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Show IXKL1NGS. Illinois uses 1,(S0 loq school houses. Nashville lias commenced a war on the dogs, and they are all to be cither taxed or slaughtered. The Iowa Democratic Slate Convention Conven-tion is called to meet at Des Moines, on Wednesday, June 14th. A citizen of Georgia writes that he "has applied for a Vostmastership," and shall "press it with vigger." A few days since, three bears were found in the hollow of one tree in the upper end of Hawkins county, Tenn. East Tennessee has never trembled beneath the tread of the Kulilux, and wants all the world, especially those seeking new homes, to know it. The good and b-id people of Ontario are alike exercised over the conduct of an American speculator, who employs liUU men in fishing for trout in that province. A Wisconsin man who was bitten by a small dog three weeks ago, became apprehensive of death by hydrophobia, and, to. avert that catastrophe, committed com-mitted suicide. The Rhode Island Senate, after con- decisive vote, a propjsition to amend he constitution so that naturalized citizens can vote without owning real estate. The navigable portion of the Missouri Mis-souri river amounts, in all, to 1.150 miles. The chaonel varies from 300 to 500 yards, except at low water, when it is from 000 to "00 feet. The river and tributaries drain 518,000 square miles. la .Rhode Island are more than 10,-000 10,-000 childien under 15 years of age, who attend no school, mot of whom can neither read nor write, and more than 10 Oi'O persons over 15 years of ate, who can neither read nor write. Portugal having abolished the discriminating dis-criminating duties on merchandise carried car-ried in American ships, Pre.-ident Grant has issued a proclamation discontinuing dis-continuing those imposed by this country coun-try on merchandise imported in Portugese Portu-gese ships. The skeleton of a nun with his skull crushed in, with a bottle of strychnine near it, was found a couple of days ago, on the beach near Merced, Cala-fornia, Cala-fornia, where a hat covered with bhod was found about a year ago. The police are endeavoring to clear up the mystery. It ha been c;ght years since the first of the Alajfini'i claims originated. A statist estimates that lu that time '.',477 large volumes of document-, speeches etc., on that subject have been got ufT. There hav'uur thus been plen'y of taik, now let the joint high eomujiion do a lnt!e work. A Mis-U-ippi -teambnat man ay.i the ptincial cait-e of the explosion of stcainLoil boi'ers is due to the hydrostatic hydro-static pre-Mire npplied to thoni by the Lniti-d Statis in-p'-ctor-i. 11,; maintains main-tains that by applying this tet and running up the pp'-i-up; from fifteen to twenty per c-Mit. more than a steamer steam-er is allowi-.l to carry, there i- a very strong tendency to '':tken the irnn. whirli may not .-how it-elf, perhaps, for hours or day after a v.eambo.it starts on h-r trip. |