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Show , GadiDg, uf'great-Kun notoriety, is an Indiana man. Forty students at Cornell University are studying "heathen Chinee." Judge Wright, of Iowa, is seventy yearo of age and hasn't seen a locomotive locomo-tive in twenty-four years. Nor is he blind. ' An enterprising small dog entangled himself in a St. Raul lady's habiliments habili-ments and speedily reduced her to a skeleton. A Minnesota sheriff ha; arrested and lodged in jail his young son, the youth having fatally fractured the skull of a prominent citizen. A nice young man in Chicago is in the habit f getting "excited" and planking himself in front of a Baptist church, where he horrU fir somebody to take him home. Ren. Wisewulls, an Englishman, was stabbed and killed by his wife's brother, broth-er, i Doran, an Irishman, in a drunken drunk-en quarrel in Boston, on Sunday night. :. "Nailing a foolish lie" is what the ew Tork Tribune now entitles a correction. cor-rection. This is better than "falsely, wilfully, maliciously," etc., and is dou' tlcss owing to the absence of Mr. Greeley. .. . 1 The New York police have posted the following on a piece of furniture obstructing a thoroughfare : "Notice If this stand dont be taken away in 24 Hours, It will be removed to the Copperation Yard." The order of '.he principal cities of Illinois in population is as follows: First, Chicago; second, Quincy; third, Peoria; fourth, Springfield; fifth, Bloomington; sixth, Jacksonville. The publication in the Boston and Cambridge newspapers of the names of ruffianly students who are brought before tho police courts has had more effect in preventing lawlessness than anything else. S 1 A Roman Catholic Silesian farmer, discussing war matters with one of his neighbors, said : "The Prussians have got the be.-t of it in Sch!ewig-llolstein Sch!ewig-llolstein and in Austria; but they will never conquer the French until God Almighty himself turns Protestant." ; The Princc.-s Loui.-a, who is about to depart from the time-honored custom cus-tom of the British realm by marrying one of her mother's subjects, is -2 years of age. and her dc.-tincd husband, hus-band, the Martinis of Lurne, is 2,",. The young man is a member of Parliament, Par-liament, representing the county of Argyll, and is heir to one of the oIJo.it peerages in the I'niied Kingdom, as well as to a name of historic renown. His father, the Duke of Argyll, a man of high per.-onal rliaicter and .-chol.tr-ship. i- the mo-t di-tingtii.-brd of the handful of J.ii"-ra!.- in the. fb.ti.-u of Fords, and, dm it.'L- the war of sion, was tint, , :,r J,;. M.-.tdy friendship friend-ship for the North. The Iuclic.-s i- a daughter of the I Hike of Sutherland, and M of the Robe, of Qucu ic'.oria. |