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Show "African Peanut Flour" ii announced. announc-ed. Ohi'i announces new discoveries of gold ruiocs. Massachusetts is to have a new lunatic lun-atic asylum. Fresh mackerel, packed in oil, arc now imported. A pure whito squirrel wan killed in llliDOis recently. Kvansvtlle, Intl. , wants its naiuo changed to Lauiaseo. Tho grand duke Alexis is now bound for the Atnoor river. Tho "Sistcra of Silence" is a Michigan Mich-igan association of women. A comio paper, the "Indian Charivari," Char-ivari," is to be started in Calcutta. The editor of tho Louisiana Sugar Bowl has st uted the Louisiana Cotton Boll. New i'ork and i(3 neighborhood havo 100,000 fcioani! in avian inhabitants. inhabit-ants. More thau three carriagiis in funeral procession aru prohibited ut Abingdon, Miss. At San Antonio, Texas, apples aro $24 a barrel and beef two cents a pound. Indiana and Ohio are quarrelling as to which State has tho moot poor-houses. poor-houses. Louisville Ins a newly invented stcum car on trial upon her street railways. rail-ways. The Bill Poster's national convention conven-tion is to bo held at Cinuinnati January Jan-uary loth. A quarrel over a twenty-fire cent bet resulted in a murder at Kichmond, Ky., lately. Tho young hippopoiumus recently born in London is said to bo doing The dearest object to a man should be his wife, but it is not unl'rcqucntly her clothes. A Kentucky newspaper Gi'ds fault with somo of the judiciary thero tor playing marbles. A Georgia authoress has w:ittcn a novel iu which Alexander LI. Stephens appears as tho h-.ro A liou is iftiiid to be roaming tho woods in Missouri, and making things very lively in his neighborhood. The "New York Herald" describes as "A Lost Art" ia that city, "The repression of crime by suspension of tho criminal." "Late English journals allude to a rumor ru-mor that poirfou, and not rheumatistu, was the cause of the recent severe illness ill-ness of king Amadcus. A guileless man at Danbury, Conn , paw a Icauliful chromo advertised "for fifty cents," and sent on the money 1 and received the jick of c!ubs. The female firm of the Misses Nelson Nel-son and Tyler, at Springfield, Ma-s., manufacture patent circinglcs, employing employ-ing twenty girls in lua work- A Chicago police sergeant, ivho joined the loree twelve years aso a poor man, has accumulated luu.OUO, and resigned to give another poor but honest hon-est man an opportunity.. Twelve Indiana were hung in a row in Texas, recently, for driving off surreptitious sur-reptitious beef. After having their faces washeJ, eleven turned out to be white men. A young woman at Torquay, England, Eng-land, was frightened to doatb, recently, recent-ly, by hearing a door slam in the next room, which he thought was her husband hus-band shooting himself. |