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Show VARIETIES. Berks county, Pa., boaata of a i hiekea with a leg on top of its head. Frozen peaches wil! be shipped to Europe this summer in larje quanti-lien. quanti-lien. The Erie railroad now sells first-eliiod first-eliiod tickets from Mew York t Calcutta Cal-cutta lor $t00 a total distance of! 12,743 miles. One hundred and 6fty ' picked Wel-h siiit.'frw ' are organizing an expedition to attend the centennial at Philadelphia. Co into the woods go fishing take an excursion anything, anywhere, lur the sake of a nut. You need it everybtxly needB it. A farmer of Hamden county, Connecticut, Con-necticut, freed hia potato patch of beetles by sprinkling them with aoft soap and water. A cat in Pittsburg, Pa., has hatched out two chickens; and it in eaid that she scratches for them as carefully and successfully aa any old hen. Hon. Alexander L. Hayee, died at Lancester, Pa., recently, at the age of 82 years. He waa upor the bench of that county for forty-two yeara. Hon. Ana Parker, the founder ol the Lehigh university at South Betide- h-iu rrjanHtf mdA ttm lnt.ltll- Lion a present of thirty acrea of laud. Ou the last 5th of July there were one or two thousand people killed or injured throughout the country by careless uao of firearms and fireworks. fire-works. Madame Christine Nitason sang recently re-cently for the benefit of the Westminster West-minster school for nurses in London, and the proceeds are estimated at about $4,509. There are no special foreign postal cards as yet, therefore an additional one cent stamp affixed to an ordinary postal card will convey it to Great Britain without further charge. A young man at Wheeling, Va., got up a picnic, invited twenty-eight girls, took them all himself, provided the dinner at his own expense, and went home to find eighteen challenges awaiting him. The Omaha papers are endeavoring to cover up the fact that only one end of the Pacific railway cornea iDto then-town then-town by making a great fuea about an invention for hatching chickens by alefim. Chicago Jer-Ocean, London Punch is said to be in a bad way financially, and it is feared that ila impending fail tiro will lead to a Hood of cheap and feeble imitators, which -will show England's decadence in humor as well as in war and commerce. com-merce. It ia said that one reason ol the fulling off of European emgiration to this country is tho lalse representations representa-tions made by swindling agents in Great Britain as to the splendid chances lor fortune in the western hemisphere. Dickens alwaya believed in spiritualism spirit-ualism until after asking at a acance the attendance of the spirit of Lind-ley Lind-ley Murray, and being answered by the spectre, to whom he put the question: "Are you the epiritofLind-ley epiritofLind-ley Murray! " " I are! " The Plymouth beatitude: "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and prosecute you, and shall say all manner man-ner of evil againBt you falsely, rejoice and bo exceedingly glad, lor your salnry shall be increased five-fold, and mortgages shall not prevail againBt you." A story CDmes from Bloomiugton, III., that a hen recently laid an egg with the words "friendship, love and truth" engraved upon it. Send her , to Brooklyn. In a weok Bite would be nest-hidingin Plymouth pulpitaud laying eggs with ''grace, mercy and peace" on them for Henry Ward's breakfast, A gentleman, meeting a Wall street friend, said: "I've just mortgaged my house, and have several thousand dol-' dol-' lars to spare. Can't you tell me something some-thing neat and safe to go into?" "Yea," replied the broker, "I caiput you to a sure thing; buy that mortgage mort-gage on your house !" A large and elegant tea shop waa opeued in St. Louis about a month some and the prices so low that the suits wefe enormous from tho attirt. Yet one morning the place was closed, and later on the same day the tea merchant's creditors took possession. An examination showed that Ihe chests remaining contained only sbw-dusf. sbw-dusf. The merchant had obtaiced $10,000 worth of tea on credit, for a month, had sold the whole ol it at less than its actual value, and Dad goue away with the money. The National grange has movel to Louisville. Now let the secretary go on with his agricultural poetry: t Beyond ihe vermicelli row j 1 hor Ilia bulllrojf'a sigh ngiuu, ; Tlii nckle of tbs Dufharn owu, j The hollow of the Borkahire lion., Wo' 11 chase tho plum to his rotroatl We'll hunt tho egga the onioni 15; Anil when the ban him hog bb&li bBftt We'll feed him with soiuo clover ly. |