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Show Tiiuntou, Mass., firmem are plowing. plow-ing. London is oxper.mcnting with woodon pavenienta. Imprisonment for crown debta is still in vogue in EugHnd. The Itnlian troops tvIII probably be armed witii a repetiLiig rifle. . The Spanish civi war is nflfecting the supply ot'oranca in Europe. "Hp winnowed ier to paradise with a fence r.u," it the lust phrase for wife-murder. The Brooklyn Avua talks about "Unit simple h ermi;, Col. Thomas Ruilrond iscott." I "By Georpe," is considered to be an Oiilh in Canada, and he who uses it may be fmiiu 10. Vice President Wlson is tenting the virtues of a water-ctre establishment in Western 2s' ew Ycrk. Southern papers regnnl Alex. H. Stephens' speech 01 the increase of me congressional suarica aa uniur-tunate. uniur-tunate. j A popular way of gettinp rid of I one's poor relation' in to start them for Europe on boarl of some floating palace. The Xew York Graphic claims to be on a payinc bass now, after expending ex-pending 13,1(00 to get the paper before be-fore the public. There is much myptery as to the whereabouts of Mr. Patterson, the owner of the Viryinius. Mont as much as about Billy. When Bo?s Tweed took his seat in the Senate in IS!?, he weighed 304 pounds: when weighed at Blackwell's inland the figure was 2o3. The new resilience of the British mini&ter at Washington is to be constructed con-structed of pressed bricks, with atone caps and sills. It will cost $150,(KX. A young lady intends to sue her father for a bmicii of promise. He said lie would consent, and then wouldn't. The hard-hearted ld daddy. Joaquin Miller called at the London Tini'-.s Qtiice to have a chat, and crew highly indignant when they seut iiiin to the basement to chat with the engineer. en-gineer. A one-armed soldier walked from Cincinnati to Washington to get a position, and the position he got was before the police julitice charged with ',Binub: "During the session of congress," says a Washington newspaper.' 'some of the members will receive daily." The announcement secma entirely unnecessary. ' After all the rorching and ill-luck of Boston, the value of her real and personal property is greater by eighty millions than that of the whole State of 2s"ew Jersey. The common council of Brooklyn pays the reporters $50 each per annum an-num for reporting proceedings and for the loss of caste in mixing up with aldermen. A sad feature of "the Boston tea doings was a group of sentimentalists', who stoo 1 for un hour in the chilling fog looking contemplatively into tbe water off the wrong wharf. Somebody has pat on the market a preparation for coloring the gums a delicate and beautiful pink. It is intended in-tended for ladies only, save the label a bit of superfluous information, we think. The intellect of Japan is becoming uturuugiuy uruustu. j-'isussiuua un almost every conceivable subject are going forward, and ide:is of the most radical character are gradually coming com-ing to the surface. . Among the curiosities at Fort Yuma, Yu-ma, Ariz.ma, is a gigantic "prairie sciiooncr" 01 twenty thousand pounds -capacity. It 13 drawn by forty mules, the smallest of which is fifteen hands high, and weighs one thousand three hundred and fifty pounds. |