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Show 1 IAKL1IVGS. ! The town of Wickerville, Ala., is announced for sale at the rule ol per acre. A Louisville parent who didn't spare the rod nearly spoiled the child by throwing him out of the window afterwards. No people under heaven can excel the Americans in the manly art ol sitting on a bench and seeing eighteen men play at base hall. ; An Oshkosh preacher sat down on a hornet's nest which some boys had secreted under the pulpit cushion. He got up again. A tract of 5U,UU0 acres ol' land has been obtained on the Canada side ol the St. Lawrence,' above Quebec, for a colony of Alsatians. "Name the longest day in the year," said a Nashau teacher to a young hopeful of live summers. "Sunday, replied the little woman. A fiuflalo paper chronicles as an "unfortunate occurrence" the drinking of corrosive sublimate by a man who mistook it for brandy. In the Iloosac tunnel, 10,000 feet out of 25,000 are iiuished. The advance ad-vance in July and August waa nearly 1,000 feet, the larger part in August. The American institution of street I railways has extended itself to the island of Java. A line has just been opened for public use in the lown ol Hat avia. John C. Hreekeuridge is said to bo one of the h aid estr work ing lawyers in Kentucky at this time and is making a good deal of money from his profes-, profes-, sion. lie seldom now discusses politics. poli-tics. The princess Louise is making herself her-self popular at her highland home in Scotland. At a tenantry ball recently she was the partner of a farmer and went "down the middle" between a hundred couple, in a contra-dance. The tobacco crop in Connecticut, now about fathered, is enormoiiH. Few if any preceding years have produced crops to surpass it in weight of leaf, and all appearances iadicate that the quality will also he superior. The Canadian dominion authorities have just concluded an Indian treaty, which extinguishes the Indian title over a fine tract of country nearly three times as large as Manitoba, and im-I im-I mediately west of that province. The yield of the Pennsylvania oil region during August, as compared with the production of July shows an average increase per day of over twenty barrels, or a total production for the ' month of 541, GOO barrels, against 5 j5,-101 j5,-101 barrels the preceding month. There is a man at Omaha who has tried to kill himself by hanging, drowning, and cutting his throat, and -failed in each case. The Courier-Journal Courier-Journal would like to bet him a trifle that an attempt to kindle a lire with non-explosive coal oil will do the business for him. The prohibitionists of Boston are much pleased that a small boy has been injured by the bursting of a keg of lager beer in that city. The occurrence occur-rence enables them to point to the physical as well as the moral evils produced pro-duced by this pretending innocuous beverage. The baggageman of a western-bound express train observed a very offensive odor arising from a trunk checked for Chicago. A detective waa called and the trunk broken open; but instead of finding a ghastly corpse, they found about live pounds of Limburger cheese. The rates of taxation in New England Eng-land are high. Most of tlie interior towns have very heavy war debts, and $18 per thousand is a very frequent rate of taxation, and above that is an even more surpriHing range, running from the to the thousand of Portland Port-land to the $U) and of many other places. A large hawk apparently in quest of chickens met with a singular fate in Jefferson co., Pa., a few days ago. It sailed around the barn of Mr. John CofTman, in Gaskill township, and finally ht on the point of one of the lightning rods, descending with such velocity as to force the sharp point entirely en-tirely through its body. While it was struggling to free itself a number of other hawks flew around it, evidently sympathizing and offering their services. |