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Show INKLINGS. In the CVmuecaeui valley now the irupio crop is siiti to be tobacco. A Pouawr.fsinic ohiiil' died at Tope-k. Tope-k. Kaasax. Inst week, who weighed 4'.Jo pounds. A farmer iu Dtiburjut; county, Iowa, harvested Lis erop of barley ninety iayt. ail. r date of sowing. It L eumemplated to employ eooliea iu coiwtraotinjr a new laiiway to run ut of Lowell, Mass. The Worcester, Ma.-?."., Spy was 100 years old on the loth irist., having been farted July loth, 1770. The Spaniards have adopted lager beer, but mix it with lemonade in a puneh-hoTrl, and -uek it through a traw. A correfcpoiideut says that it is the eonvot thinj.' in Pittsburgh to roll up your vrow:r-. All the millionaires do so. The latest pha.se of our American aristocracy h tw objection made by the elite to being recorded in the same census cen-sus book with their servant. A raau in Vcrtaont has succeeded in Hiakuig a folding globe. It is hollow, and can bo shut up and carried in a ma!! space. .Much ingenuity is dii played in the construction. A French novel recently Lued for sumuier reading seems to answer its purpose very well, as it is said to be of uoh a diabolical character as to make one's blood run cold and shivers to run Hp the back. In demolishing an old Episcopal Church in Newton, Conn, , last week, a petrified cat was found under the floor near the pulpit. The teeth, claws, ear?-, legs, tail, and iu faet the whole animal was perfect. The cat has probably pro-bably been dead a hundred years. On opening a box car of a train for Boston, last week, at Windsor, Vt.t it wis found that of 125 lambs confined therein, aud on the way to market only four were alive. One hundred and twenty -one lamb, crowded into a tight car in a hot day, had been cruelly tanethered to death. An interesting relie wus recently found near Cincinnati. The object is the image of a ram three and a half inches long, carred in reecish variega-ted variega-ted marble. The earring is tolerably well done, though there are some minor differences between the inwe and the rams of the present day. No marble of the kind in which the image is arved it known to exist in the part of tie country where it was found. The . image is a relic of that mysterious people peo-ple who inhabited the country ages ago, traces of whose work are found neat tered all over the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi and their tributaries. |