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Show IMvLTPfGS. The loss of Prussia in the present par is estimated to be about 300,000 men. The advertising receipts of the London Lon-don Tows have sometimes reached 5125,000 in a single month. Nine Japanese officers have been sent to France by the Jlikado to pain in insight into military affairs. The present war in France has added considerable to the number of lunatics in the asylums of that country. ' : Commissioners recently appointed will begin taking the census of the Dominion of Canada on the 3rd day of April. Round dances are said to be going out of favor in England, the more dignified dig-nified pipiare dances resuming their sway. The combined capital of the Rothschilds' Roths-childs' banking houses in London, Paris, Frankfort and Vienna, is SSOO,-000,000. SSOO,-000,000. It is noted as a remarkable fact that "Guatemala is in the full enjoyment of peace," and that in Salvadur "quiet has been restored." The committee of the Illinois Legislature Legis-lature have struck because the State will not give them all the stationery they want, free of cost. Emperor William will not al'cw spoon-stealing among his officers. One of them is to be overhauled for taking some spoons from a hotel table at Etampes. The Young Women's Christian Association As-sociation of Cleveland, Ohio, keep a ii.-t and descriptive catalogue of young men whj are known to visit disreputable disreputa-ble places. When the recent armistice was concluded con-cluded in France, the German troops occupied and controlled thirty-two of the eighty-six French departments, comprising 15,000 communes. A recent English writer states that, of the workers in the South Afiican diamond fields, about five in a hundred make a good deal of money; five more in a huiidred make their expenses, while the remaining ninety do not. The philosophers have decided that the earth is cooling off, and will eventually event-ually be so cold that the human rac'i cannot live on it. it is cooling off at the rate of fifteen degrees in 9 000,-000 000,-000 years, fellows that haven't ordered thick overcoats had better be getting around. James Rutledge, who was born in Maine, and now lives in Illinois, is lol years and 10 months old. His fither lived to the ace of V) years ar.d 11 month", and 1 1 is grrindlather to the a.-e of 110 years. He had fourteen Krotbcrs and four sisters, and has outlived out-lived ihe'ii all. With tears in her eyc-i a lit'le girl f five summers aked : " ill dear little broihiT Johnny die to-niht. mother?" And when she was .-.v-ured tliat the d ctor thought not, she c m-tinU'd, m-tinU'd, wh;lc s "'"f clfkcd her utti-r-anee-. "l'oor .Johnny ! I wi-h lie would, 'eau-e then I four! havt-his havt-his little white handled knife and fork." |