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Show : Cork helmets are worn l.v British ar tillerists in India. The only persona who really enjoj had health are the doctor?. The rising men of the period The 1 balloon travellers in France. A young man in Ohio recently opened open-ed a clothinsr store, and was sent to jail for it. Reason: The clothing store belonged to another man. During the past year nearly OOO.OoO young Cottonwood shade trees have Keen planted in tho thoroughfares of Denver City, Colorado. The Women's Rights advocates in Michigan intend to ask the Legislature this winter to pass a female suffrage constitutional amendment. Now and then they cut off the ears of a horse thief in Oregon, and then telegraph east that the crops were never better than they are this season. One of the census enumerators in Providence, R. I., put down in his list twins opposite the names of two children, chil-dren, and against the first lie designated designa-ted Providence as the birthplace. The officials in Washington sent the list back to have the deficiency accounted for. What they wanted to know was where the other twin was born. Ilamden, Conn., with a population of 3,00(1, has not less than 2,000 persons per-sons sick with the malarial fever, in one form or another, since the 1st of July last, or since the drought began. The epidemic was caused by decaying vegetable matter exposed to the action of the sun by the subsidence of the pond in that vicinity. The column of the Place Yendome. in Paris, is daily bombarded by indignant indig-nant patriots, who demand that tt should be razed to the ground, and the metal of its statue and its bas-reliefs melted down into cannon. The statute of Napoleon Na-poleon I., in the cocked hat and great coat, which u.cd to be on its summit, and which was removed a few years ago to a pedestal at the end of the Avenue Av-enue de la Grande Armee, has been concealed to preserve it from the iconoclasts. icon-oclasts. Gen. Trochu, in his work on the French army, states a fact not generally gener-ally known. On the evening preceding the battle of Austerlitz two divisions of the French army came accidentally into collision, and shot at each other, causing caus-ing painful losses and confusion, which ii.ii.i ua.t Uiii scnuus consequences if it had spread. Few understand on how slender a thread hung the crowning crown-ing victory of the first Napoleon. A new firm of envelope has recently become quite popular iu Germany, and possoes the convenience of enabling one to open a letter when rouipletelv sealed up. without the ordinary difficulty diffi-culty ol finding an entrance. The ar-rangemcnt ar-rangemcnt conM-ts in introducing a thread, which projects 'r,,T1, ne of the crniTs. by pulling which tho lower edge of the envelope is cut through without injury to the enclosure, the addre-s, or the .-tamp. |