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Show INKLINGS. Flap-jack eociables are raging in Iowa. The hackman'fl bawl "Kemagc, sir ?" Minneapolis wants a kindergarten .gcliool. Pure air in better than tar for weak lunga. Homcepathy has again been refused admittance to the Uuiveraity ofMichi-gan. Germany requires about 5,000,000 more rifles to place its army on a peace looting. Large quantities of Australian pearls have appeared for sale in the English market. There is a two-year-old boy in North Adams who smokes tobacco, and the stronger the pipe the better he likes it. At the end of 1873 there were 71,-564 71,-564 miles of railroad in the country, 4,190 miles having been constructed during the year. A teacher in Iowa has been discharged dis-charged for obeying St. Paul, who , says : "Greet one another with a holy kiss." He kissed a school-marm. That water will find its level wa recently re-cently Bhown at Merion, Ohio, where on Christmas Day, a Mr. John C. Water was married to a Miss Caroline Level. A well-dressed man, apparently a mechanic, recently created a sensation sensa-tion in Boston by walking about with a placard on his hat on which was inscribed in-scribed "I want work." The report of the special commissioner commis-sioner to the Pennsylvania State Legislature recommends an appropriation appropri-ation of $1,000,000 in aid of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Centennial. A couple in Colebrook, Mass, tied their Bick child to the bed and went to church. They were gone four hours, and when they returned the neighbors, neigh-bors, attracted by the prisoner's cries, had broken in the door. The parents were arrested. Mrs. David Cleveland of Pawlet, Vermont, tried to burn camphor over a kerosene lamp, and it will never be known whether it was the camphor or kerosene that first exploded. Mrs. Cleveland thinks it was the camphor that burned her neck, and tho kerosene kero-sene that set fire to her dress. Captain Burton, the African explorer, ex-plorer, has discovered at C.wtillieri.in lama, some similar edifitvs, of which he made plans, and which he describes descri-bes as "the most ancient that he has yet seen." The foundations appur to be more ancient than the "cyclo-pean" "cyclo-pean" structures at Mycenal. The Mises Smith, who own a farm in Glastonbury, Conn., are insurrectionary. insurrec-tionary. They refuse to pay their lazes because they cannot vote, and dare the authorities to Beize their property. pro-perty. Glastonbury is the town which has nad a boundary line fight running in the courta over a hundred years. It the process of law is similarly slow in the case of the Misses Smith, they may retain their farm as long as they have any personal use for it. |