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Show Boucicault makes $1,000 a night., Onrlews have appeared in Nevada. 1 The Kanucks arc using ecrip currency. cur-rency. Agnea Ethel rcccivea fifty love letters let-ters weekly. Atohison has agents in Europe trying try-ing to soil bridge bonds. A New Hampshire family has lost seven members by suioido. Denver had the first snow storm of tho season Friday morning. The fruit crop of Kansas this year ie estimated at $2,S00,000. Brass bands serenade the inmates of the Michigan State prison. Tallahassee boasts of a banana leaf nine feet ten inches in length. An Indian farmer has purchased tho "Cardiff Giant' ' for a gale poat. Walrus dentistry in Alaska is active, the produot being sent to Oregon. ; The Niagara Presbytery have condemned con-demned the purohase of " prizo paok-ages." paok-ages." Cooks in tho Russian army lose a month's pay every time they spoil a dinner. A nobleman is grinding a hand or gan tnrOQgn ireiana in performance oi a wager. New Jerseymen are espeoting to turn a part of ihoir cranberry orop into in-to whiskey. An enthusiastic Kentuokian has spent eleven years in hunting the mammoth mam-moth caves. It rains on the White mountains three weeks at a time so report Bummer Bum-mer visitors. A perfectly petrified oak tree has been unearthed by some laborers in Philadelphia, Denver, is bragging over turnips, raised near that place, which weigh twenty-one pounds. Miss Swartz, of Marshall county, Texas, fell into a sorghum evaporator, and was badly boiled, A laborious literateur of New York is oolleoting materials for a dictionary of Amerioan political slacg. Thirty per cent, of the youBg men of Massachusetts emigrate west beforo reaching their twentieth year. A boy of nine years has been arrested arrest-ed at Liverpool for garroting fatally and robbing a Btill younger boy. Ever mindful of the comfort of its citizens, Buffalo is building another large and commodious insane asylum, Sylvaous Cobb, Jr., after some ninety nine-ty odd novels, now expresses great disgust at blood-and-thuoder fiction. 'ihe Danbury "Ncwo" bays : '"Mrs. Annie Badger ot Danbury wore the fin(i.r. nnri lnrcrnr. nriitn.'il VinsfU ot tt,o fair." i A Troy man found a $50 pearl in a quart of oysters, and a bull movement upon the oyster trade has been effected thereby immediately. A Cincinnati alderman and his friend wore recently tossed twenty feet by the oonoussion of lightning. They eoon recovered consciousness and would be happy to know "who throwed tha brick' The railway company running through tho Mount Cenis tunnel have been requested by the French government govern-ment to suspend some of their trains in order to allow tho laying of mines, to be exploded in oase of war. |