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Show INKLIXJS. Which is the largest jewel in the world ? The Emerald Isle. The next National Democratic Convention Con-vention is to be held in St. Louis. The cost of produeincr salt at Salomon Salo-mon City, Kansas, is I'll cents per bushel. There is a whole sermon in the saying say-ing of the Persian : "In all quarrels leave open the door of reconciliation." We should never forget it. A petrified cork with the remains of a corkscrew three inches in leneth, was discovered near Manchester, Iowa, last week, in digging a well. A cathedral was begun in Colosrne in 1248, and is not yet completed. Workmen Work-men are engaged on it now. Some of the windows are four or five hundred years old. A Mobile man used a couple of old shells that he picked up at Fort Spanish Span-ish for hand-irons in his fire place. It was the opinion of the coroner that the family died from too much iron in the blood. The cold weather which has prevailed at the south this winter is something quite out of the usual order of things. An account reaches us from Fernan-dina, Fernan-dina, Florida, of a man being frozen to death near that place one night last monih, and of two others being badly frostbitten on the same occasion. The Paducah Keutwlian. says: "No man had such a terrible time as Elijah Hughes during the war. He was seven times captured, and each time made his escape by killing the guard; had seventeen horses shot under him, was wounded thirteen times, and had every bone in his body broken. Yet Elijah lives to carry cattle to Cairo, and sees more ghosts than any other living man." Mr. Stimson, the colored gentleman that was hung at Raleigh, X. C, for outraging a white lady, made a speech in which he said he would pass from the gallows to the full fellowship with the saints in heaven. Unless some one is fooling those niggers, it is going to be the cheapest way to get to heaven, heav-en, to outrage sjme one and get hung. E.c. A man named Southworth, of Warren, War-ren, Pennsylvania, has given birth to a frog that has been in his stomach for fifteen year?. The frog has been interviewed inter-viewed and expresses great surprise at ihe changes that have taken place in i hut part of Pennsylvania -ince he was on earth the first time. The cnutiriu'-d adulteration of the liquor which South-worth South-worth drank made the frog tick, and be came up to sec about it. French officers are quite ready to acknowledge ac-knowledge the weak points revealed by the war. A very gallant French ofli-iit, ofli-iit, decorated on the field of battle by lieu. Duercit for rallying his men during dur-ing a sortie, taking them e .fT the ground in good order when obliged to, and walking his horse leisurely after them while under tire, conle-ed to an Hnt'lishman in 1'arU that though he ranild not consider him-elf inlerior in "culture" to any l'ni"ian whatever, Prussian officers had obtained an accurate accur-ate knowledge of every roud and lane around Pans, whde iie had acquired remarkable proficiency in water-el,,r drawing. The same p frson heard a French officer under orders to lead a certain corps to St. I'eni-, a-k what roads led to the place. |