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Show Hand luadf luce, of all ihe iLdn-tm1! of l'mnc, has uller-ii lext by tlu' war, bein;: cbietiy carrb'd uii by women. A MJiir'iL'le ludy uf luuluic years says ' that it does not look weli lor a young lawyer to put his arm around a girl at a uircu.i and comb her Iiair wiili his' licgers. CbicaifO Lt no longer the i;rain centre , of the West, but divides that honor ! with Milwaukee, Toledo and St. Louis. I The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee in ! are reported at about equal to the recipts of Chicago. "Old Joe" Gilbert, of Atlanta, Ga., has buried three wives, and is now Living with the fourth, who says she : will give him a stout tussle for the survivorship. "Old Joe" has dandled; thirty-seven children upon his knee, I thirty of whom still live and thrive I j under his fatherly eye. The recent hot weaiher tiud the1 absence of prolonged rains have reduced re-duced the Schuylkill to a very low stage, and Philadelphia is threatened .with another famine. Parties in j charge of carts used for sprinkling the stream have been notitied that for the I present they must cease operations. ' A schoolmaster in Bridgeport, Ct., : who asked a small pupil of what the surface of the earth consists, aud was promptly answered, "Land and water,'' varied ihe question slightly, that the ; fact luifc'ht be impressed on the buy's mind, and akeu, "What, ilion, do ;laud and watrr tnuke?" to which cninc the inuiU'diale nv-iioiw, ".Mud." ! A ruvcyatd bull was the novel evcul !of last week at Fur Kockawuy. It was i given by the parishioners of the little Itoman Oatholio Church of St. Mary Star ol' the Sea, for the purpose of raising funds to liquidate the debt still due lor thoir new coraetery. The idea of dancing for the bonetit ol' the dead, and of those that are to die, is a nov- elty which Far Rockaway can claim as i entirely original. i John Rogers, whose statuettes have i made him so iamous, is a nativo of 1 Massachusetts, lie was first a dry ! goods clerk in Boston, and afterward .a machinist. Seeing ahoy modeling figures in clay, he turned his thoughts to what has proved his vocation. lie has produced about lorty groups in all, and has sold some 00,000 copies of his ) I prorks. lt is said that his next undertaking under-taking will be Bret Harfe's "Heathen Chinee." The Indianapolis Sentinels correspondent corres-pondent doesn't like the way they do lit in England, lie writes: "When the llight Honorable the Earl Granville, Gran-ville, the representative of thcGovern- ment in the Lords, turns in his Beat 'and in a coarse, defiant tone, shouts ;in the face of the venerable Earl Rus-i Rus-i soil as he utters a sentiment Earl i Granville doos not relish, 'Yah, yah, ! yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, r!yah, yah,' (he said it thrice as many times, as rapidly as the voice could i utter). I say he has done a thing disgraceful dis-graceful and disgusting." ! A lettor from Cheyenne, Wyoming, says: "One of our leading suffragists, tho wife of a prominent oitizen, and a ! most respectable and accomplished ilady, created something of a sensation ' last week by promenading about town ; in company with tho Mayor, the lady smoking meantime a fragrant Havana. It is understood that this eccentric foat was performed on a wager. There 1 was nothing especially wrong about it, but some of the elders stood aghast with horror, and contemplative husbands hus-bands wore heard to murmur in pathetic pa-thetic tones, 'What next?' " i 1 " |