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Show LKLI'GS. Topcka has ArizAa diamonds. Walt Whitman has gone to sea. Vienna is to have a now opera-house. Leavenworth has two female puUo-fcclers. puUo-fcclers. Thief-shooting is good in some parts of Iowa. Kansas is rushing tho buffalo robo business. Powers is to have a monument at Glasgow. A western collcgo offers a prize for good manners. Watermelons aro eight for a dime at CoviDgtoD, Ga. The curbstones aro too hot to stand upon in Memphis. The Texas coast produces tho finest oysters in the world. Nebraska is negotiating for 40,000 Russian immigrants. Tho wild plum crop is immense in the Missouri valley. Chicago ministers uso tho late wheat corner to preach about. Five hundred bushels to the aero is au onion crop in Minnesota. A Fort Soott man has invented a new peach. It ripens in July. John W. Forney is writing long letters let-ters to his Press from California. Forty children have been buried in Ottawa, Ills., the last two wcoka. Twenty miles of llio Lawrence and Topeka railroad have been graded. Tho low price of oorn recently drove a man ornzy in Brown county, Mo. Tho St. Louis board of health is having a hard lusslo with small-pox. An Illinois man is trying eight acres of cultivated suollowers for the seed. A Jewish tomplo thai has cost $00,-000 $00,-000 is nearly completed in Milwaukee. Handsome fountains have been erected in the oapitol grounds at Washington. Wash-ington. Preparations are being made at West Point for tho cadets' ball on the 2Sth instant. Marie Stoppelier is a child pianist at Toledo, for whom a great musical 1 career is predicted. Sixty-three saloons and forty-iwolaw-yers give a tone to Leavenworth stom-' stom-' aohs and morals. The last rattlesnake killed in Wilcox county, Ga., had "swallowed a goose as far as the wings." Sunnyside, tho homo of the lato Washington Irving, near Tarrytown, , attracts sightseers daily. I Washington's headquarters is one of the sights of Newburgh. It is a sadly demolished old building, but the view from it is magnificent. Idlewild, once the home of N. P. Willis, is as romantic and attractive as ever, and is visited daily. The Glen is the most fascinating of retreats. "Mrs. Partington" was dead and is alive again. B. P. Sbillabcr is going to bring out tho result of her sewing in "Partingtoninn Patchwork." An infuriated Texan steer suddenly asked for a drink at a Cincinnati lar. The bar-tender went into a beer barrel and had to be drawn out by a corkscrew. cork-screw. The chceful horse-fly is said to gaily perambulato tho spinal column of Tennessee Ten-nessee horses, and the vocalistio mosquitoes mos-quitoes hover about aod frighten the lusty fowls, who mistake them for chicken-hawks. |