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Show ! QUEER AND CURIOUS. A jaguar will rather attack a black man than a white one. ; A man in Jefferson county, Pa., has lost his sight from drinking too much ice water while heated. Texas has a double headed cat. It is perfect in form except the two heads. It has four eyes, four ears and two mouths. A sparrow at Colestown, Pa., has built a nest in the running gear of a farmer's wagon, and makes a trip to market every week. There is a woman at Sedalia, Mo., who becomes thoroughly charged with electricity every time she rides on the electric road. For the benefit of ladies living in the country New York city hair dealers have arranged a book of samples in which specimens of crimps and curls are sent. Fashionable entertainments are enormously enor-mously extravagant in London. Several have cost between $30,000 and $40,000 recently. The flowers for a bachelor 'party cost 3,000. A well to do farmer named Richard Carmichael.of Queen Anne county, Md., has kept a diary for thirty years, and it shows that it has invariably rained on the 26th of July during that time. The Kentville (N. S.) Star tells a story of a man buying an orange for a sick wife and returning it the next day with the startling announcement that she was dead. It says the; story is vouched for. Experiments prove that the Atlantic breakers have a force of three tons to the square foot; thus a surface of only two square yards snstains a blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to fifty-four fifty-four tons. One of the largest forests in the world stands on ice. It is situated between Ural and the Okhotsk sea. 'A well was recently dug iu tins region, when it was found that at a depth of 116 meters the ground was still frozen. There is a dog iu Topeka, Kan., which attends every funeral that takes place in that city. His owrierUves on the road leading to the cemetery, and .whenever a funeral passes the house the dog joins the procession and trots along beside the , itAirsit |