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Show Italy wants a penal colony. TarW averages ten fires a dav. ' Spinner is pretty nearly Bjtuu out. It it the emperor William's left foot now. The population of Russia is 81,500,-000 81,500,-000 souls. Plums io westerQ New York are $1 per barrel. There are 100,0U0 women in Paris Dauiud M aric. Wheat, cyrn and cotton in nirtheast Georgia are reported fine. A Penai'o!a lady has taught her parrot to hurrah for Greeley,- Mrs. 8urratt was hanired last week in all the 'lennesiUiJ papers. II -'' Fjirimis, Miss., spends about $1,500 per aucuru for muic. . - Thij iiftw ..rand op.Ta liou-o at Paris will bu the finest iu the world. Ti.iliimore is eon Adoring plans for the iujprovuuietit of ln-T harbor. An ex-priest la'ely m id a dubut at Paris iu tho part uf "Dou (jiuvaoui." The navy annually consuuies 200.000 pounds of pickles at a cost of $17,000. The p t-midniht street ears of wicked Ohtengo are crowded to suffocation. suffoca-tion. The Madism, Iud., j iil h is four murderer.-', three of whom are under 21 years. Schuyler Colfax onfine-i hts oratory strictly to picnic aud Oidfcllow celebrations. cele-brations. To be exact, the number of paupers in London on tho third week of August Aug-ust was 101,7-13. Horace ileck, of Jufftr-on county, Term., stuck a ruety nail in his foot and died of lockjaw. American steamboat excursions, orchestra or-chestra ujuio thrown in, Moat over the "blue Danube." The Emperor William of Germany has reoent.lv bought a two-pa'.e letter ot (ieorge Washington a. A progressive Chinaman has outraged out-raged the traditions of hts country by marrying a St. Liouia woman. It is estimated that the Erie canal can be made navigable lor steamboats at au expense of if 2, 000 per mile. A. EI. Stephens says Atlanta will soon be the first city souih of the Alle-ghanies Alle-ghanies iu wealth and population. New London, Conn., is eloquent over a steam drill that bores thirty inches into the solid granite in four minutes. An Ohio girl escaped calcination from death dealing kerosene lately by prompt immersion in a barrel of swill. A waiter in an Algiers restaurant has a pair of moustaches that he can tie behind the back of his bead in a bow knot. The Iowa girls (urn out in torchlight processions and fill the midnight air with shrill shrieks for their favorite candidates. In a certain locality of Houston county, Ga., it is said to be the custom to hand around dishes of quinine pills instead of fruit. Two of the panthers that have brrn disturbing the .'timbers of the Mobile police have been hunted out to Three Mile creek and killed. Mrs. Grant nks Fred manyques-tions manyques-tions about bis European visit, expects Nellie back in Ootober, and would like to go to Europe herself. The Cracow "Czir" says that thevoy-age thevoy-age of the grand duke Alexis has thus tar cost his fit her the handsome sum of half a million of dollars. There is one happy man in Indiana. His wife has talked herself into a tongue paralysis, and can only give him "fits"-with her eyes. The "Jewish Messenger" wants Stanley to hunt up the lost tribes of |