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Show INKLINGS. Baltimore's last obituary concerns a colored lady aged 122, who was, of course, on intimate terms with Gen. Washington. Don't go lack on your newspapers. A subscriber to an Iowa paper recently re-cently stopped his paper, and the next week he was nearly kicked to death by a horse. A new brake has been adopted on one of the English railroads, in consequence conse-quence of the recent frequency of ruil-road ruil-road accidents, which is able to stop a train in five seconds. The patrons of husbandry in Missouri Mis-souri have a t.ide degree into which they initiate horse-thieves. After the ceremony nothing can be seen of the candidate, and the ground is nicely sodded over. The itemizers arc going wild about the Logan girls' hair. There are live of them Olive, Celia, Kliza, Kate, and Alido, and it is claimed that a hair taken from the head of each and laid end to end, would reach nearly eighteen eight-een feet. The people of lilinira never have kerosene explosions, and this is the reason why: When they go to buy kerosene they ask the dealer if he has the non-explosive kind, and if he says he has, they tell him to put for them a gallon of the other kind. Pioche was visited on Monday evening even-ing last with a slight fall of snow, but early on Tuesday morning it had all disappeared under the bright rays of the morning's sun. The weather is now as pleasant as any one could possibly pos-sibly wish to have it. Ely Eccord. The Ely Record of the 20th says : Ilugh White, former owner of the state line between Pioche aud Salt Lake City, arrived in town early'Wed-nesday early'Wed-nesday morning, having left Salt Lake on Sunday. He reports affairs at Salt Lake as being lively in regard to ni.n ing matters. For some time pat electricians have been trying to discover a way to send two messages at the same time along a single wire. It is said that the problem prob-lem has been solved by a Mr. C. Var-ley, Var-ley, who has devised a method by which four currents at once can be delivered by a single wire. The persons charged with murder and riot during the recent election at Baton Bouge were all discharged by the United States commissioner for want of iurisdiction. Those, charged with similar offenses at Donaldsonville: within the same Congressional district, were committed to prison, without bail, by another I'nited States commissioner. commis-sioner. A man iu a state of nudity, who was found climbing a lamp post in New York, made this explanation: "I am in love and was to have been married to-night; and just bi fore the hour appointed ap-pointed I saw my own, my lovely Jane, walking along the telegraph wires on Seventh avenue. I tried to follow her, but a big black devil would pu.-.h me down the pole faster than I could climb it." |