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Show LXKLD'GS. An Indiana cat is diligently suckling a Utter of pigs. The Presbyterian cunfesMon of faith and .ahortr Catechism are being translated trans-lated into the Siamese language. Tho Plymouth Rock (Mas.) says meadows and garden- are past all cure, and are literally burned up with the drought. Thirteen thousand deutists in this couniry have nine colleges, raven periodicals, peri-odicals, and earu tweuty-tour millions ' annually. The agent of a Pennsylvania marble worker persuaded a widow to buy a iftone or the grave of her dead hus-Ibitnd hus-Ibitnd by premising to marry her. i A!ab;.umns cUini that pig iron can ;bis made in that Slate iio per cent, j jclieiiper than in the mo.-t favored, tn-gionsof IVQii.-ylvaiiia. j Ab'int 850.000 t"n- of C'-al ar-i usod I annually in London in the uianufienire i of eight thoiiMind uii!ii'n cubic feet of I I gas at a oust uf some UUO.UUO. A man in A.nge!icj, N. Y-, owns a, !clf burn of a Devou.-uire cow, wh i.-e ho'jfi are solid and U't eleven. It has ;aLso fetlock joints, no dew ciaw.-. and a j talc like a luule. , A DutchfFS ennmy, N. V., man is' ; boasting over a lock of wool, fourteen i ; inches long, of only one year's growth, I which he has taken from one of his '. sbeep. 1 The doleful report at present coming I from the New York Tombs is that j more murderers are confined than at I any previous timo for the last two j generations. An English politician declares that the exocn.ses ot all kinds for State and national elections in the United States cost the people more than it does the 'British for the Queen and the royal family ! A census taker out West reports eight thousand colonels in his district. "There used to be more in that part of the country," he says, "but a large number of them have been raised to generals." One of the reporters of the New Orleans Republican, who has just fallen heir to $-10,000, has taken a month's vacation, and at its expiration will return to his duties not at all puflcd up. Spasmodic frenzy has succeeded emotional insanity as a defense lor murder in Cleveland, Ohio. It is urged in the case of the young man who murdered so many members of the family of the girl who had rejected him. A farmer in McLean county, 111., was accidentally killed a few days ago, and one day last week his neighbors, to the number of thirty-three, turned out with their teams and cultivated ninety ; acres of oom for his family. They propose to continue the work during the season. Georgia has had much rain this 'season. Since the opening of spring, rain has fallen at Columbus on thirty- eight days, and most of the- showers I have been very heavy and long-contin-ucd. Complaints also como from Louisiana of continuous, drenching ; rains, injurious to cane and cotton. |