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Show IKL1GS. Tli'.-y art I'ommciiciufj to plant eaMorn oy.'ior.s in Oregon waters. Mr. Slakes of New Orleans challenges chal-lenges the world at pedestrianiniu. I'nlesa lie walks about seventy miles a day he doesn't led well. The North Carolina supreme court has decided that tor a lawver to call a wituesd ''Pennsylvania Yankee" is "gross abuse." A female postmaster in Virginia haa been arrested on a charge of swindling the department by using cancelled postage stamps. One Eliza Hudson was indicted and brought in guilty by the Northampton county (Pa.) court for being a "oom-won "oom-won scold." She was fined $102. A bronze automaton at Venice recently re-cently knocked out a curious traveler's : brains with a hammer. The traveler !eot his head between the hammer and j the bell just as tlie automaton .struck the hour. A learned Hindoo, who is lecturing in England, says the vice of intemperance intemper-ance was unknown in India till the English introduced it there, but the young men became apt pupils, and now it is causing wide-spread disaster. The New Jersey railroad during the last thirty-seven years has transported over seventy millions of passengers 'without loss of life or limb to anyone inside the cars. A metal bell, with the date USl.has recently been raised from the bottom of the small river Abbe, near Limerick, Ireland. It is supposed to have belonged be-longed to St. Mary's Cathedral and to have been thrown into the river during the siege of Limerick by Ginkell, in IGyl. i In the track of the severe hailstorm 1 that occurred in the region of Rockingham Rock-ingham county, Virginia, some weeks Ingo all the orchards in the track of the . hailstorm have come out in as full j bloom as tbey were in the spring. Not only the apples are in bloom, but the I locust trees in many piaoes are also in j bloom. A gentleman saw a tree with i several bushels of ripe apples on and I thousands of blossoms on the same tree. I A fish store at Somerville, Massa-' Massa-' chusetts, has a sign on which is .painted, "Leviticus, xi, 9th and 10th versee." These verses are: "These ! shall ye cat of all that are in the I waters; whatsoever hath tins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers, these shall ye eat. And all that havo not tins nor scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters,they shall be an abomination abom-ination unto you," A man was brought before an Illinos magistrate and fined $6.50 for being drunk. He smiled blandly, and drawing draw-ing out a dollar bill said, "All right, Mister Magistrate. I suppose you remember when I sold out my saloon in Pekin I had So. 50 on the slate against you. With this dollar that will exactly pay my fine. You must excuse me,'equire, for this little spree of mine; but I didn't see any other way of collecting col-lecting my bill against you than this." A widow lady in Iowa Palls was in litigation with relatives in regard to her husband's estate. Judgment had been rendered against her, execution issued, and the officer was on hand to make his levy. The lady, deeming that she had rights, defended her personal per-sonal property with a stout cudgel, claiming that it was not liable to execution. exe-cution. The officer, to pacify her, said, "Well, Mrs. , I will write to Judge and see what he says about it, if you will agree to abide by his decision." L(Wcll," says the widow, "you may write to Judge , or to the devil, or to any other justice of the peace you please, but I won't-give up the property." She retained it. |