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Show CLIPPED AND CONDEMSED. Artificial musk is a recent chemical achievement. A Milford, N. J farmer wears a pair of spectacles that he claims are luOyears old. The far West has vied with the South in sending watermelons to the northern markets this year. A -'peepiug Tom" at Martinez, Cal., was caught in a tree tho other night and was played on with a hose until he begged for mercy. There are said to be 15,000 boarding house keepers in New York, aud 1,000 persons living in boarding houses who have for years lived by paying little or nothing. Natural gas has come so scarce at Pittshurg that many of the leading iron works cannot run full time, and the probability is that they will be obliged to returned to the use of coal. Female clerks employed in tho German Ger-man postal telegraph service are from this time forward ordered to wear a uniform, uni-form, which consists of a blue jers-sy, with orange collar and brass buttons. |