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Show ixiai.(. The ''talking machine-' woman. Punch. Sing Sing now contains fouitoen hundred prisoners. Evansville, Ind.r has a 1UO,UOO breach of promise case. One of the Newport hotels has cleared 40,0on profits in two months. New York audiences are disgusting Nilsson by demanding three "encores. " An oyster has been captured at Norfolk, Nor-folk, Virginia, measuring twenty-two inches. " Extravagance in street toilets has been resolved against by New York ladies. Five hundred women worked in the field in Outagamie county, Wis., this season. . "The University of Zurich, in .Switzerland, .Swit-zerland, has nineteen women medical students. . ' - - . - : A woman has carried off the 500 prize for the best managed farm in Oxfordshire, Ox-fordshire, England. The Chicago Board of Education has adopted a rule prohibiting teachers from receiving presents from their pupils, pu-pils, on pain of dismissal from service.' One of the African M. E. churches in Kentucky sent to conference for an educated minister. The Bishop in reply re-ply called on them for fifty dollars to help educate miuisters. The British troops sent to suppress the Bed Biver insurrectien, were more puzzled to find the whereabouts of it than to suppress it when found. i Among the many innocent sports of childhood in St. Louis, one of the most popular and pleasing it the dropping drop-ping of tire into the letter boxes on the street corner. - A German paper 'reports that the soldiers of the 43d Prussian infantry strapped their knapsacks to their breasts during the battle of Metz. On the night of the battle many of them found out that they owed their lives to this foresight, as some of the knapsacks knap-sacks were literally riddled with bullets. bul-lets. "Suppose," cries the Ball Mall Ga-. tft'r, "the French Bepnblic, eager to wipe out tho disgrace of the prer-ent war, should some day help the Ameri- j can Bepnblic to avenge the Alabama wronsrs; and then suppose the Fenians should take a hand in the fight (a they surely would wml to: 'l and suppose another Bepublic should rise up in Spain, and insist on having Gibraltar ; and suppose, on the top of all thi, Rusiia should crowd its to the wall in Aua : what a pretty pickle England would be in '." A laiuiei wao dividing his property among his four sons. In return one was to board him, another was tn j lodge him, a third to clothe him, and the fourth at hi.- death was to bear the funeral expenses. Alter fouie little consideration, each teemed latished wit'i Irs Kit, except the fourth, who kept silent. "Are you not content '. ' asked the lawyer. 'l don't know," replied the hopeful, "I was thiukin how much it would cost-to pla nt the old man.'- |