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Show LNKLIXGS. J St. Tnmmiuiy is the name of a Lou-isiiimi Lou-isiiimi parisli. Opiiim-eatinc is said to bo becoming becom-ing more popular in America every year. Mnine ship-builders nre gratified at the increasing opening for their float- ( ing eapiul. " Yuug Americiis," the well-known musical prodigy, died in Boston on , .Saturday week. ' John Pettie, A. R. A., has been elected R. A., in place of the late Sir Edwin Landaeer. Dismal Swamp reeds arc to be sent to readers of cheap literature in the form of printing paper. One may become enough of a legal resident of Washington for divorce purposes in nine months. Seventeen thousand people are living liv-ing on charity in Chicago ttiid winter, according to the Infer-Ocean. An Illinois ghost is in hospital for a severe gun-shot wound, and they're treating him with spirit lotions. A member of the Illinois Legislature Legisla-ture bus oflercd a bill fixing a fine ior members who talk for "buncombe." Anna, Dickinson won't tell the name of her new novel, and there is a general call for handkerchiefs and salts. Charles Aster Bristcd, well known : as "Carl Benson," ia lying dangerously danger-ously ill at his residence in Waah-' Waah-' ington. China, Japan and Turkey have promised to help Philadelphia in celebrating cel-ebrating the csntenniversary of Republicanism. An industrious and faithful m e-cbanic e-cbanic of Dallas, Texas, found his hat lined with five-dollar gold nieces as he raised it to place it upon his bead on Christmas morning a testimonial testi-monial from an appreciative employer. employ-er. Fun has what it calls a "coublun-drum," "coublun-drum," which is appropriate to some results of our prohibitory law: What is the diflerence between a man's assertion as-sertion and a drunkard's departure? One is an ipse dixit the other a tip-sey tip-sey exit. There is a Revolutionary pieces of crockery in the family of 'Mr. Bushman, Bush-man, at Gettysburg, Pa., nearly two hundred years old, which has been used by live generations, and ought to be among the historical relics of the Centennial. The proprietor of a pension, located at Mentone, Italy, advertises in a late number ot the Xu-ivs Times that he has "learnt of the art to make buckwheat buck-wheat cakes and fish balls at the Hotel Ho-tel de la P.iix, Geneva, in true American Amer-ican style." During the Khiva expedition the Russian soldiers were fed chiefly on biscuits composed one-third of rye tlour, one-third of powdered beef, and one-third of sauer-kraut. The soldiers soldi-ers liked this food and their good health is attributed hi great part to the use of it. The Prefect of Versailles recently declared that in the department o'f the Seine-et-Oise the mortality of infants in-fants is from 60 to 70 per cent. A large proportion of these children are habitually put out to nurse through the exigencies of fashion and the influence in-fluence of habit among Parisian mothers. |