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Show Of 'sewing machines o2ll,UUll were manufactured and sold in this couutry last year. A charming girl in Covington, Ohio, last week giggled to the extent of dislocating dis-locating her lower jaw. Upward of one hundred tobacco harns have been burned in and around Padu-cah, Padu-cah, Ky., within the last two months. Seventy-five bushels of apples of fair quality were sold by auction a few days since in Grafton, Vt., for one cent a bushel. Ten or twelve full-blooded Indians desire to become students in Highland University, Kansas, with a view to enter the ministry in the Presbyterian Church. v A man named Hicks, residing in St. Joseph county, Ind., recently devoured, at a single meal, a ten-pound turkey and a pair of lull-grow chickens, picking pick-ing their bones clean. Many parts of the country are still suffering for want of rain. On Tuesday Tues-day week the Bergen meadows in New Jersey were on fire for many hours and the fire department of the district had to bp called out to quench the flames. It is five years since nitro-glycerine came into use. The one thousand seven hundred persons whom it has killed or maimed for life, and the millions mil-lions of property which it has destroyed, may be styled recommendations of its efficiency. It is now said that Bulwer borrowed the plot, characters, and scenes of the "Lady of Lyons" from a novel called "Periora, or the Bellows Mender of Lyons,'' written by Mrs. Helen Maria Williams, and published fifty years ago in the Nav York Minerva. The celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of a wedding took place in Gustrow, Mcclenburg, the other day. The wife is over 1U0 years old, and has been confined to her bed about a year, while the husband is 98 years old, and still earns his living. "Death," says a Santa Pe paper, "with fleshless knuckles, rapped at the door of Mrs. J. N. B.'s soul, and, obedient obe-dient to the inexorable call, the spirit of that loved woman floated up to its Creator, leaving her husband, children, and friends to mourn over the mortal casket." "I guess you mean to bring up that 'ere one to be pretty sharp at a bargain," bar-gain," said a fellow to a woman who was rocking and singing with all her might to a little responsibility. "Why?" " 'Cause you keep bawling 'By low, baby, by low, baby,' into his ears all the time." It is proposed to introduce sponge-growing sponge-growing into the industries of the harbors har-bors on tbe northeastern coast of our continent. It seems thit one species of the sponge has recently been found thriving in Portland harbor, Me., and it is inferred that it would live in all places on our easiern coast south of that place. |