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Show Swias watches made in America are liable to seizure, A enow plow was u.scd in London last month for the first lime. Chinese boot-blsks tako tho shine off of native ones io Chicago. Tho Winchester, Virginia, revival has made five hundred converts. Bethel, Maine, expects soon to have 3U.W0 sugai-maple trees on tap. Colored men own property valued at over io Petersburg, Virginia. Pet bears in Oregon are becoming aoooniplLihed in the oealpiug business. Kansas city has wiotci-packcd 100-000 100-000 moro hoga than her gcd, up-river rival, St, Joe. Early peas and other vegetables havo Buffered badly from tho cold in Virginia. Two terriers killed a rat a minute each for an hour in a Baltimore stable, on Monday. Dubuque boys roll stones down its steep strocta fur tho fun of seeing people dodge. A rumor is prevalent that Brick Pomerov will soon rcvivo tho old La Crosse Democrat. Tho constitution of Texas has been so amended as to permit land grants in aid of railroads Green county, New York, has five feet of snow on tho level, and hhsn't heard anything about spring. "Two months' work and two bills" is what tho correspondent of tho St. Louis Globe sayB of the Illinois legislature legis-lature It is estimated that at least twelve hundred persons havo been vaccinated in lfon du Lao during tho past ton . days. Tho Boston Post thinks this will bo j a good year lor "obarttablo institution!1." institu-tion!1." This is a loud oall to tho oon- J grossmoD. Within six montba fifteen mon havo l been murdered in or near Whoolook, Arkansas, and not one of the murdor-ors murdor-ors has been punished. "The richest silver mtno in the world," according to local authortics, has been discovered in Tinker xdoul-tain, xdoul-tain, Boutctoust county, Virginia. Small-pox rcoontly broke out io tho Indianapolis jail. Its clfcot, as a prevention pre-vention of crimo, proved so salutary that a new case will bo introduced when tho prcscDt ouo wears out. Tbo inhabitants of Key West, Florida, Flori-da, deoline to pay salaries to clergymen, clergy-men, fearing that anything suggestive of funerals may injure tho reputation of the place as a resort for invalids. A New Orleans girl rt-CCDlly kissed a negro drayman in the street because ho had just saved her Ihtlo sister from the wheels of an upprouuhing oar. The fortunate darkey also received $100 from the girl's father. A report is circulated in Chicago that a lady was running a sewing ma-I ma-I ohino by mule power. On investigation a local reporter ascertained that the power was that of a person who had bocn married to the lady. Onions aro $16 a barrel in Now Orleans, and when a woman, whoso huBband refuses her a new dress, wants to indulge in a good cry, Ehe is compelled com-pelled (unless wealthy) to fall back on g common horse-radish. A small boy arrived at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, tho other day from Texas, having been sent all the way a la package, with a ticket sowed to his ooat. Tho conductors all took an interest in-terest in him, and he enjoyod the journey hugely. |