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Show Told In Few Word, Eton, or the collection of schools which constitute what is popularly known as Eton, has 1,(100 sch lurs. The Columbia river is so clear at low water that salmon fishing cau only be successfully conducted at night. Japanese lace is coming into market. It is a new manufacture, ui-l hitherto has been mainly consumed at home. An Atchison, Kan., man who has sent a S5 bill to England ia an euvel-ope euvel-ope for the past twenty years Miys that he bus never lo t a dollar. The hritish Museum appears to be losing its popularity. The number of visitors last year was iiO.UOO below tbe uuml.er of five years ago. It is said that old sailors are made seasick by the excessive amount of vibration vi-bration caused hy the propellers of some of the high speed cruisers. The "city article" of the London Times informs its readers that Chicago is destined to become one of the greatest great-est grain-growing Stutes in the union. A Maine farmer who believes in a strict ol servance of the Subbath went out and killed a lamb which pernist d in bleating on a recent Sunday afternoon. |