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Show FACTS AND FANCIES. Only eleven postmasters have licked stamps for Boston since 17S9. I The Prince of Wales takes a zoologist zoolo-gist and a botanist in his train t5 India. Mr. Georgo Grant's stock farm covers the entire county of Ellis, in Kansas. The Chicago elevators handle annually an-nually more than 00,000,000 bushels of grain. The Bostonians can stand around the depot and see thiity-six cars full of peaches come in. Mary S.iflord Blake writes from Salt Lake city that twenty-five Mormon Mor-mon girls are studying medicine. The colored sLsters of Jacksonville, Fa., havo founded "The Rising Daughters of Sepulchre" Association. Associa-tion. Tho celebration at Nashville in memory ot the late ex-President Johnson will take place on the 2d of October. The full figures of the Boston census cen-sus foot up 311,010102,202 males and 170,057 females -a gain of about 20 per cent, in ten years. According to official reports 10,808 persons wero banished to Siberia between be-tween May and October last year by the Russian government. In 1871 the United States furnished 5 per cent, of the importations into Brazil, and received 46 per cent, of the exportations from that country. Barnum has just paid $20,000 for a babv hiDDOootamus. which is by far the hippopotamr st that was ever paid for a creature of this kind before. Benjamin Franklin's copper composing com-posing stick is in the hands of a compositor com-positor on the Tremont, O., Journal. It will be sent to Philadelphia next year. A question to como before the Texas constitutional convention is that ofllie establishment of corporal punishment by tho whipping-post and Blocks. Japan is now shipping bricks to California and selling them cheaper than tbosomadein that state, not-1 withstanding there is an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent, on them. Personal notices in the Brownsville Bee are rated at a barrel of corn per notice. Style and length of notice subject to the discretion of the editor; but the corn must be shelled and sound, M. Robing, a French chemist, has notified the academy of medicine, PariB, that we may all live for ever if we use enough lactic acid, and recommends re-commends the extensive use of but termilk. A young man swimming in the surf, and towing a young woman who clutcheB one of his feet in her delicate hands, may be having a sweely romantic ro-mantic experience, but the Bight is not for that reason the less grotesque, I A Cliieiten rnrresnnndent of the Louisville Courier-Journal says the pufis of Chicago by the papers thereof have induced thousands to resort to that city for employment who have not found it. and have no chance ol obtaining it. The New York San says there are to day more elTeclivo disciplined men in the Cuban than in the Spanish army in Cuba. U also expresses the opiniou that no number of men that Spain can send can possibly a fleet the tne result or tne comesi. "I've been through that wicket, Charley." "I don't think you have, sweetmeats." "Indeed, I have.'; "No, you haven't." "I did." "You didn't;" and then a mallet sails over the fence, and a pull back twitches furiously over the greet, sward and disappears into tho house, mid everything every-thing is as quiet without as though peace was the sovereign power on earth. A Milford, N.IL, clergyman visiting visit-ing a neighboring lown, entered a drug store and, among other purchases, pur-chases, procured ten cents worth ol paregoric. "Von are -i clergyman, ain't you," asked the polite clerk, who observed his ministerial bearing. "I am, responded tne clergyman. "In that case," contiuutd lho clerk, "the para oric will be eight cents, as we make all clergymen a discount." |