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Show -- - INKLINGS. Down ju Jersey the girls call the New York city swells "spuds." Manchester, England, possesses sixty trades' unions, numbering altogether alto-gether about 25,000 members. North Cornwall, Conn., enjoys the notoriety of having a bride who has njt yet attained her thirteenth year. A Brooklyn editor seized a child in payment for a debt of S13, and held it uutil the police got after him. ffm. B. Ford, of Seneca, Grundy Co., 111., states that,during the months of August and September, he lost nearly 600 hogs by cholera. During a storm last week, a man was blown from the top of a freight train on the Hartford and New Haven railroad, and literally cut to pieces. A special train of thirteen freight cars lately conveyed from Liverpool to London seventy four tons of Mexican silver dollars, worth nearly 5,000,000 sterling. A firm in Bloomington, Illinois, has obtained a verdict for $60,000 against the Illinois Central railroad company, for delay in shipments of corn from different points on the road. Other like suits will be at once instituted. In Boston, two policeman have been fined fifteen dollars each and costs, for punching a Milk street merchant's head and threatening to twist his hands off with "the twisters," because he had yawned in the street in what they conceived to be an insulting manner. A fiend in human shape was engaged en-gaged in planking a sidewalk in a certain cer-tain western city, when a woman in gorgeous apparel stopped ncar the scene of his labors to chat with a friend. Her train hung over the edge of the last p'ank he had put in position, posi-tion, and he quietly slid another one alongside of it, and securely spiked it down. The fiend then went away to dinner. In Pittsburg an enterprising young woman succeeded for three years iu passing herself at a respt'etuble boarding-house lor a man, went through a complete course of studies at a commercial com-mercial college, graduated with honor, and, to cap the climax, courted and promised to marry an estimable young lady, all without any suspicion in regard re-gard to her sex until an accident exposed ex-posed the deception. A suit was recently tried at Portland, Port-land, Me., in which the plaintifl was a female claiivoyant, who claimed SI 25 for services as physician. Tn eros-ex-amination by the court, she testified that she had prescribed as a clairvoyant clairvoy-ant for nine years; that she although blind could see through any living person, di.eover diea-es, and use medicines med-icines intelligently. After an absence of three hours, the juiy returned into court with a verdict fur 5. |