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Show LKLi:VG.S. ) The Kins of Spain is nid to be j hard at work learning Spanish. In Detroit Mr. Joseph Coburn torn-mi torn-mi t tod suicide because hi3 wli'e wanted to vote. A colored man has boon elected Alderman Al-derman in an interior town in Indiana on the Democratic ticket. Two Ohio girls filled lighted kerosene kero-sene lamp" last week. It was the non-explosive non-explosive kind itiid both sleep in tlte valley. A Tennessuo paper wants a party to be "formed to fix the fabric of freedom on the firm foundation of the fathers." In Boston, last year, in o22 out of 3,4'J2 mariiuges that were celebrated, the brides acknowledged beiug older than the grooms. . j In England the fact is said to 1)0 j demonstrated that women will not j : confide in a female physician as much j as in a male doctor. 1 . The steam power employed in the I United States does the labor of 130,-000,000 130,-000,000 men; while that of Great Britain is equivalent to 400,000,000, j Since tho introduction of railroads in India the wealthy Hindoos go on j their religious pilgrimages by rail over ! ground which their fathers toiled over j on loot. j Fifty-sis students of the University of Michigan who "bolted" a recitation j to visi; a travclinc; menogcrio have I been suspended. This is paying dear for seeing the elephant. It is said that tho fences of the United States have cost more than all the craft that lloats on the waters, salt and fresh; more, indeed, than any other class of property except railroads. In Detroit a club of bachelors has i been formed, tlio caidinal principle of I which is that no lady shall be married I by any member unless she can bring $20,000 and a brick house. j The King of Sweden has been nearly . killed by dyeing his hair with a hair . restorer said to be made of vegetable j ingredients, but containing, as most of 1 these restorers do, powerful mineral ; poison. The bankruptcies of the Marquis of 1 Hastings and the Duko of Newcastle, England, are capped by that of Lord Uourtenay, son of the Earl of Devon, whose debts amount to tho handsome sum of upward of four millions of dollars. In an Ohio school celebration, the superintendent announced the title of a song as "Hiding the Elephant Home." When the audience found that it was "Write me a Letter from Home," he thought it prudent for him to disappear. The ties used on South American j railways have been transported almost entirely from California, as the hard jwood ties cut on the Andes cannot be :used without boring the spike-holes i with augers. The ties cost one dollar jeach landed al Callao. |