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Show CULLED FROM EXCHANGES. j Junt Ihc T"rj.o:icc Rrau-n From 1 flozciis of Sources. There arc Go.Bj? post offices in I the United States. J The number of suicides in the i L'nitcd States last year was 2,G-i(l. ' The Bkigham Bt ni.i;t; will cele- j hrate its first birthday on Sunday next. Salt Lake Jlcmhl. After July our good old Union flag will have forty-four stars, ! the last added representing Wyom- i " ; A Texas man has patented a j machine by which a cow milks herself by the motion created in chewing her cud. Italy hna been visited this week by destructive earthquakes. The convulsions have caused lava to flow from Vesuvius. A young man in Lchi has been arrested for assaulting hi a jnuiher-in-law. Here is a good opportunity for the funny paragraphcr to get in his deadly work. Kuriha Chief. What would the world do without with-out women ? Well, we ha rdly , know but some of the loafers j would probably have to keep board- i i:ig house, or take in washing. Xxuvon Hustler. Three men traveling with what they call a petrified woman have bren in town several days this week with their curiosity on exhibition. The body was said to have been recently found in California. Those who have been to sec the exhibit say it is reallv a curiosity or a work of art, but it is hard to tell which, i Park- fcrrrrf. An observing exchange, back j east, says the man who wipes his ! nose on his sleeve, picks liis teeth 1 with a fork", squirts tobacco juice j on the cook stove hearth, rides to ! mill with corn in one end of the j sack and a rock in the other, drives tot wn with hickory bark lines, de- ! posits his money in his last year's sock, insists on paying his tax in j coon skins and wild honey, fastens his gallrs with a wooden peg and ; wears "possum belly" pants, is the same old rooster who has no use for his home paper, and his brother is the same old fellow who tries to do business in town without a line of advertising. Tlie Bight Rev. Lawrence Scan-lan. Scan-lan. D. D., of Salt Lake, who was Thursday officially appointed Bishop of the Salt Lake diocese hv the Pope of Rome, said to a Ifrruhl reporti', Tuesday, that during hi.-j hi.-j JS-ycars in Utah be had "always j gotten along peaceably with (he Mormons bv roin" ahead and di- ing his own business." The Bishop ne. ut r in d an incident showing the kind manner in which he had been recei ved by the Mormons. He was down in Si. George and dc-oring to hold mass, thi- Mormons Mor-mons gave up their own services and turned tl c tabernacle over to i him, where he preached and gave mass, the Mormon choir volunteering volunteer-ing to sirg the mass. |