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Show INKLINGS. A Kichuionil womau asks lb r a divorce, di-vorce, saying she had not seen her husband hus-band since he murdered her father. The passengers iu a snow-bound train in Wisconsin had to tunnel through the snow in order to reach the nearest village. Ka'.iny Ellslor, the once famous dancer, dan-cer, is not only still alive, but, quite vigorous in health, and enjoys the luxuries lux-uries her large fortune yields her. A Leavenworth paper tells how a bloody domestic tragedy would have occurred "had not Providence stayed the grinning edge of the hungry axe." In the winter of 1741, Francis Lewis, one of the signers of the "Declaration of Independence," rode from New York to Barnstable, Mass., tho whole length of Long Island Sound, on the ice. Apropos of the efl'eets of ad dict of horse-flesh, excuse is being found for the Paris National Guards who ran away at Creteil on the plea that they had lately been fed exclusively exclu-sively off race horses. Mrs. Polly Mclntyre, aged 113, was burned to death the other day at Canoe, Winneshiek County, Iowa. How much longer she might have lived but for this untoward accident it is impossible to say. The Congressional Library now comprises com-prises 197,008 volumes, and about 3S,-000 3S,-000 pamphlets. Of this aggregate, 27,170 volumes belong to the law department. de-partment. The new law which requires a deposit of all publications claiming a copyright in the library is rapidly increasing in-creasing the extent of the collection. Some Kansas boys thought to have a little fun on Christmas Day by playing play-ing war. So "the French" took refuge ref-uge behind a haystack, and "the Prussians" Prus-sians" dislodged them by burning the stack. The question which agitates the little community now is whether the fathers of the Prussians or those of the French should pny for the stack. The li U Mall GaztW:, noticing tho fact that marriages arc sometimes petornicd in railway trains in the United States, observes: "It becomes a question whether whe-ther in this country the funeral service might not with propriety be performed over the passengers in tho waiting-room waiting-room of the stations before the departure depar-ture of the trains on some of our principal prin-cipal railways." The census returns show that no other city in tho country of a population popula-tion exceeding 110,01X1 has grown as rapidly ra-pidly within the last decade as Kansas City, Mo. In I860 its population was only 4,721, and iu L70 it was ol',20, the ratio of increase being Oj:i per cent. Kansas City owes her prosperiiy to energy en-ergy and enterprise in the management manage-ment aud completion of railroad connections. con-nections. Five and a half years ai;c she had not a single road; now she ha: eight prosperous railroads. |
