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Show VARIETIES. The MennoniU-s are about to est b-lish b-lish a publishing house at Eikhart. It is now understood that one stamp cannot sell three barrels of whi-ky C"ttri..--Ji'i!rnu!. Why is a sheet of postage mamps like distant relations ? Hecausn iney '.arc only flight i connected. Jl:1c KnowicH of Montana lia- dc-ici dc-ici lid that poker is a gameoi chance, and must pay a license as such. I The navy department is about l ; make experiments with carbonic acid J .is, as a motive power for war ves-eis. .; An enterprising English shnvmftn j io exhibiting Brighum Young and hi 1 'liiiiiy-aix wivc"a!l for six pence a ticket. There is no place at this s ihmi of the year wherein a dog ctn Umneo around io satisfactorily aa . newly-laid-out garden-bed. The business of the patent office this ycir is larper than ever before. The receipts hut month exceeded the .expendilnves by $14,500. Louis G'obe: From present ap-pr.'vancrs, ap-pr.'vancrs, th1 next appe d that will Cii'uc from the weal will be in behalf of t.ie black Hill euRcrcrs. Two living specimens of the palw-ontoloyical palw-ontoloyical moa, long supposed to have been extinct, are reported to be on their way from New Zealand. The mastodon that w.is discovered a few months since near Hamilton, Canada, has just been seized and sold bv the sheriff for non-payment of taxes. Upon learning that a man out west is organizing nienback clubs, an Indiana editor remarks that he'll take a dozen or two, provided tho price isn't too high. A method of making glass so hard and unyielding that it can neither be bent or broken, and may be plunged, red hot, into cold water without injury, inju-ry, has recently been discovered. After waiting four years, a Michi- j gan lover finally popped tho question, and the girl answered, "Of course I'll have you. Why, you fool you, we could have been married three years ago." On a recent Sunday a large number num-ber of the pulpits in Baltimore were filial by ladies, who aro said to' have expounded divine truth with great acceptance on the part of tho congregation. congre-gation. Anions the presents at a wa.den wedding in Allentuwn, Pa,, recently, was an immense cake. This was reserved re-served for the last; and when they came to cut it, they founel it was only a cheese box covered with icing. General Spinner has received a salary sal-ary of $ti,000 a year for fourteen years. His expenses have not been as great as those of any of the women who do the work without any special credit, and who receire $900 a year. If the seat uf every carpet-bagger who disgraced the last congress could be filled with a confederate general in the next, the moral and the political atmosphere in the capitol would be improvetl beyond all measure. meas-ure. Sun. Judge Woodward, of Pennsylvania, who died at Rome recently, was noted I as a strong peace man during the late I war. In IStil he delivered a decision pronouncing the "draft law," uncon-Istilutional, uncon-Istilutional, an act for which he received re-ceived the democratic nomination for the governorship, but was defeated by Curtin. The compulsory education act is j not a success in Now York, the superintendents super-intendents of truancy recently allowing al-lowing a judgment to go against them by default, in a case of tho im-! im-! prisonment of a b iy who was kept at home by his sick father to attend to i his wants, anil who brought a suit ; against them, intending to test the' ( constitutionality of the law, j A young lady in Milwaukee undertook under-took to climb a ladder that had been jloft standing againt tho side of a ; house, but heio.-e she had gone a quarter o tho way up quite a crowd , assembted.Derceiving whichshe began ;at once to devfcencf, observing with I much feeling: "Well, now, there ain't going to be no free circus hero 'this afternoon, you bet." Brooklyn Anjits. |