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Show IlVKLIiVGS. . Butter is scarce in Texas, Vanderbilt lingers at Saratoga. Kentucky has felt an earthquake. Ice is still in great demand at Mom-phis. Mom-phis. - Pumpkin pic nics are prevalent in Iowa. Anna Diokinson is getting very stout Petersburg, Va., is to have an Indian Indi-an show. Rockport, Texas, has a factory for cannirjg turtles. White coats, like Greeley's, are Chinese mourning. A joint affair with but a sioglo party to it Rheumatism. Noe's pioturo of Stanley is not considered con-sidered a good ncgativo. A mad dog turns up in New Orleans Or-leans every once in a while. John A. Logan has taken to quoting quot-ing Fcripture. This is rough on the Biblo. An ugly and ignorant watchman of Harlem, New York, has married a $300,000 widow. Charles Reade's now (ale, "A Simpleton," Sim-pleton," begins with an essay on the folly of tight lacing. The weather is peculiar in St Louis, They say, "It was cold enough last night for an umbrella. Thero is a report that Bonner is to retire from the active management of the New York "Ledger. At a recent firo in Fayottevillo, Iowa, some young m?n pulled down a rook fence to keep it from burning. Professor Thrasher is tho disagreeably disagree-ably suggestive name of tho principal of a sohool in Netawaka, Kansas. Miss Nellie Grant is to be married to a Frenchman, somewhat distinguished distin-guished in the world of literature. The telegrams indicate that hatred for the South has not entirety died out in some portions of New England. There are now thirty-two trains crossing the Missouri river bridgo daily, between Council Bluffs and Omaha. Oliver Twist, a stono mason at Rochester, New York, wan nearly killed by falling off a scaffold last week. Miss Josephine Mansfield, it is said, will request lecture audieaoee to "Put Themselves in Her Place." We'd rather not. A prominent physician declares that beating the refractory schoolboy on the hand is often highly injurious to the boy's health. Only one white man was present at the late Radical convention at La Grange, Ga., and he was the postmaster post-master at West Point A Canadian matron one hundred and eight years old is still able to devote de-vote much ene-gy to bringing up her little boy, aged ninety-three. Holyoke, Mass., is doubly proud this summer. It has produced a tobacco to-bacco leaf three fect and a half long, and buried an old lady, aged 110. A new cigar factory has been opened at Key West, Florida, whioh will give employment to live, hundred hands and turn oat 175,000 cigars every week.. The Christian Milk association of New York, aocordiog to their circular, propose to furnish "purer lacteal fluid to the ohalk-ridden people of that city." A good Miehigander has been pronounced pro-nounced non compos mentis because he rushed through the main street of Detroit in search of "the road tc heayen." |