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Show Albany lias a French Count at work on its docks. Arassiz predicts a tidal wavo sixty feet Ligh on the Atlantic next year. . Commissioner Wells gives the amount paid for spirituous liquors at retail at $4S3,301,S65 yearly. Miss Minnie Bradbury, of Marshal county, Indiana, is studying theology, with a view of entering the ministry. ' Hartford complains of the way the census was taken, and tolls of forty-three forty-three persons in one building who were entirely overlokad. Coal-boats are lying tlneo abreast for a space of seven miles along the river about Jefl'ersonvillo, Ind., waiting wait-ing for an opportunity to get over the falls. The Janesville, - Wis., Ooxttle says that the flies are so plentiful and troublesome that some of their best sleepers are obliged to keep awake during divine service. i George E. Crockett, of Parkhaui, Mass., some years ago stocked a pond with four or live trout, and is now catching an abundance of three or fbur-pouuders. i - Tlie town of Alpena, Michigan,' was nettled in 1S0O. There are now twenty mills, employing six hundred men and turning out sixty miWon feot of lumber per aumtttii ' ' i Tho prairies west of Hayei City, Kansas, are literally covered with buffalo. It is thought tbat they are more" plentiful this season than ever before. Numbers of them are killed by hnting parties. A thunderbolt weighing thirty-five pounds was picked up in Green county, l'enn., soma short time since - by a farmer named Beuvard, who had 'seen it lull. . It resembles hard sandstone. A-Polish C'ouut, unmed C'hriatianus Bernadofski is now working in a harness-maker's shop in Galesburg, Ills. He was born in W arsaw in 1NU3. In 18i'i3 ho was involved in one of the Polish rebel norm, but escaped to this country. A company, principally from Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and Illinois, havt purchased a tract of four thousand acres of land about eight miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Within a ycat six hundred men, with their families, will be at work on the tract. "A merchant at Trempcleau, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, recently, on going to his desk one eyeuinj, about nine o'clock, to make some entry, found a snake curled up near the loot of the desk, which, on being killed, was found to measure four feet seven inches. The executive committee uf the Illinois Illi-nois Industrial University has voted in lavor of the admission of female students, stu-dents, in case their parents shall have provided thcui suitable hojue. The committee also abolished ail charges for tuition, making it free to all. W hile clear; a e a portion of the whortleberry inarch near Buchanan. Michigan, Kiiue wvu accidcntly exhumed ex-humed the remains of a Immaii being, aud upon tboroui search being made, it was found that a rope was around the skeleton's neck. Further developments develop-ments are looked for with great interest inter-est by that community. |
