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Show There is good sleighing now in Montreal. Mont-real. Sunflower oil is now being manufactured manufac-tured into a delicious perfume. Quails are so plenty in southern Indiana In-diana that two ooys from Madison killed 252 in one day last woek. There is a spectacle manufactory in New Haven that turns out 300,000 pairs a year. It is the most extensive establishment of the kind in the world. The maple sap is running in the vicinity vi-cinity of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The trees are budding, and the Indians are in the woods making sugar. The like was never known in November. A. Schmidt, of Sioux City, Iowa, has a horse that unties a bow-knot with his teeth, flings the loose end over his neck so that it will not be in his way, and goes home. They have church-going dogs in Bloomfield, Iod. The Democrat says a procession of about twenty marched up to the pulpit of the Methodist Church, last Sunday, during the service. ser-vice. " Blackhcath Hill, the famous quarter near Ljndon, has become a favorite resort of velocipedists, who ride down it at fearful speed. An old woman of 9S was run ovur and killed there, the other day. An Iowa school teacher struck a boy so severe a blow on the side of his head and face, some time ago, that it caused his death in about three weeks, and the physician so testified. The people of Darlington, Wis., experienced ex-perienced something, a few days ago, that everybody thought was the shock of an earthquake, until they heard next day that a powder-mill had exploded at Plattsville, twenty-one miles away. A flock of white swans, from fifty to one hundred in number, have been on the waters of Lake Mendota, Minn., recently, attracting much attention from hunters, who, out of respect for their beauty, have retrained from shoot ing them. There is a farm near Roseville, Parke county, Ind., upon which are situated eight hundred mineral springs within a circumference of one hundred feet, each of which, upon being cleared of pebbles, spouts water for several days to the height of ten feet. A colored woman in Cairo, 111., went out to gather an armtul of firewood, the other day, leaving a little fifteen-months-old child tied in a chair, and another, of three years, playing on the floor. When she returned, she found the older child dead on the floor, a charred mao,s, while the one in the chair was enveloped in flames, and died in a few hours. It is not known how the children got burned. |