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grand children.
It is better to be an honest rascal
than hypocrite.
A Colorado girl broke her arm
while trying to ride calf bareback.
If you want to win never under
estimate the power of your enemy.
The split in the Texas alliance is
wide as a church door and deep as a
well.
Baltimore packers deny that a
trust has been formed in the canned
tomato industry.
Whiting the past week five per-
sons bitten by mad dogs have visited
a mad stone IN Dallas.
A shortage of crops is reported
from all parts of the world but the
United States of America.
New York labor unions are having
trouble over the question of paving
stones. 1t is rocky subject.
1t is pleasant to learn that the
canned goods business has grown
too large to make trust possible.
The majority of the Mississippi
congressman will support Col. Mills
for the speakship. This is crisp
truth.
Henry Adkins fired his revolver
three times in the Chicago board of
trade room recently just to attract
attention.
New Zealand is shipping butter to
England. If kept at a temperature
not above As degrees it arrived in
excellent condition.
The man who tried to sing hymns
and look into heaven while he stands
on his brothers neck, will get very
hoarse before he does it.
Twenty-three thousand bushels of
apples and pears made the last and
greatest cargo of fruit brought to
London from Tasmania.
The school committee of Boston
by unanimous vote adopted "Black
Beauty" as supplementary reading
in all the Boston grammar schools.
At San Francisco the suit of Geo.
W. Taylor against twenty-four state
senators to recover $4,000 for servi-
ces as lobbyist and agent is being
tried
Prof. Langley is a hopeful man.
He believes that man will soon be
able to fly and that he shall master
the air as he commands the land and
the sea.
A New York fakir has been arrest
ed for sticking tulip blossoms into
perforated Mexican beans and sell
ing them to unsuspecting housewives
as Chinese lilies.
The general grand chapter of
Royal Arch Masons of the United
States of America began its thirty
eighth triennial convocation at Min
neapolis recently.
The legal adviser OF the mikado
of Japan is Henry W. Denison, who
formerly lived in New Hampshire,
but has been a resident of Japan
for twenty-three years.
In the animal market at Ham
burg, in Germany, gratis sell at
$1,000 a pair, chimpanzees go at
$500 piece, and select lots of Su-
matra monkeys at $1,000.
Amherst College claims the honor
of having been the first institution
in the country to make physical ex-
ercise compulsory of the college
course. This it did in 1861.
Prof. Hirst of San Jose Iceland
Stanford's) university says rumors
exist that Leland Stanford has
made will securing an endowment
of S2O,O0O,0O0 for the college.
There is many a man who favors
woman suffrage and yet says very
little about it. This remark has
special reference to the box whittier
who whites away his hours in ease
and makes his wife support the fam
lily.
The Brooklyn terminus of the
bridge is sixty-eight feet above high
tide. The foundation of the Brook
Ign tower is forty-fve feet below
high water The foundation of the
New York tower is seventy-eight
feet below high water.
A company has been formed in
Kansas City to furnish cool air into
any business house or residence by
the ammonia process. The inventor
of the new process claims that he can
make ice at one-third the cost of its
present production.
An eminent American naturalist
declares that twenty five years
hence the geological museums of
the United States will be as attrac-
tive and pleasing as the picture gal
-eries, and they will teach ten times
as many object lessons as they do