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Show rVKLLXGS. A man at Kieter, Kug lacd, lately sold bis wl'e for $-60. Dc Uy A'arden calico is found to be excellent bait for mackerel. They don't Bay bog in Indiana "crude bacon" is the term. Tho big Cincinnati fount tin will spout ice water this summer. The riDg U an unending topic of young and tnarriagabie ladies. The largest income in Morgan county, coun-ty, Ilia , is returned by a wciuan. MorTLcsey is erecting pomo elegant jockey quarters on his Saratoga grounds. Imagine tho distress of a milliner who forgot on which side of the rote to put the hat. In New Mexico, a recent vote on es-tablifhine es-tablifhine free schools, stood 37 for, and 5,016 against. In New York gas cost $3 50 per thousand cubic teet ; in Pittsburg, Pa., $1.S0; io San Francisco, $2. Miss Paulina Given, of the Drs Moines Register, is said to be the only lady in Iowa who is given to journalism. journal-ism. Tho Japs who are pursuing their studies at tho Chicago universiiy wear their "plugs" with rccklees grace. Ex-mayor Opdyke, of New York, has had to pay a tine of $250 for failure fail-ure to attend on jury duty and giving no good reason therefor. The Colorado desert, by a late railroad rail-road survey, is, in places, over A)0 feet below the level of tho sea. Tho scientists are taken down. The New York papers anuounce ; that it is a positivo fact that "Dolly 1 ' Vardcn pants," of the masculine persuasion, per-suasion, are announced by a Broadway Broad-way clothier. Chocolate.tho flour of the cocoa-nut, was first introduced into England from Mexico, in the year 1520, aud soon after af-ter became a favorite bevcrago in London Lon-don coffee-houses. Calico, the well known cotton cloth, is named from Calicot, a city in India, from whence it first came. Calico was not known in England at all until as late as tho year 1031. Bowling was a famous old English gamo, and was very common as early as the 13th century. Charles I. played play-ed at it, and it was a daily sport with Charles II. at Tunbridge. The oldest and largest ohain bridge in the world is said to be in Kings-burg, Kings-burg, China, where it forni3 a safe and perfect road from the top of one lofty mountain to another. Armorial bearings became hereditary at the close of the twelfth century, and took their origin from the Crusaders, who were accustomed to paint their banners with various devices. Tho first piece of artillery was invented in-vented by a German, soon after the invention of gun-powder, and artillery waa first used by the Moors at Algesi-ras, Algesi-ras, in Spain, over 500 years ago. The first bank was established in Ttalv in the year 808, by the Lombard Jews, of whom eome settled in Lombard Lom-bard street, London, where many banks have ever since been located. A little Boston boy, after saving his pennies for two years, took his small hoard from the bank, bought a pistol, loaded it, fired it off, and lost his hand. If this isn't a warning to small A suit has been begun by Henry A. Tilden in the United States circuit court, in New York, for the recovery frnm gonornl Butler of the value of the steamer Nassau seized by Butler while he was in command at New Orleans. |