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Show 'i'iio yr.ad hoppere arc ailliotiug T!io p-'tto iKwse is1 on ill? llC-T'ts', in Engl.mtl. ' ' '' ' The Imlinn niu-stion ""Wlnte iu;tu g'"'t any rum Clnouto bui!diu- ,0"t.(K."t worth of iu-w cliun.-hes. ermont h:s oOO Sumliw schools with C.,0.-,o teachers, and 4y,4'Ascliol- Tlie VhrhCan Cirimi says that " it niojv sinful to plav eiinls thim j:U'k?tr:t-Vs.';' ' . The JJritUh press treat with ridicule the failure of tho tmi is-Aliunde balloon bal-loon pivject. There were shipped from Augusta, ti.v, this sea j-oniiii, 800 watermelory, against WZl'l last year. . -UneUxly has mtulo the discovery make i verv tolenihle snbstitulo for eullec. : I-ong liraneh is going to have a lloman Catholic Churcli, on ground presented hy John Jioey, a rich expressman. ex-pressman. The Danbury jVir. nmn doesn't take well in Kugiand. The London AiwHitim ealhi hU book "exceedingly dull and wearisome." Nine-tenths of the ministers of the country are not well paid na baseball base-ball professionals. But religion is not the "national game." Joaquin Miller rides in Hyde Turk, London, hi his Mexican Vanquero costume, with white sombrero, covered cover-ed with cords and tassels. Josie Mansfield's English lover, the one who recently challenged a Paris alitor on her -account bus gone off with LoOu of her money. General Hardee was kicked in the bide by a mule a few days ago and is dangerously ill. Hid lacies never provided pro-vided lor such a rear movement; . A man on his way to the Columbus State prison passed himself off as a member of the Ohio constitutional-convention, constitutional-convention, and came near making liia escape. ,- Tl e'meadtu'en tent of time in-Japan is now in accordance with the custom of the civilized world. Clock towers have been erected, from which bells regularly toil the hour. A Missouri clergyman was lately called upon to marry 14 couples in one day, and his fees amounted to oO pounds of dried apples and a due-bill for IS bushels of buckwheat. ,, , A Connecticut admirer of-Alexander H. Stephens wrote to him tusking blood, but Mr. Stephens wrote bark on sixteen pages of note paper that it w:ts. 11 - ( XeVaska's new laws- imposes fines for profane swearing done by "any person of the age of fourteen years and upwards.'' Children under fourteen four-teen may blaspheme gratuitously as before. , - , i . Sfivanah, Ca.,has a dry-goods clerk who has been horse-whipped by seven different women. He claims to be ! the much sought ft Iter individual alluded al-luded to in scripture : "And seven women shall take hold of one man." A clergyman recently risked a girl concerning her intended : "Is he, in his conversation and carriage, a consistent con-sistent Christian She replied : "In his conversation he is very pious, but I never saw him in his carnage.'' From Danbury: "The chuvches were well filled Sunday. The, shape is an improvement, but the trimming is not wholly satis factor-. ri1iey set a. mue turtner uact on tive head than the summer styles, we thank. A Dos Moines superintendent of police made the following entry in his register : "The pripouer set upon me, called me an asa, a precious dolt, a scarecrow, a raamutlin, and idiot-all idiot-all of which I certify to be true." A grocer being solicited to contribute contri-bute to the budding of a church, promptly subscribed his name to the paper in the following eccentric manner: man-ner: "John Jones .(the only place in town where you can ,get 11 pounds of sugar for a dollar), '2o cents. Itoek-a-by railroad Slock, bnd, or no to : ' Whon the kite flies well, !' The railroad will flout. 1 W hen the bank breaks, , , ; 'lhe kite's got to fall, Down comos thornilroad, Stocks, bonds, notes, and all. |