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Show INKLINGS. The Austrian Empire, according to late census returns, has a population of 35,943,592 souls. Indiana contemplates cutting off the only inducement 10 residence within her limits by revising her divorce law. A Cincinnati merchant states that they have a "ring" in that city for increasing in-creasing the price of coal during certain cer-tain months of the year. A Chicago woman who has met with an accident which renders her a cripple for life, advertises for a husband hus-band who has btfen similarly unfortunate. unfortu-nate. In the villager iu the neighborhood of Metz alone, there are 20,000 poor, utterly destitute, who will require re- het all through the winter. A Quincy, Ills., cat, the other day, jumped from the roof of a house to the ground, a distance of twenty-one feet, and alighted squarely on her feet without injury. Over fifty New York street conductors conduct-ors were arrested last week for withholding with-holding part of the fares they collected. Women were employed as "spotters' to deteet them. The anti-marriage-for-life-women have adopted this motto for their banners: ban-ners: "Whatever in point of morals nullifies a marriage, should, in point of law, authorize a divorce." The Revolution expresses intense indignation because "nearly every female fe-male student of medicine is obliged to endure insults more or less galling from the half-baked medical sawbones with whom she is associated. " Mrs. George P. Morgan, of Upper Alton, Ills., claims to raise the most prolific corn in the world. It is called Egyptian Joint Corn, and produces ten or twelve ears to the stalk or two hundred bushels to the acre. Over a year ago, Colonel Paston, of South Olive, Pa., lost a set of tools in an oil well he was boring, and never could get them out The earthquake, the other day, gave that well a twist, and the tools came out, several feet in the air. An Illinois Judge lately decided that no one in that State can be denied de-nied the civil right and privilege of testifying belbre a court of law because of atheism. If the atheist believes an oath to be binding, it must be administered ad-ministered to him. Pat. Douglas and his wife both got ! considerably under the influence of Illinois sod-corn, at Pukin, the other day, and were having a jolly time blacking each other's eyes and knocking out envh other's teeth, when a citizen of African descent, named Costley, canio alnnu', and took the woman's part, killing Pat. with a pistol-ball through his lungs. Costley was arrested. |