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Show I'KLIIVOS. The exact population of Ohio, according ac-cording to the corrected returns, is 2,-663,631. 2,-663,631. A new billiard saloon, with twenty-eiyht twenty-eiyht tables, will be opened in Chicago on the 14th. White Pine produced bullion to the value of $151,005 13 during the month of October. , A negro church in Indianapolis recently re-cently made 65 by charging au admittance admit-tance fee of ten cents to see a wed ding. The Chinese relieve neuralgia and gout by applying oil of peppermint over the part affected with a camel's hair pencil. An Ohio woman has sued her husband hus-band for divorce, because he refused to believe in the damnation of still-born infants. I lOne hundred and seventy-six of the street lamps in St. Louis ceased to burn during the recent cold snap, having hav-ing frozen up. At Farmington, Wis.,. Lucy Sutton, aged 15, committed suicido by taking strychnine the other day, on account of "disappointed love." A man in Effingham, 111., got on a huge spree the other day, and drank so much poor whisky that he vomit ed himself to death before relief could be given him. A gentleman at Fremont, Ohio, had a reception at his house the other night, and when the guests departed it took the host all night to wash the tar and pick the feathers off his person. The census returns show that Cleveland Cleve-land has 551 inhabitants over 70 years old, 100 more than SO years, 6 more than 90 years, and 1, an Irishman named Patrick Bradley, more than 100. Because his girl "went back on him," a love-sick swain at Plover, Wisconsin, decided to end his troubles by drowning. drown-ing. He took off his boots and jumped into the river where it was two feet deep, then crawled out and decided to wait till spring. A Hindoo named Kamadbeen was recently tried in northern India on a terrible charge. The number of victims vic-tims of this man-eater is thus far unknown. un-known. He has, however, killed twenty-seven in a year and a half, and displayed an especial taste for men that called themselves holy when on pilgrimages. Poor Theodore Hall, who seeks a divorce di-vorce at St. Louis, has a tale of rare matrimonial infelicity to reveal. The wife weighs thirty pouuds more than he, and, he says mournfully, "always got the best of me ; she would strike uie and knock me around generally." Once .-he kuueked him over with a coal oil lamp, aud lamps and flat-irons were Imr u.-unl weapon.-, indeed, though she sometimes varied to the uc ofa hatchet. He says, sadly, "She was too sharp to show her temper before marriage. ' |