Show RIVALS YET WARM FRIENDS it transpires eliat lion jolin M clayton who foully murdered by a midnight in arkansas on the alth of january was a personal and auti enate friend of lion C II 11 brecken radise ri dise member of congress from arkansas elioso seat in the next congress sir clayton had announced his intention to contest politically they were aa widely separated as alie poles breckenridge Creck enridge being a democrat and a arco trader and clayton a ke publican lican and for protection the canvass which diey made through district lait lai t fall was very animated and on the part of their respective adherents became at times elc sed hugly bitter lint to alie credit of bogli lc adeis it was everywhere admitted that aliey liaa allowed nothing to in a barrier lo 10 friendship mr on hearing hie terrible news ut liis ri valri assassination related to a circle of friends that mr clarion and himself biad resided on adjoining for cars had been together in boy hoods scrapes in school competitions and in the more exciting contests of mature life during the late campaign campi ign while opposing candidates for Congress they rode from place to place in alie same vehicle and frequently slept not only in the aade room but in the same bed li upon investigation the murder filial be foaud to haie a political significance or have been the result of political enmity it li not believed that even mr bitterest pai will be able to aaa name in the affair in any other connection than as a sincere mourner AN AUSTRIAN PROFESS has demonstrated that alie sponge can be actually cultivated in an artificial manner some time ago he a lot of little sponges in a soil favorable to their production and has recently harvested a crop of four full grown ones this may be a great feat in austria but in the west if a stranger acks a crowd the simple question what do you take the spontaneous growth of sponges will be appalling even to the scientist SOME oc the Boutlier ii counties of california adopted the unwise policy last year of rooting up orange groves and staking off their plantations into corner lots now that the real estate boom has collapsed they wish they bad abo trees back again notwithstanding the slaughter however the california crop for this year is estimated at one hundred and seventy alve million oranges between one and a quarter and one and a liala million dollars in value TUB required of all members desiring to join the famous leather apron club founded by benjamin when lie was twenty one was as follows alie laid liis band on his libart and ly repeated 1 I love mankind I 1 think no man should be because 0 his opinions I 1 loe truth will beck it diligently and when found make it known to others A alo alio ainilian at salon oregon was to music and nag as signed to alio trombone in alie pupils brass land lie might have endured all but they cave the 0 sebastian alach added to name of ono week inter lie nas bent to the avith liis larynx irretrievably ruined tho bind lias broken up AN year old pioneer appeared in a san francisco court lio other day with an extraordinary length of hair it was found eliat on leavins bonne in 1819 lie colemn vow never to trim either bis hair or bid beard until ho returned ai lio baa caver returned and has kept hig TOW aoe can iro alne what appearance li |