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Show IIVKLIjYGS. Iowa has a fivo-lcggcd mule. Dubuque has lost its mayor. Omaha uses no Bibles in schools. Pioux City's jail stands anrented. Tunis has opened her first railway. Davenport has 1,500 cases of ague. The lailors of St. Louis are striking." Milwaukee's ico supply has frozen up. Peru and Chili aro sick with smallpox. small-pox. Peru has abolished tho death penalty. pen-alty. Tin cards for tin weddings aro in style. Georgia mules are having the mumps. Silver weddings are going out of fashion. Women voto in Kansas at school meetings. Tho citizens of Ohio are insured for $130,000,000, Gas in London costs niooty-two cents a thousand feet. Two banks are doing a fair business in New Zealand. Detroit lunatics drown themselves at the rate of one a day. St. Louis' board of health has organized organ-ized a soeial-evil hospital. A New Hampshire family has lost seven members by suicide. There are three floating islands in Wavorly lake, Minnesota. Log Pail is the best namo a new Michigan town oould afford. A seat for loafers, with a galvanic battery attachment, is out. A Pittsburgh poet calls dew the "perspiration of the moon." Gold-mining is being successfully prosecuted at Gaysville, Vt. An exchange says that the Kansas Kiowas would scalp a seal skin trunk. Tho Rock Island police are around with the New York Regulation club. An alderman and ex-city-attorney of Mobile has been detected io incendiarism. incendiar-ism. A misguided Minnesota county fair offers premiums for the three heaviest women. More ancient copper mines in abun-danoe abun-danoe are rewarding Lake Superior antiquaries. Forepaugh's menagerie consumes upwards of three hundred bushels of corn a day. Tbey smuggle Texas cattle through southern Kansas in violation of law by yokiog them to an empty wagon. Edmonia Lewis, the Degro sculptress, is located at Rome, and has so much work to do that she employs nine assistants. as-sistants. Henry Weidmann, of Milwaukee, the youog man who drew the Crickelar opera-house at Green Bay, has sold it for $3,500. Small snakes, eomo of them nine inches long, resembling white threads, have been found in apples in Ellcn-ville, Ellcn-ville, Ulster oouoty, N. Y. Julia Scheok Meyers, of St. Louis, was married to her first husband eight years ago, and last Monday followed her fourth one to tho grave. The "Gospel Aid society" of Atlanta, Atlan-ta, Ga., got into so bad a row that the police arrested the entire organization, in spite of all the "gospel aid" they could bring on. |