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Show IiKLliGS. Some bold fellow alludes to Mies Anthony An-thony as Susie. The prand duke of Nassau is said io be the richest ruaa in Europe. ; All the advertiacraents ask for plain ' cooks. The wives write theru. It costs a man fifty cents to cross the railroad bridge at Council Bluffs. One-seventh of Arkansas is 6aid to have beon recently sold for taxes. Japan has purchased 4400,000 worth of boots and shoes in this country this year. Of some 7SO.0OO shares of Erie common com-mon stock, but 100,000 shares are held in America. St Louis extends for fourteen miles along ihe Mississippi river, aod has an area of about fifty-two square mile3. A nliiirtp.r hits been eiantel hv (he Tonncsseo legislature for bridging or tunneling the Mississippi river at Memphis. Mem-phis. The claim of ex-president Johnson for refunding the income tax, deducted from his salary whilo President, amounts to $-1,694 09. A law of Pennsylvania makes the taking of money at the door of a theatre thea-tre on Sunday illegal, wherefor it is invariably in-variably taken at the window. The salary of the Canadian viceroy is 50,000 a year, with two or three rcnt-frco palatial residences, and the office is generally held for five years. A brace of ineligible youths of Knox-ville, Knox-ville, Tcnn,, have been presented witl gas bills by the two young women they had the temerity to "spark" and keep up lato o' nights for that purpose. "I cqn speak several different lan guages," said a convict, as ho entered tho penitentiary. L'No matter," said tho keoper, "wo have only one lan guage here, and very little of that." Co'. W. J3. Brown, a wealthy stock raiser, near Kansas city, Mo., was as sassinated in his own yard, Thursda; evening ; it is supposed by a youDj man whose sistor Brown is alleged l have seduced. The police of Japan are very vigilant If you have anything stolen they pui suo the thief, and if the property i found on him they chop off his head a your door-step. For a small considera tion you are allowed to do your ow killing. A female book agent recently callei the governor of Rhode Island from hi placo in the senate, during an import ant debate, to solicit his subscriptio for a book sho was selling. The intei view is said to have terminated at ruptly. The American acclimatizing societ have just received and setfreealarg number of tho English robin rec breasts, with the intention ofintrodur. ing this bird in New York, familiarl known in Europe, but which is en tire 1 distinct from our American robin. Olive Logan commenced one of h( lectures at Newark, recently, with tb remark, "Whoncvcrl see a pretty gir I want to clasp her in my arms, " ' 'S do we," shouted the boys in the ga . lery. For a moment Olive was noi plussed, but, recovering her self-po: session, she replied, '"Well, boys, don't blame you." |
