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Show Two more of the Rothschilds have married each other. The diamond miners use a "cradle" to produce their "rocks.'' Victor IIupo is writinc a terrible , book on "a terrible year." The daily average of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania oil regions s t,,4l barrels. Camarpo, III , has a population of 2,(NX, and not a single young lady. Forty buildings is one item in a recent re-cent shipment from London to Calcutta. Calcut-ta. Florida hopes next year to be able to supply the cutirc country with bannan-as. bannan-as. Cincinnati is to have an union depot that will be used by six railroad companies. com-panies. Twouty-two of the prisoners iu the Michigan penitentiary are named Smith. One (iritl'oi' the new Canada thistle whisky is said to prolong the exhilaration exhilara-tion lor thirty hours. Sewing machines are soon to be introduced in-troduced in the public schools of the State of North Carolina. A Hartford lady screamed when she found she was trying to cat a uioiuo by mistake for a doughnut. The Boston Journal announces that winter has come. The frog pond on tho common has frozen over. Coroner's juries at La Crosse call it "probable murder" when a person is fouud with seven stabs in his back. According to a late number of the London Times Chicago is bounded on the north and west by Lake Michigan. Tobacco is shown by official figures to cost moro than bread in Germany, Holland, tho United States and England. Eng-land. There are in the United States blind persons over UK) years of age: also, two deaf and dumb, seven insane, and five idiots. Some one with spare time on his hands has been investigating a bushel of wheat, and reports that it contains 6G0.000 grains. Some Ohio man ottered the government govern-ment $50,000 for the privilege of advertising ad-vertising on tho backs of the postage stamps one year. Sinco the fires in the northwestern forests bears and other wild animals are said to bo rjuito troublesome in the distripts burned qyor- An Illinois farmer placed the dead body of his child in the cellar and postponed tho burial until he got through digging his potatoes, A farmer near fclretmupsburg, Ky., has raised on eight acres of ground this season KM bushels and 30 pounds of corn being 1 3 bushels to the acre. The aggregate value of church property pro-perty in ifew ifork olty Is stated to be $200,00G',000, and' that of such amount Trinity corporation alone is said to possess fiaO.OOO.QOO. If general Sherman and Grant's boy are going to Europs at "their own expense," why do they go in a government govern-ment vessel, instead of one of the regular stcaniors that carry passengers at advertised rates? J'h Cleveland Plain Dealer. The two hundredth anniversary of tho birth of Peter the Great occurs on the 30th of May i. o., the 11th ol June, according to our reckoning 1772, and tho Russians intend to celebrate cele-brate it by opening a great polytechnic exhibition at Moscow on that day. Al nations are invited to contribute. |