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Show HCR.Vl'S. At Auburn, Cal., a womau was watching watch-ing her hens which were scratching iu the garden, when she saw them unearth a bright object aud try their bills upon it. She took it into tho house and it proved to be a chunk of gold worth $57. Doctors, as a rule, are reticent about their fees, but Dr. Willard Parker was paid $IU0.000 for the successful removal of an excrosence from the face and neck of the son and heir of one of the wealthiest wealth-iest families in the vicinity of New York. An elephant at Philadelphia died suddenly sud-denly the other day from enlargement of tho heart. Its heart was found to be abnormally large. It more than filled a washlub, und weighed 102 pounds. The big-hearted but unfortunate animal was 114 years old. Mrs. Marshall of Dubuque, recently laughed so heartily and opened her mouth so wide that sho was unable to close it, A surgeon had to break one of her jaw bones in order to "shut her mouth." She is now eatiug liquid food with a spoon. Not every person kuows that the sure test of genuine .paper currency is to hold the bill up to the light so that you can discern two lines running parallel across its entire length. These are a red and blue silk thread inside the paper. pa-per. No counterfeit has them. Miss Minnie Leach married Lung Poy, a "washerman," in Boston day before be-fore yesterday. The miuister said his usual fee was $5. "Twouo do lit all givee," said the Ch'naman. The clergyman clergy-man did not fancy :.iis cut iu the rate's, but took it all the same. In Siam you can get good board for forty-five cents a week, and this includes in-cludes washing, the use of two servants to run errands, tickets to shows, three shaves and all the cigars you cau smoko. But it is almost impossible to earn forty-live forty-live cents a w eek in Siam. On a recent trial in Wales to test the validity of a will it was proved that in the testator became impaired in intellect to such an extent that he went to the postoflice with a postage stamp on his forehead and requested to be sent to a place he meutioned. As an instance of the loss of stock in the John Day section, Oregon, it is related re-lated that two piles of dead horses were found on Bridge Creek, one of eighteen and tho other of nine head. Thev had evidently huddled together to escape the cold and perished one by one. Small-pox has broken out in an English Eng-lish settlement known as the "Peculiar People.' whose doctrines include a disbelief dis-belief in the efficacy of doctors or medicine. med-icine. The most that tho health authorities au-thorities havo been able lo do has been to enforce the isolation of patients. A passenger ear on the Boston and Maine railway was ignited by steam heat a few days auo, and it was necessary neces-sary lo cut out a part of the floor to quench out the (lames. The incident is not calculated to reassure believers in the absolute safety of steam as a heating heat-ing agency. |