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Show SCRAPS. ! The mines near Danlouega, Ga., are said to be yielding $10,000 to a ton of quartz. The dome of the capitol building at Boston is being decorated with gold leaf at a cost of 1,650. Bowen, the bigamist Sherifl of Charleston, S.C., has an income from his oflice of" from $'.10,000 to $30,000 a year. Fever is raging at Damascus, where 14,000 persons, including half the garrison, have been attacked by the : disease. It is stated that the last photograph of the Princess of Wales is to great a favorite that 300,000 copies of it have been sold. The number of volumes of American Ameri-can law reports now exceeds 2,000, and they are incrcaiing at the rate of ; 100 per year. Seven hundred female telegraphists are employed in the central London postotiice. Their wnges vary from 14s. to 16s. a week. The Treasury Departmental Washington Wash-ington has just expended $15.50 for "repairing a wheel-barrow" that originally cost about $3.75. The late Gardner Brewer's proper tv is estimated at $5,000,000, which u said to be the largest amount ever left by any citizen in Boston. The whole number of defaulting roads in the country is 10S, and the whole amount of bonded debt defaulted de-faulted od is $497,S07,6ii0, of which $15U,000,000 is held in Europe. It is reported from Sicily that the north side of -Mount . Etna has been rent open and torn up in a triinvorie hne about two miles in lenglh, upon which are situated twenty craters. A telegraphers' newspaper, speaking speak-ing ol the employment of women as operators, says that their power is already al-ready felt in the higher style of conversation con-versation between male operators over the wires. Cleveland's mean man, the other day, when a boy restored his pocket-book pocket-book with $500 in it, invited the youngster around to a fruit stand, bought a dime's worth of peaches, gave the youth one, and put the rest in his own pocket. The Alaska Herald says that in Nnsbik, Alaska, in latitude 62 deg.N.; the thermometer on the coldest day of last winter indicated 12 deg. above zero, and that outdoor work can be successfully carried on there from the first of April to the middle of October. Octo-ber. The widow and children of the late Captain Fry, of Yirginius Cuban i fame, are now living in New Orleans : in great need. An appeal is about ! to be made for the realization ' of his last words: "God will raise up friends for rny poor widow and fatherless children." A little eirl, who was playing with one of those toy balloons which are blown up by the breath, was in the act of inflating it, and drawing in her breath rather suddenly the collapsed balloon went down her throat, lodging' there and causing the poor little creature's crea-ture's death by 8u (location in a very few minutes. |