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Show Twisted hemp cures felons. Kansas is becoming a wine State. Duluth has three hundred Poles. London bootblacks aro uniformed. John C. Fremont has grown quito gray. Tho Connecticut applo crop is very large. William Toll's chapel at Un is to be rebuilt. An art school is to bo established at Hartford. A two-legged goat perambulates Chattanooga, The Iviglifh press is gradually going over to Tiehborne. An international game of chess is progressing in l'aris. Queen Victoria has ordered seventy barrels of Michigan apples. They occasionally find dead Indians on their fruit trees in Wisconsin. Germany lost 1S3,U7S officers aud men in the lato war with France. Dr. Mary Walker is the most thorough pantaloonatic of the age. Tho Northwestern Sacngcrbund holds its next festival at Dubuque. It can not Ic saiJ of B lan ton that "Duooan bleeps well." lie doesn't. Flood and fire rain .storms and lightning, mark the present season in Englaud. An injured wife warns Iowa fair ones to bewaro of her husband, "Professor" C. J. Smith. I Tho Mcrrimac river has risen eighteen eigh-teen inches, overflow thousands of acres of meadow lands. Mr. Sothern, tho actor, has sailed from Liverpool to fill his fall engagements engage-ments in this country, Thero are 1,000 young ladies in t Nantucket and only 1U0 men. Which , arc tho most to bo pitied ? ; Joe Emmctt is pursuing his arduous ( studies of Gcrmnn charaotcrs in Berlin. Ilo absorbs a keg of character every day. The velocity of electric waves through j tho Atlantic cable has been ascertained to be from 7,000 to 8,000 miles per Bcoond. Tho Sandwich Islands legislature has in contemplation the appropriation 1 of $100,000 to build a new residence c for tho king. 1 Two young men took $1,400 worth of silver out of tbo top of Leavenworth mountain, Colorado, in ooo week, at an expense of $30. The shoo factories of Auburn, Maine, make 1,000 pairs of shoes per hour, ' and consume 500 barrels of flour an 1 nually for paste. A romantic lady of the French no-bilily no-bilily is spending her time and money r in renovating the tomb of Abclard and - Eloiso at Perc la Chaise. J A Cincinnati wife ieft her husband's - board, but took the bed with her. lie . is puzzled to know how to word a legal . notice of warning to prospective creditors. credi-tors. Henry Ward I'eceher has declared against total abstinence, which l,e thinks may be very well for tmc, but not so good for others, one uf wlium he I ii which. A New York paper says the innocent inno-cent mountaineers of Switzerland were recently astonished by the apparition of two New York dandies climbing tho Alps in tall silk hats, fashionable clothing cloth-ing and kid gloves. p' During the late hurricano in Ohio a b)lt of flannel, containing forty-six yards, was carried nine miles by the wind. Letters blown from a jost-officc jost-officc wero picked up nineteen miles away. |
