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Show j 1XKLIVOS. Newark claims to. Lave had an cigli-i cigli-i teen month';' boy die. of dolirum trc- The Hon. John -Morriey is report- .' ed to have lost lare sums: of money on , : the ro.vnt Saratoga race--. According to (Iracfi Greenwood ' John A. Logan wages a daily war upon j tobacbo destroying more of it than 1 any other man in Congress. 1 California beets: are so large that '. pigs eit tunnels through them without disturbing the outsi io. Heat this story ; who isn ! A Polish merchant and hiH wife were ; flogge.J the other day at the police office in Warsaw, for running into a jj hous-3 in order not to salute a process-ion process-ion of Russian prie.-ts that was passing by in the streets. ;. St. Thomas, the nev Episcopal Church, on Fifth avenue, New York, ' has engaged a musical conductor at a ! salary of $5,000 a year, and furnished ;. him with an elegant residence. "Now that the sun's rays are of in-' in-' 1 creased power," cooly remarks an editor out west, "a large amount of enjoy-; enjoy-; ' ment may be obtained by juveniles by , ' throwing the reflection thereof from a ' mirror iir a piece of tin into people's eyes. "When rightly managed, this is . a source if much innocent pleasure." i A womsMi named Carr fell from a .' fourth stoi'y window in Rochester to the ground, a distance of forty feet six inches, by actual measurement, the ,i . .other day. No bones were broken, 4 and but few i bruises sustained, the wo- , man striking . clothes line in her de- ,;; scent, which b Toke the force of her fall. : There were : '-,800 inmates in the pris- ons of Massa chusetts on the 1st of .' July last Thi e were 1,100 in the i House of Correc tion, 405 in the Boston House of Indnsl y, 220 in the State Workhouse, 572 boys and girls in the ' ' three State Refor matories, and 278 in ' the Boston City R 'eformatory making 1 a grand total of 5,b belonging to the 1 criminal class. V "Mary Magdalen had seven devils cast out of her. I never heard of a ". - man having seven d "evils cast out of ' : him," growled an old bachelor in the coarse of a discussion i i the "woman : question." "No, thej ''re not cast out ' yet, I brieve ," was th quiet reponse ; f bis fair antagonist. ; The latest egg story comes from ! Clinton, Iowa, where a 1 oeal paper re-, lates how a lady dropped ; u egg into a I flour barrel a few weeks ago, forget-! forget-! : ting the incident altogethei ' until a few ? days ago, when she was s urpnssdby 5 the peeping of a chick en which t had hatched from that idei tical egg. The hot weather had done tht 'business, and the chicken is alive anddi 'iDS well. |