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Show Fisnz Abt, tbo German Curuposcr, ! will urrivu at Cincinnati on Monday. , A Cedar Hapids tditor fvif? t lie ccnus tot i-iiilitaL-it'S 17,r:;0 t wu-UlCD. wu-UlCD. The chint-h l.ui is marvins h:ivic in the wheat Hold-, of Mrue parts ot Iowa. Niagara river, from lake Erie to Lake Ontario, is gorged with ice moving mov-ing with the stream. The bankruptcy proceedings ayam?t the Mew York Bowling Green Savings bauk have been abandoned. j (( A writer on school discipline fays : ! "Without a liberal ue of the rud, it is impossible to make a boy smart." Betrothal parties are all the excitement excite-ment in Newl'orli and are so delight ful. 0m; young lady has Lad live. A Mis.-ourt murderer, sentenced to be handed, offers to .shoot Geo. Francis Train it' the governor wiil pardon him. Richard I., who died in 1190, was not known to have uttered an Knglifh word. Edward L, who died iu 1307; -poke Knt;ii.-di but onee. The President has made arrangements arrange-ments lor a treaty with the chief of Tituila, one of the Navigators Islands, for a naval statiou and a coal depot. A young man generally gives a lock of his hair to his sweetheart before ho marries her; after marriage hhe sometimes some-times helps herself, and don't use scissors. An elderly maiden lady, hearing lor the first time that matches were made in Heaven, declared that she didn't care a straw how soon she left this sinful world for a better land. The most gnllaut man ever heard of is one who refrained from kicking a dog that had bitten him because it was a female dog. "If it wasn't for your sex," said he, 'Td kick your head off." A young man who had come into nossessioD of a large fortune by the death of his brother, was asked how ! he was getting along. "Oh," said he, I am having a dreadful time. What iiu gciuug out ieners ot administration administra-tion and attending a probate court and settling claims, 1 sometimes wish he hadn't died." A- western editor in teiliDg about a Mr. Johoson'a running after a stolen horse and buggy, says that the timothy that hankered to sprout under his No. lis would haveTequired a special contract con-tract with nature, Tho pebbles in his path wero torn violently from their little lit-tle beds, and communed with tho back of his head in the most sociable manner man-ner imaginable. gThis is how a Jamestown, Pa., farmer farm-er was struck by lightning : A dealer m lightning-rods persuaded him to allow al-low the rods to be put upon his building, build-ing, just as an advertisement. Asa formality the confiding farmer was in duced to give his note, as be supposed lor $4, the dealer stating that the rods might be taken down any day Exit dealer, when it turns out that the note was really for 8136. A gentleman fresh from the plains wishing to show what he had learned of lndiancraft, at Bloomington, Ills the other day, took a largo butcher knife in one hand and the hair of a bystander in the other, and made a dexterous flourish as he supposnd with the back of the knife, but as it proved V m, ge' and a very keon one at that. Iher-iJ was lively work for the doctor for a while, and there is a taint of brimstone in the air of that vicinity to this day. , A respectable young lady of Pitts- rmrcVi lino Knar, A; i , , Durgn, nas been discovered to be a purloiner of books Irom two first-class establishments in tho smoky city and afterwards selling them to a dealer in second-hand literary ware. At the store of this gentleman nearly two hundred hun-dred volumes, of all styles and subjects irom Christ's Cadets" to the "Origin "Or-igin of Species" were found, the purloining pur-loining of many years. The lady's rather paid lor the stolen property, and no criminal complaint was entered. |