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Show IXKLIXGS. Maine is to hare another colony of Swedes before the close of the year. The magnetic well in Chicago having betn thoroughly tested the citizens think they prefer whisky. "Grasshopper juice" is the name applied to benzine in the courts ot Columbus, Ohio. The United States fifty-cent pieces contain -five cents worth nioro cilver than the Canadian half-dollar. The three copper mines of Michigan Quincy, Hancock and National pro duced an aggregate of 1ST tons of metal during the month of September. Mrs. MeFarland soon intends publishing pub-lishing .oiue papers and magazine articles of A. I). Hichardson, which have not before been in print. Among the Mexicans, a title of address ad-dress is named jVoUazomahuityteopix-catalzin, jVoUazomahuityteopix-catalzin, and signifies my very revered father or my revered priest. Jonathan Coon, of Minnesota, having hav-ing a wife aud four small children, went off with Melissa Moycr, whose father is now off Coon hunting. Assistant Bishop Pinckncy, of Maryland, Mary-land, is sixty years old and his wife eighty, she having made the clothes in which he was christened as a child. An Indiana woman, who had been divoned for twenty years, met her old husband recently, fell in lore with him again, proposed marriage, and the couple are now once more one. Young girls with ideas clear up to the top of the scale, are requested to take notice that the most fashionable marriages now are those which are conducted with the greatest simplicity. At a charitable fair out west an enthusiastic en-thusiastic young lady, when the stock was exhausted, sold the gloves off her hands and the shoes oft her feet to help the cause. A duel is to be fought with harpoons on the Kentucky shore, -opposite Cairo, shortly, it is said. We don't see how either party can hopo to strike oil, unloss one turns to blubber. Two families, the occupants of frame houses, narrowly escaped destruction by land slide a few days Eincc, at Mount St. Vincent, on the southern bank of thePoestenkill, New York. One hundred hun-dred and fifty feet of earth was carried into the creek. Michael Edmonds, ?r., of Mounds-ville, Mounds-ville, Ya.,is now the oldest man in the United Stales. lie has attained his one hundred and fourth birthday, and has been a chewer aud smoker of tobacco to-bacco for ninety years, Ilis mother lived to the age of one hundred and three years. The Freemasons of Troy, N.Y.,liave organized an insurance company, with three classes of members, of ,miu each. A fee of has to fc paid on entering, and at the d&ith of a member each remaining member of his cla-s pays $1.10 into the treasury, $1 of which goes to the family of the deceased. No other fees or dues are required. |
