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Show Silk velvet is now made from cuts' hair. The Dominion Parliament is to be petitioned to establish female prisons in the largo cities. Twenty-five persons met their death by their devotion to base ball durinu the past season. Two young girls were recently admitted ad-mitted as members of the Typographical Typographi-cal Union of Kansas City, Mo. Sir Francis Lyett offers $230,001), if the Wesleyan conference will raise an equal amount, to build fifty chapels in London. The citizens of Bath, Me., still retain re-tain the old custom of having the city bells rung at sunrise and sunset, regardless re-gardless of the clock. The 116-pound nugget of apparently pure copper, recently picked up in Cedar township, , Monroe - county, Iowa, is now declared to be an aerolite. aero-lite. The Lutheran Observer uses the new word "symbolotry" to signify the excessive reverence for creeds alleged to prevail in the Lutheran Church. The Mayor of an interior Texas cky, instead of issuing a proclamation against the dogs, goes through the streets with a double-barrel shot-gun, and shoots them. " The son of a farmer in Dutchess county hid himself in his father's hay mow to learn to smoke. As soon as the stones in the foundation cool oft, the farmer will build a new barn. The census is being retaken in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, and as one ward shows a gain of 2,000, or ten per cent, over the official census, the sanguine Phladel-pbians Phladel-pbians expect a large increase of population. popu-lation. Scene : Boys playing in the roadway. road-way. Clergyman "And so you are building a mud village, are you, and that is the church ? But why haven't you made the parson?" Boy "We hadn't dirt enough." Parson continues his ramble. A Colorado editor, who has been making an ca.- tern tour, announces to his readers as the most remarkable piece of intelligence gleaued in his travels that there are actually newspaper news-paper men on the Atlantic coast, who have not been called on to kill any one for several years. A gentleman, whose taste for collecting collect-ing foiest leaves is well known, was walking on the track of the Boston and Providence Kailroad last week, with a huge bunch of glaring red oak leaves The sun shining on them wave an intensity to the color. The J'ed-ham J'ed-ham special train was approaching in an opposite direction, and the engineer, en-gineer, mistaking the red display for a red flag, immediately whistled on the brake,, which brought all hands to the platform. Discovering the nii.stakc, the brakes were whistled off. The ccntleman in turn, mistaking the demonstration dem-onstration for a mark of respect, gracefully grace-fully bowed his acknowledgements. |