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Show During all last summer, Nebraska had but one thunder-storm. All that Boston wants to make her happy this winter is a circus. Chicago has 339 miles of sidewalk, lighted at night by 5,3S8 lamps. A piece of calico a mile long has been made at a New England mill. The brewers of New York are about to form a "Vat Men's Association," A Maryland paper notices that kerosene ker-osene is a very popular hair nil in that seotion. A crawfish two feet long and covered cover-ed all over with moss, has been caught in Texas. The famous clock in the Strasburg Cathedral escaped injury during the bombardment. In Mississippi, sixty-one out of every one hundred of the population can neither read nor write. A Baltimore jury has awarded a husband $275 damages against an individual in-dividual who kissed his wife's hand. Miss Rhoda Neatherly is the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for Superintendent of Schools in Delaware county, Iowa. Kansas City, Missouri, has increased in population from 5000 in 1S65 to 32,295 in 1870. Kansas City is now said to be the second city in population popula-tion in Missouri. It is generally supposed that young ladies are fond of "soft soap,"-but a young lady at the New Harmony, Ind., Fair mistook a fine specimen of that article for blanc mange, and put a spoonful into her mouth. A fashionable belle was frightened almost out of her wits on discovering, snugly ensconsed in.her chignon, an innocent in-nocent little mouse, that had crawled into and made a bed of that feminine adornment while its owner slent. Mor al : Every lady should keep a cat in her chignon. The ladies of Jersey City have formed form-ed an association with the view of securing se-curing "the dissemination among women wo-men of a better knowledge of the human hu-man system and the laws of life." It proposes to secure "a hardier motherhood mother-hood and less feebly developed posterity poster-ity than is now the heritage of the American race." The prayer which Socrates taught Aicibiades deserves a place in the devotions de-votions of every Christian : That he should beseech the Supreme God to give him what was good for hinj.though be should not ask it ; and to withhold from him whatever would be hurtful, though he should be so foolish as to pray for it. A man in Erie, 1'enn., went to sleep in a coal shed, and was awakened by having ten tons of coal dumped over him. He was protected from being crushed to death by a huge chunk of coal that had wedired un the mouth of the pocket in which lie la-. J I is cries for help were heard by the workmen, work-men, the coal removed, and he released from his unpleasant position. The only damage done was a bruised shoulder. |