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Show NEWSPAPER CURRENCY. A load of two tons can be readily carried by a full-grown elephant. The city of New York cares for 16,000 lunatics at a cost of (025,000 a, year. The population of London now exceeds ex-ceeds that of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Chicago combined, and these four are the only American cities having one million or more inhab- A Sajj Francisco exchange raises the alarm that California - is suffering 'a girl famine." In every large town in that state, with the exception of Alameda, Ala-meda, there is a lamentable paucity of the gentler sex. Stockmen in Wyoming report that so far this winter has been very favorable for cattle. More cattle are being fed this winter than in the past, range cattle cat-tle everywhere are reported in excellent condition, and, barring blizzards, the loss will be much less this year than in any former winter. Surprise and terror caused some zinc miners to desert a shaft they were sinking sink-ing at Webb City, Wis, As the opening became deeper, they noticed that the atmosphere became warmer. At the depth of 163 feet the heat was so intense in-tense that work was stopped, and soon they saw flames burst into the shaft. ' |