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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. The sheriff of Santa Clara, Cal., clears $4000 a year from boarding county prisoners. A hatter at Wilkesbarre, Pa., has made a straw hat with a brim fourteen feet in circumference. Mrs. Henry Mullen, of Middleton Corners, Ohio, has given birth to the seoond pair of twins within a year. The barge office in New York City is now kept open on Sundays for the reception re-ception of the incoming throng of immigrants. im-migrants. Mrs. Anna Roush, of Letart.Ohio, has fully . two thousand living decendants. She was born in Morgantown, Pa., June 4, 1787. A colored woman of Adairsville dropped drop-ped dead from heart disease from the effects of applying snuff to her gums with a tooth brush. There is a child in Franklin, Pa., who sleeps every other three days, and is apparently in perfect health. The cas"e bullies the doctors. A Howell (Mich.) justice of the peace recently sentenced a man to hfteen days in the county jail for stealing an umbrella on a rainy day. A silver eel four feet four inches in length and weighing nine pounds aud six ounces was caught at Canaan Four Corners, N.Y., last week. Ninety-five cremations have taken placo in the crematory at Cincinnati, the latest one last week. The crematory crema-tory has been built only two years. A bull snake was killed in Bennett Valley, Sonoma county, California, that measured eight feet four inches long and weighed twenty pounds. In selecting the names of a jury to try a man for murder down in Georgia, the name of the murdered man was drawn out of the box along with the others. Speaking of brief names, there is a family in France named B, one in Bel-glum Bel-glum named O, a river in Holland called the Y and a village in Sweden named A. A colored thief at Bridgeport, Conn., jumped Into the canal, and the policeman police-man who was chasing him followed suit and arrested the fellow in the water. Shade is such a rare thing in Pasco, Oregon, that the Pilot remarks: The shade of the radish and lettuce leaves is noticeable, and has a cooling effect upon all passers-by. . . At Chisamba, Africa, the young people peo-ple have asked the missionary to raise a flag Saturday evenings that they may know that the next day is Sunday and come to meetings. Georg3 Moss of Wilkesbarre, Pa., murdered his wife, and the jury says he must hang. The condemned man says he is glad ho was not sentenced to prison pri-son for life, as lie much prefers hanging. hang-ing. - (., ;,'.. ! |