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Show - " - ! INKLINGS. j Sunday parties in search of mud ( turtles are popular in Norwich, Conn., and geuerally epeakiiig quiet sueee.-ss-fuL A London pajwr Flalea that a narty lot-ten undertaiiers went to the Derby ' race upon a hearse drawn by lour black horsed. I Grape.-; are sold at a cent and a half 'a pound in the vineyards in California, land would pay handsomely at half the I price. j The McKmney (Texa.) hnquirer learns that 1 10 000 head of cattle have parsed through Forth Worth, Tarrant county, this spring, bound north. Id portions of Loui.-iana white laborers labor-ers are suid to bo cultivating cotton and sugar with no sickness beyond the I average among the negroes. ' A San Francisco editor thus addresses ad-dresses an Oakland brother: "You walfapus, you ichthyo-dornlite, you bogus hamiuo-chrysos, you, you Oak-lauder. Oak-lauder. Id a rash moment an Ohio farmer offered his children ten cents a quart for potato buns. He has his choice now to suspend payments or mortgage his farm. The intermarriage of two families in Maine is remarkable. Ono consisting of four sons and one daughter has married all of a neighbor's children, four daughters and a son. No plant yields anything like so much nutriment from the same extent of soil as tho banana. Baron Humboldt estimated that it returns twenty times as much as the potato, and one hundred hun-dred and thirteen times as much as wheat. It costs more to insure the life of an editor in Memphis than that of any other person; people down that way have such an unpleasant way of avenging aveng-ing editorial oomments of a personal character. Thfl bestowal of a peerage upon Miss Burdett Coutts gives occasion for the revival of the often -repeated but wholly apooryphal story tbat che once rejeoted an ofler of marriage from the late Duke of Wellington. There are in the United States one hundred and fifty-three monasteries, or religious bouses for men leading the monastio life of the Roman Catholic Church, and three hundred and thirty-i six convents, or cloisters, for women. At Saginaw, Mich. , two girls made a wager that they could take live grains of morphine, Tbey both won the bet, i and are now sleeping where the daisies I blow. Their father said he never knew a year when girls died off so sudden. The recent Kookie raids in India are thus lucidly explained : "A daughter of the Kookie Chief having d;ed, a number of men's heads were wanted to1 burn with her body, and his subjects1 loyally proceeded across our frontier to collect the requisite material." |