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Show : INKLINGS. . A gay old bachelor of fifty years, who has been jilted by a frisky widow of seventy-four, threatens a suit for breach of promise of marriage. Wolves enter the churches in Du-luth, Du-luth, Minn. One weighing 1U0 pounds was recently shot in tho Second Presbyterian Pres-byterian Church. The annual consumption of suear in the United States now exceeds 500.000 tons, or 1,000,000.000 pounds, with a constant and steady increase. The steamship subsidv hills now before be-fore Congress foot up $87,500,000 for periods ranging from ten to twenty vears, and in sums from $150,000 to $1,300,000 per annum. A sealed can of oysters' carelessly left on theembers in a stove, in Os-weeo. Os-weeo. exploded with tremendous force, bursting the crate to atoms, shaking the house and severely injuring, a bystander. by-stander. - .. . . . ' Tweniy-three ' persons were murdered, mur-dered, 41 committed suicide, and 160 others died from accidents or were found dead from causes unknown, in Chicago in the past year. That's Chicago's record. The French eagles which supply the places of banners are of pure gld, and worth about $2,000 a piece. The ribbon rib-bon is of silk, five inches wide, three feet long and richly embroidered. A party of Xew York gentlemen are said to have paid 365,000 for the young trotting horse Blackford, in Seott county. Kentucky. - Ho made one race in public as a three-year old, in which he is said to have scored 2:31. A physician in Memphis. Tenn., has presented a modest little billior $3,219 for attendance at tho jnil when required, re-quired, from May 13 to December , 1870, there being one hundred and eichty-cight prisoners confined there during that time. The married women of Brownstown, Indiana, are on the war pith, and have held a public meeting, in which they "resolved" against "worthless, lazy, whining husbands, resembling so many indolent Egyptian mummies." Sensible Sensi-ble women. A colored countable and- deputy-sherift, deputy-sherift, named Thomas Harris, in order to "get his hand in," killed another colored man near Micanopy, Florida, recently. Being the only officer in the vicinity, Harris delivered himself U( to himself, and summoned a jury of in- 3uest, which returned a verdict ol eath by accidental shooting. The huuteroof Siberia, when pressed by hunger, Lake two pieces of b..ard, and placing one on the pit of the stouwh aud the other on the back, gradually draw together the extreme-lief, extreme-lief, and thui aKay, in f-.'me ilcgne, the cravings uf appetite This is .supposed .sup-posed to Ui a very ecotiuuiical kind ol board. |