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Show KLIXGS. A tnr.-r di-.-bari:-d hy a uulo Imd ni) tuiiip. 'aiii:uiivLT i-!iiin- -It I , ihv yuims;-t-at of a family ul" iiiucit-vii clitldrcu, , who WtMshd pouii'l. Tht-y stop runaway liores in Roches-' tcr by openina thw swim; briJije and' lotting them drop into llie Kric canal, i "Mother Winslow," ol'Canion, Mo., aued luiyeara, is claimed as the oldest Methodist in the country, if not! the world. j It U aaid that McKoan Buchanan, j tho actor, excites the uio.-tl applause ,jut an ho ia leaving the t.wn where he has periurtned. A Delaware peach-grower, who luit week shipped ,10tl baskets of fruit to Sow York, cleared three nem- over t , freights and eommiion5. j I An old colored wouiau in All.auy i died Huddenly tho other d.iy from fright at the choking of a child in her; '.ehai'gc, who had swallowed u knohi from a tea-pot iid. ; ! The Common Council ot Osweo, I New York, recently obliged the atrent ! ofaconeeit troupe to furnish eighty ik-'jcls for its personal use bo lore ho could "get a liucuij to give nn entertain-meut entertain-meut in U-twcgo. t 1 The Plymouth (Kujtlanil) Kf.'iMrtA in a recent Usui, mentions that "the j prominent candidate for tho Pre-i. dency of the United States in 1ST2 are Horace Grant and L'lysso S. lirec I lay." Amofljr the lamp lighters in Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Wis., is a little pirl, ten ycnr-i old, who makes her rounds in all kinds of weather, and runs up tho ladder like a squirrel, while her elderly mother watcher for her safety LdIow ' kid repoitiid that suits tor daLun'H, lin consequence of injuries received by i tl10 oo":iaQ at Itnyere station, against : ;the Eastern Railroaa ?T Ji already been filed to tho amount of a hundred and fifty thousand dollair. ; Mr. Arthur Arnoud, the coojuiuuist, before making his escape to Switzerland, Switzer-land, acted lor a fortnight as drutrgisl's clerk at Batignollcs, and Fold medicine to officers of the eisnillcs army who would gladly-liave had him arreted. At a factory noar Swansea, England, a iiiccc of iron has been rolled out so thin that it, would take 4.S00 such . sheets to make the thickness of an insh. !Tho thinnest tissue paper to ho iur- i chased is four times as think. The lalcrtt novelty in tlie ehampioD-; ehampioD-; ship business is a balloon race at Syracuse Syra-cuse Tho Journal ia informed that : "Professor" Coc has accopted "Processor" "Pro-cessor" Stone's challenge, and that the ascension will take place this month. Methodist camp meeting grounds ; will, in t'mio, grow to be lariro villages 'or cities. There is one near Hamilton, I Mass., which has three hundred J cottages put up -already, at a cost of fifty thousand dollars, with four hun-jdred hun-jdred lots leased for move cottages ! Tho Mobile City Hospital has given j admission to an invalid who, shortly before his entrance, is said to have breakfasted on forty-two eggs and a i gallon of lagor beer, and dined on sis I pounds of beef, two loaves of broad, f with another gallon of lngcr t. wash 1 them down. A youug man in .New Hampshire i agreed with an acquaintance that if he Iwould eat sis quarts of boiled custard, ho would swim two miles in a pond. iTho challenged man disposed of tho ioustard, and tho next mominr tho ; other swam to the proscribed point, .and then turned round and swam back into the lake soiuo twenty rods, giving ; as a reason that his friend, on finishing ; tho pudding, licked tho spoon, and he ! wanted to do the square thing. |