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Show isaippi regarding the 8ulliv(U.-Kilrain affair are now np on their hind legs howling because under the prison contract labor system Kilrain is boarding with a friend who virtually purchased him for the term for which he was sentenced to remain in durance vile. The marriage of Will Drink to Miss Jennie Freshwater is the local sensation at Loise City, Idaho. The "counts"that infest this land of the free are getting in troublo of late. "Count" Gotta of Germany was recently fined $75 for insulting Chicago ladies, and "Count" Macaroni Dr. Mon-tercole Mon-tercole was jailed in Philadelphia for maligning his American wife who refused to support him. And as in the days of Mosrw, the lawgiver, all the people say Amen. ' Electricity is life and electricity is death. This may seem paradoxical, but it isn't. While New York proposes to execute criminals by means of the subtle fluid, a Philadelphia college of medicine medi-cine intends to amputate limbs and perform other surgical opera) ions through it agency. 1 1 KM-: AND T1IKKR. A woman at Akron, Ohio, recently itave birth to four children. Hut this isn't all. She had previously presented the husbandand the world at lartw with triplets and twius. The father of these installments is said to be on the verve of insanity, insan-ity, and no wonder. The duchess of Albany, daiiKliUT-in-law of Queen Victoria, is attending lectures on hygiene, while the duchess of Fife, a daughter, is butdly engaged in making baby clothes for future use. - A special telexraui from Jersey City to a at. Louis paper says that a Texas steer recently created sensation in that hitherto quiet villasA Coupled with tlie Klark case in New York the neck of the wooks adjacent to Manhattan island is getting to be quite a lively place. Chicago is all torn np at the action of a company com-pany that i-i making gas without authority. Chicago Chi-cago shouldn't worry. It's the fellows that make gas without coal that are to be dreaded. Th" newspapers tha' so heartily endorsed the "mini? stand" taken by (iovemor twry of Mi- |