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thirty million dollars.
Rhode Island, the smallest State, has
the largest population to the square mile.
- Dakota courts are furnishing all the
divorces sought by unhappy couples in
the Fast.
- The Queen of Italy has 1000 dress.
No wonder government expenses have
been curtailed.
When Charles Tunnison was killed
by tightening at Warren, o., beneath
tree, on his chest was photographed the
image ofa branch of tree.
- The latest is from a Lexington jury
Of finquest, whose verdict was that "the
man come to his death by what was the
| matter with him before he died." Next.
- Commissioner Raum boasts that he
is adding 100000 pensioners to the pension
list every year. Raum is daisy. Asa
pansioner the Confederate armies were
not circumstance to him.
A Now York hotel-kecper is exbib-
iting box OF twenty-five cigars which
have been sent him by Havana maker
as q sample of what the Prince of Wales
smokes. They are seven inches long and
cost 81 800 thousand.
"A resident of Ansonia, Conn.,, declares
that it always rains there on the 25th of
July. He says that his family has kept
a record of the weather for 100 years and
In all that time there hasn't been July
25th on which it did not rain.
George Holmes, of Cincinnati, is the
owner OF peculiar diamond. In the
morning it is beautiful sky blue, al
noon is perfectly white, and at o'clock
In the evening it begins to turn black,
and after sunset it is like piece of coal.
AT the great reunion Of the Smith
family in New Jersey one of tho oldest
women present summed up her estimate
of the difference between the old times
and the new one in these words, "There
were more trees then and folks were hon
ESTER"
There is an average Of nine murders
a week in this country committed by
drunken men, and to be directly traced
to whiskey. Yet with this fearful record
and 1t is only one count in the indict-
ment-there are people who say: "Do
not agitate prohibition
-Smokeless powder having proven
success, and smokeless locomotives be-
ing near probability, the inventive geni-
US should now turn his attention to the
creation Of a smokeless cigarette, which, if
successful, would cause all womanhood
if not mankind to rise up and call him
blessed.
The Georgia Legislature has passed,
by decided vote, bill fixing the State
license to sell liquor at 5000. An amend
ment fixing the license at SlO0 was voted
down, as was also an amendment to ex-
empt manufacturers Of spirituous or malt
liquors who sell in original packages of
not less than ten gallons.
- The sporting citizens Of Houston,
Texas, to the number of 5000 turned out
few days ago to witness a goat race.
There were sixty-three entries, big books
were made on the event, and hundreds of
pools were sold. The mayor and other
city and county officials officiated as start
ers and judges. Some of the goats made
200 yards in 81 seconds in harness.
A Spartanburg, S. c., special says:
D. r. Swetzer, prominent citizen of this
county, met with painful accident. He
was suffering with inflammation oftheeyes
and filled an eyeglass with what he sup
posed to be an eyewash and asked his
wife to drop it in his eyes. She did so
and it proved to be carbolic acid. He
may never recover the use of his eyes.
- According to Government regula-
tion no freight trains are to be dispatched
on Sundays and holidays in Belgium
after October 20 next. The regulation
went into partial operation last June, but
it was only to be operative at the discre-
ton of the railroad authorities. The idea
was to make the innovation gradual, but
after October 20 rigid adherence to it
will be eXacted. Railroad employees are
the objects of the Governments solicitude
in this matter.
- Ex-senator Norwood, of Georgia,
has formed new sub-trcasury bill, which
he proposes to lay before the Alliance.
He says he has METAL the objections that
were urged against the old bill, and that
his measure will stand the closest analy-
sis by the ablest constitutional lawyers of
the country. He will not yet make pub
lie the dete:ls Of his scheme. He has
gone to Washington to lay it before Polk
and Macune.
- A novel cure Tor nervous diseases is
being practiced in Worishofen, Bavaria.
The treatment is the outcome Of the study
of al old priest and consists chiefly in
spraying water over the body in various
places, dressing at once without drying
and brisk walking Immediately after
ward. The diet is carefully attended to
and thousands have been cured of ner-
vous troubles which had defed all previ-
Gus physicians.
- Mr.. Eliphas Stokes, living near San
tee, lost a mule last week by its being
stung to death by bees. Mr.. Stokes son
was plowing with the mule near two bee
gums when the mule struck the gums
and brought the angry bees about him.
He ran until exhausted, and suffering OK
cruciating pain in every part of his body,
he fell. He was taken to the stable and
died that night in great agony. The boy
only received two or three stings.- Union
Times.
- The Indians OH the Sisseton reserva-
ton, North Dakota, were paid for their
land some time ago, and one old buck in
vested three or four hundred dollars of
his money in a hearse, which some liv-
cry stable keeper made him believe was
just the thing. for a family carriage. Tho
old fellow had two big bellied ponies, and
it was comical sight to see him driving
about perched on the seat of that hearso
and his squaw and papooses squatting in
side.