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Show ALL SORTS. One million bushels or peanuts were eaten in the United States last year. Professor Swing ha3 declined the call to Brooklyn and will remain in Chicago. A plate of glass was finished some time ago in Indianapolis 198 inches long and 9S inches wide. Forty thousand bushels of sweet potatoes will be gathered from one plantation near Atlanta, Ga. Nearly 5,000 young women find employment as barmaids in London, where there are about 9,000 drinking establishments of various kinds. The decision on tho constitutionality constitution-ality of the enlorcemont act of 1S70 in tho United States supremo court is not espocted before the last of November. No-vember. A few more of theso Bnappy mornings morn-ings and no house-fly wilt care a copper whether the family he lives with mranB to run in debt for their coal or pay cash. Two cadets of the United States, naval academy having been con-, victed of hazing, Secretary Robeson has ordered thoir immediate dismissal Irom the institution. Young mistress (at the parlor door): "Eliza, what is the bell ringing ring-ing so violently for ?" Cook (below): "It's only me, m'um, I want you down in the kitchen a minute." There has been a depreciation of property in Philadelphia since the panic of from 15 to 20 per cent. Yet the valuation for the purpose of taxation tax-ation has been increased year by year. . (1 . The birds' nest to highly prized by the Chinese is the size of a small teacup, tea-cup, and weighs scarcely half an ounce. It is of creamy whiteness, and is made of a gelatine produced by the bird. It brings thrice its weight in Bilver. The biggest canoe ever built has been brought from Mouuillah, a chief in British Columbia, and will be sent to the centennial. It is sixty feet long, eight feet wide, and tour leet deep, and carries one hundred passengers. pas-sengers. The state of New York has purchased pur-chased the "Seth Greon fish pond" at Caledonia, N. Y. They will hereafter here-after be the centre for the state system sys-tem of fish culture and will be placed in charge of Mr. Monroe A. Green, brother of Seth Green. A panther rushed into a bedroom in a house a few miles from Willis, Texas, the other day, and carried ofl a baby in his mouth, but the twelve-year-old sister followed and screamed so lustily that the bruto drooped the youngster only slightly injured. The monument to the pilgrioiB at Plymouth has received its front tablet, bearing the inscription: National Na-tional monument to tho forefathers, I erected by a grateful people in re-memberance re-memberance of their labors, sacrifices sacri-fices and suflerings for the cause of civil and religious liberty." |