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Show IKLIXGS. There is not a school of any description descrip-tion in Patrick county, Virginia. Forty convicts were converted at the Nashville Penitentiary last year. It is a criminal offense in Elinois to call a man a "mutton-headed pagan." They "dedicated" a new stable in Boston the other night by holding a ball in it. . London congratulates herself because she had last month no more than 14n,-CXVi 14n,-CXVi paupers. Fifty-nine newspapers in towns and cities on the Pacific coast perished during dur-ing the past year. . . One of the most successful planters in Wisconsin is a widow who has just buried her sixth husband. -; The average number of railway travellers trav-ellers injured by accidents is said to be only one out of every half million. California people use. on an average, ten gallons of wine each annually, and sixteen and three-fifth pounds of coffee. cof-fee. ' Among ;100 divorces granted in Vermont Ver-mont this year, the wife acknowledged to having originiated difficulty in 211 of the cases. The people of Johnson county, Indiana, In-diana, were much chargined that, nler spending $40,000 on a new jail, a little wizened chap was able to dig his way out with a jackknife in twenty-four hours. The new education laws of England have directed public attention to test books. One writer declaring that "it is hardly an exaggeration to say that there does not exist such a thing as a good English gammar." A Kentucky girl, who married a fellow fel-low of mean reputation, was taken to tak f-r it by her uncle. "I know, uncle." she replied, "that Joe is not good for much; but he said I dared not have him, and I won't take a stump from anybjdy." The mocking bird in Florida has a special tbndness for the berry of the Pride-of'-China tree, upon the juice of which he jrets exceedingly tipsy. The spectacle of a flock of intoxicated mocking mock-ing birds is said to be equivalent to half a dozen temperance lectures. The miracle of the aire has been fnund in the person of William II. North, who won't take the Statu Si;n-atorship Si;n-atorship of the Tenth District of Wi-con.-in, because he only got the certificate certifi-cate of election on account of tho misprinting mis-printing of his opponent's name on some .-ix hundred ballots. An Uhio man who paed around a j'late at a nd it.' inns meeting for cotitri-hutitms cotitri-hutitms fir lite heathen, and then pocketed the intntey, has l-'en acquitted of stealing by a jury of the vicinage on the ground that lie wa.s the greatest heathen thev knew, mid therefore ju.-tly entitled to the money. A if an Frauri-oi undertaker claim-to claim-to have di-cYrrel a new method ot preserving the d ad huiiiau body. I!y this procc-s he pi tritK.-: it. He exhibits exhi-bits a body that he petritied iu July, 1 ''', and it shows no sicus nf divay. When htnii'k it give out "rincitii.", metallic sound." 'J'l.e eolnr of the tle.ih is not changed. |