldest Of whom were named re-
spectively Europe, Asia, Africa, and
America.
A Sonoma county (Cal.) vineyardist
purchased 10000 paper bags TO cover the
young vines and protect them from the
grasshoppers.
A man applied for naturalization at
Merced, Cal, the other day who, after 80
years residence in this country, could
not answer a word of English.
Near New Albany, Ind, passenger
train struck a horse, and tramp who
was stealing ride on the cowcatcher
was hit by the body of the animal and
fatally hurt.
Generosity is a natural trait of tho
Chilians, and the American tramps who
drift into Santiago are reputed to make
from $40 to SEQ day by begging at tho
doors of the wealthy
There is a boy in Csntreville, Iowa.
whose hair always curls day or two be-
fore the arrival of storm. When his
barometric locks begin to kink the people
IN the neighborhood prepare for rain.
Investigation of the working Of tho
Kansas liquor law shows that resident
of Topeka had cold one day and fever
the next for a year without break, and
that his medicine was invariably whisky
or beer.
A st. Louis man was recently arrested
and sentenced to serve three months in
Jail for entering burning building and
saving 6 year old child. He was
charged with obstrncting the firemen in
the discharge of their duties.
A Maine farmer recently sent 10 cent
stamp to man who advertised 20 send
for that amount the way to run a farm
without being bothered with potato bugs.
The answer received was as follows
"Plant fruit trees instead OF potatoes.
The Japanese language is said to con.
tain 10000 words, every one of which
requires different symbol. 1t il quite
Impossible for one man to learn the en-
tire language, and well educated Jap
anese is familiar with only about 10000
words.
Addressing camp meeting at Decatur,
ILL.,, Bishop Turner said that any man
who thought he was near the close of his
life at go or 70 ought to be ashamed of
himself, and that those who obeyed nat
ure's laws ought to live to the age of 100
years.
The Oldtown Indians in Maine have q
law that forbids palefaces to be ON their
island later than certain hour In the
evening. A white man who remained
until past the hour recently took swim
in his clothes to the mainland rather than
fall into the clutches of the red constable.
The recent discussion on tobacco.and
alcohol, following Tolstoi's merciIess
screed against their use, has revealed a
man who smoked for 20 years without
interruption, consuming between 5000
and 1900 pounds of tobacco, and yet re-
tanning perfect physical and mental
health.
John w. Bookwalter, who owns &C, 900
acres of land in Nebraska, proposes to in
itiate great reform in farm life, at an
expense of $4,000 or 800, 900, to be met
out OF his own purse. His idea is to over
come the farmers discomfort. which he
believes to be due mainly TO social isola-
ton, by bringing the homes together intr
a tastefully arranged village.