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Show j IKX1GS. A KOtiiuu in Cincinnati luia uijtuiutd Uoense tu pcribrm tin' iiiarria-ie i-ere ; niooy. A citizen of Mx'-aliu.-i.-ti.-:. while iu !a drunken frenzy, dug up his entire ! crop of tobacco. j , la Wioa.-iu ii L- u-jniLt.d thut iiuiie !a uiauy women us meu are jiuuorin in the haivest tielu.-. t In some portions of the South attempts at-tempts are being made to revive knee breeches and shoe buckle?. The "Abyssiiiiun stretch" ' has ,-u-Iperbeded the Grecian bend and the ' kaoaroo droop anion? the b-llea of I fashion. It is supposed that this will have a short run, a1; the "Madasra.-car flutter" and the " Feeieca n sprawl" are waiting to l sdojited. An India paper ays : "Circumstances "Circumstan-ces are beginning to shape themselves; the logic of events is hanging link upon link ; the destiny which shapes our ends' is iu anil i-s ting itself, and soon an intelligent awakening of the people, j will be ielt all over this country." An infant actor named John Mauley j has made his appearance at the Lon- don Olympic, playing Torn Tug iu ("The Waterman," ami Prince Arthur 'in a scene from "King John." The j exhibition, in the opinion of the Athe 7(ccmi, was not much more painful ! than such performances usually are. j According to the Turf, I'ield and I'urm, there are over eleven million ihorses in the United States. Illinois containsthe largest number, l,34tj,ii20, and Ohio comes next. New York has 7U3,li!0, and Mauds fifth on the list, being exceeded by LUinoU, Ohio, I'cnn-sylvania I'cnn-sylvania and Indiana. Khode Island contains the smallest number, liw. i Four young Scotchmen living in j Kansas City, Mo., advertise in the Edinburgh SoAsDurn that tliey "tindj it difficult lo conform to the usages of I American society," and, in order to ("revive the good old associations of 'former days" long fn correspond with 1 "a limited number of bonnio liwes of I culture and refinement in their native ; land. ' ' Tire dincovery ufan ancient outlet to , Lake Superior if mentioned by professor profes-sor Winchell, the Director of the State Geological Survey of Michigan, in his last report. It is a deep valley, bordered bor-dered with high blurt's, and runs from Lnke Superior to Green Bay. iu Lake Michigan, suggesting the practicability of a ship canal along tho same route, 1 with a view to shortening the voyage between the porta of the two lakes. "I know what your beau's pretty iwhite horse's name is," said a little l; boy to his grown up sinter, the other morning; "it's Daniye." "Hush, Ed-j Ed-j die," said the horrified sister, "that's a naughty word." "Well, I don't icare if it is," said the juvenile, "that's j his name, 'cot; last night .1 was outside (the fence when he stopped at tho front: gate, and I heard him any, 'Whoa, i Damye!' " " There is a young man in Contra i Costa county, California, who may be regarded as the champion squirrel-killer. squirrel-killer. Ho ia said to have killed no less than ten thousand in a singlo season. sea-son. He gathers his squirrel crop as a matter of business. Ho sells tho skins I of tho squirrels at fiftoen ceuts each to the agents of foreign kid-glove manu-! manu-! facturers, and the county pays him a : bounty of ten coats a head for every : j squirrel killed. j |