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Show IXKLtSGS. There are 60,000 Catholic teetotal-era teetotal-era in the United States. A Cincinnati man advertises, "Work ia not quite so much an object ob-ject as goodwngea." The averace length of life after admission ad-mission to the almshouses of New York ia said to be 20 years. v Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has been left in total darkness by the destruction de-struction of the city gas works. Irs. Allen Turner, of Nash, N. C, has given birth to twenty-one children, chil-dren, and is still in her prime. I The hand loom weavers of Philadelphia Phila-delphia have decided to make- the bosses pay more money or strike. The Carson Appeal, of Nevada, calls the Kev. McGnvth "the political heretic and theological rip-snorter." A man in Lafayette, Indiana, has just sold, for $-30,000, a herd of Teias cattle that he gave $"20,000 for last fall. One can visit a Japanese theatre for two cents, and a Jan worth live cents is hanaed you to use and take home. On the principle of like curing like, it is now suggested that the bite of a rattlesnake might cure hydrophobia. hydro-phobia. Sandy Station, a colored citizen of j.iuiui uaiuiuia, una guue IV lue Jieu- itentiary for five years. Ho stole live chickens. Mrs. Harris, who served as a nurse tlirough the war, has been made consul at Venice as a return for her patriotism. The Bologneae have decided to erect a monument to Galvani, the great Bolognese physician, who discovered dis-covered animal electricity. The keeper of the college book Btore at Brunswick, Me., hiis received receiv-ed $15 conscience money lor books pilfered from his store some years ago. The capital invested in the manufacture manu-facture of glass in St. Louis amounts to more than $1,000,000. Several hundred men are employed in the business. Mr. Beecher can take up that mortgage if the lecture season holdB out well at $1,000 a night. This is what reputation and advertising does ibr a man. Boston News. The Illinois Central Land Department Depart-ment reports for September sales of 32,090.05 acres for $22J78.ol, and cash collections on land contracts of $38,724.94. An English trade circular says that the American manufacturers have nearly monopolized their home demand de-mand for cheap table cutlery, and they are now endeavoring to secure the trade in cheap pocket goods. The Eev. Phillip Brooks has refused re-fused a salary of $20,000 a year from Philadelphia, said to be the highest salary ever oflered to an Episcopal clergyman in this county, and one of $15,000 from New York. He loves Boston. A colored preacher down south took for his text the words, "Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall 1 see God," which he divided into three parts, as follows! "First, skin worms; second, what they done; third, what the man seen after he was eat up." Albany, Ga., 'Rem: "JefJ. Long said in his speech the other night, in this place, that the civil rights bill did give a colored man the right to marry mar-ry a white wile, and when it passed he was going to make the white people 'toe the mark,' and 'hunt his gal wherever he pleased.' " |