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Show IMvLlAGS. Board in Japan can be had for two cents a day, and skilled labor for eight cents a day. .New York dealers receive a million quarts of milk a day, which they expand ex-pand to a million and a half. Spurgeon thinks some ministers would make good martyrs they are so dry they would burn well. An AJabamian, out of shot, used a box of pills to shoot a chicken with. He complained of the flavor. In Detroit, very weak specimens of the fashionable young men have taken to wearing car-rings. A daughter of James Hallahan committed com-mitted suicide in Des Moines on Tuesday, Tues-day, by pouring kerosene on a lighted tire. "Can you tell me what a smile is?" asked a gentleman of a little girl. 'Tos, sir," replied she; "it's the whisper whis-per of laugh." Miss Todd, of Chicago, who advertises adver-tises her height as four feet, desires a husband as near six feet in length as possible. In Milwaukee, ou Thursday night week, twin infants froze to death in their crib in the same room in which their parents slept. : I Life, according to an Arabic proverb, is composed of two parts : that which is past a dream and that which is to come a wish. A petition to the Detroit city government govern-ment ends: "And your petitioner will ever pray if praying will do any good.': A doctor was asked to dance the "Lancers." He declined, but expressed ex-pressed a willingness to lance the dancers. Seedling oysters from the east grow to a wondrous size and obesity in San Francisco Bay, though the natives are small and inferior. The ladies of Newport and Saratoga are outdone by tho wilb of Mahomet Ali, who required 500 camels to transport trans-port her baggage when she went a visiting. There is much food for reflection in the following questions and answers : "Who hits a woman when she is down?" "Why, another woman." "Who keeps her down ?" "Why, another an-other woman." A jury at Terre Haute brought in a verdict that the deceased died "by the visitation of God in the usual way." The "usual way" was a delicate hint at kerosene, as deceased had a lire that wouldn't go alone, so he poured on a little. At a meeting of tho AcaJomy ol Sciences in San Francisco, Prolcosor Davidson btated that Mount llaiuier, in Washington Territory, is in latitude lati-tude 4ij decrees, 4.) minutes, seconds. The clevatiuu has been definitely ascertained ascer-tained to be 11,111 feet, making it a little higher than Shasta, and continued continu-ed the speaker's previous imprec-iou that it is the highest peak ou the coast |