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Show Niagara, Falls had I 17, WU visitors the pat season. Fort Hark or, Kansas, is to abandoned as a military post. Cream, in London, co.-ts ruoro than ' good sherry wine. Great Britain has two thousand buildiDg societies. The Ptnall-pox ha.s matriculated at Dickerson college. A scarcity of school-mams is reported report-ed in northern Vermont. To make hens lay Tie their legs together to-gether so they can't stand up. What did Lot do when his wife turned to salt '.' Got a freah one. j Florida is the only State in tho United Unit-ed States without a daily newspaper. Even as i'ar north as Halifax, in Nova Scotia, have mosquitoes made their appearance. Tho guillotine has been introduced into Peru and works to the satisfaction satis-faction of all parties. Acton, in Massachusetts, has bo-come bo-come the main seat of the lead pencil manufacture. Rafts upward of a mile long, from Minnesota, are on their winding way to New Orleans. Thero is a huc monkey in the Berlin acquarium that drinks tea, coffee cof-fee and beer ! Davy Crookett's marriago bond has been deposited in tho State library of Tennessee. What is the easiest way for a bad rider to show himself off ? To get on a spirited horse. Water-melons and 'oanteiopea are now sold in Louisville by the cart load. Cholera mixture is in demand. New Orleans has, by the estimate of the society of physicians, eighty six confirmed opium-caters. Quicksilver has been found near Austin, Texas, aDd the indications are that it exists in large quantities. 1 . A pocket boot jack has been invented. invent-ed. You put your foot into your pocket, give a spriDg into the air, and off comes your boot. Photography promises to do almoit as much lor man as the steam engine. It assists the painter and the sculptor, the astronomer and the naturalist. The Milo Venus in the Louvre museum mu-seum has, it is said, been entirely ro-vived ro-vived by a renovating process tried upon up-on it. Exchange. For revived read ruined. A sweet "girl graduate" of a Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts school recently told an examiner ex-aminer that "Esop was the author of the Latin fables, covered with hair, and sold his birthright for a mess of potash." Stonewall Jaokson's horse has been -chosen for the model of the bronze beast which is to support the burly figure of general Scott, in Brown's equestrian statue of the veteran hero, about to bo cast from Mexican cannon, and set up iu Washington. At a revival the minister saw one of the congregation asleep. Shocked at such a sight, the good man awoke him and asked him if he was a Christian. ''No," said the man, "I am an editor." "Then, in the name of God, let us prayl" replied the devorpd minister. A Yankee in Texas, who sat listening listen-ing to the stories of a Louisianian in regard to the marvelous growth of sugar cane on his plantation near New Orleans, finally said: "That ain't nothing. I've seen cane in old New England more' n a mile in length!" "What kind of cane was it?'1 was the general inquiry. "A hurricanel" answered an-swered the triumphant Yankee. |