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Show IULlX;s. ! I Women are now admitted to filiy AmericaD oollees. Kijht thousand deaths by small-pos were reported in London lor the last ! year. i The woolen mills of the United 1 States have now upwards of $00,000,-000 $00,000,-000 invested. Mexico's repudiated insecurities arc I held in Kngland to the extent of $120, There arc marine plants which grow three hundred feet from the bottom ol tiie sea. j Cock (it-hliurf in ouo of tJic sports ! with wbieli the people at Port Wayne, lad., are regaled nightly. Philadcljihia has over two hundred acres of ground devoted to the purposes pur-poses of parks willitn the city limits. On a gate-past in a western town is ! a sign : '"Take warn't. iNo traces nor llil'e in.saranee, -nor so"m' uia.-liecns wanted here." . . . Hon. V. 1J. Reward is very luisy wilh au atnanueubis, preparing fir llie pre.-.s of the Appletons his ' 'Voyage Around the World.'' The lnwr house of the Austrian Picichrath has trranted a credit of 5!2.)0,ii('Hi for relieving necessitous PiO-man PiO-man (.'a'holie priests. Within eighteen months four dealers in Kuiihind have sold hydra'o ol chloral enough to put :!fj,0(iO,000,000 people to sleep. There wore recorded in the dilfereni cities and towns nf MassuchuseLts latt year, 2,25'.) births, 1-1,721 marriages, and 27,S2'J deaths. Tho inhahitants of the city of London Lon-don are beginning to find out that their water suppl for domestic purposes pur-poses is very uuwholcsomo. About three new loaamotivos monthly month-ly arc added 10 the motive power of the several railroads centering in Boston, Bos-ton, to meet increasing business. A boy in Virginia city, Nevada, painted his little brother, and exhibited exhib-ited him as a captured son of Spotted Tail, at twenty-live cents a Lickct. Ilorsc-car conductors in . New York are said to steal only four or five dollars dol-lars a day except on holidays, when sometimes they "knock down" as much as fifteen dollars. In France the manufacturing . of matches sustains 25,000 workmen, and seven millions of francs aro invostod in the business. The government proposes pro-poses to tax it. Germany and Austria are uniting to induce emigration of laborers and skilled workmen from the former country coun-try to the latter, in placo of to Aoic-rica. Aoic-rica. A cat panic exists in Kcithsburg, III. An enterprising individual, lately arrived, ar-rived, has gone into the fur business and pays tho boys fifteen cents apiece for well grown feline specimens. The crop is growing short. Another man has written a poem about the Chicago fire, thirty-four verses long, which begins thus : "Hark I what hollish glare is that I sec upon tho sky ? Is Unit the aurora borcalis that streams aloft on high ? No ! it is the bloody Fire Fiend whoso banners I descry. And ho will liiy tho proud town low whoso inhabitants the laws of God and man defy," |