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Show Prull'-or Aassiz remarks that the , rates of largest brain are iisli cater?. A new,-.paper advertisement calls for . a plain cook, able lo dre.-s a little boy five years old. ! The La Cross.' (Wi.con.--iu) hotels 1 are running opposition, and a dinner can be got there for seven cetu. Louisville, Ky., .-old durioj; the past 1 year 4i,r,0ti liolicads of tobacco, of the total value of $4-, (131,040, 3S. i The forty or fifty Chinamen em- i ployed at Belleville, New Jersey, have ' contributed $100 to the Chicago relief j fund. j There arc nuw more than fifteen j hundred miles of railroads in operation i in Kansns and as many more are projected. pro-jected. The rhiladdphu board of public education have opened sixteen night , schools for young men over the age of ' sixteen. The Boston iW saya many young ladies are accused of wearing their engagement en-gagement rings in their pockets except ' when "he" h around. Temperance is to he the fashion this i winter, and wines arc interdicted at I large entertainment, the substitutes j being coffee and lemonade. i A young lady who was in Paris during dur-ing the first siege, gives her judgment that mulo meat is nice, horse tiesh good, and cats really excellent. ; The experiment of using naptha for j fuel in running a locomotive is s;tid to j have been tried in Kussia, with a sav-' ing of fifty per cent, in both cost and ! weight. 1 On and niter November lsl, every ton of anthracite coal sold in Philadelphia Philadel-phia must contain 2,240 pounds, and fractions of a ton must contain corresponding corre-sponding fractions of 2,240 pounds. The sales of the Burlington & Missouri Mis-souri Itiver railroad lands in Nebraska during the month of October, 1871, j were 12.5ST 40-100 acres, atan average j price of $7,51 9-10 per acre, amount-i , ing to $(.I4,7;;9,2:;. j A day or two ago some one overturned over-turned a chair in judge Barnard'scourt in New York, when his honor remarked, re-marked, "Be careful and not break j that piece of furniture, as it lias al-j al-j ready cost the city $400,000 lo repair it." set oi paper car wuecis, on one or the Pullman cars running to Jersoy City, have run over 100,000 miles of track, and worn out entirely one set of steel tires, which have been replaced. The ordinary wheels, it is .said, will only run 00,000 miles. A Miss Brie!, of Richmond, Virginia, Virgin-ia, who was in Europe during the late Franco-Prussian war, received recently, from the Emperor William of Germany, Ger-many, a splendid cross of honor, in recognition of the services rendered by , her to the sick and wounded soldiers. ; A Ohicagoan was in a barber's shop in New York city, and, after being shaved, the barber suggested that perhaps per-haps he would like f.o have his hair cut. "Thank you," said the man from Chicago, "it is long, but I never, have ' my hair cut when I am in the conn- i try." The Los Angeles JSlar has a poetical poeti-cal contributor who sings in this wise: O for the wings of a horsefly ilect To whiz away on the hazy air To where my true lovo takes her seat, At the foot of the kitchon stair. Thoro I would buz?, about her head Of curly blonde bright hair, And perhaps 1 would bite her nose so red As she sits on the kitchen stair. And if she, the darling, gentle dove, (Should ami to me then and there, My dying sting should be one of love To her on tho kitchen stair. |