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Show INKLLXtiS. As for Bessie, the wonder ia they didn't Turner out. Mr. Humpden, an Englishman, recently lost $2,o00 in a bet that the earth was Mat. An entire family in Harrison, Ohio, has been made insane by a stroke of lightning, which hit their houso. At the age of 52 Bonner has accumulated accu-mulated a miihon of dollars from the Ledger. Wholesale advertising did it. " Honest Davy," a once celebrated PitLsburg trotter, died the other day. He had a record of 2:34, which was first-class in his day, Ked used on a railroad signifies danger, and says stop. It should be so construed when displayed on a man's nose. It is generally understood that the capital of the United States will be removed to Long Branch, N. J., on or about the 1st o( July. Mrs. AriabGoss died at Amherst, X, H., on Saturday morning, aged 105 years 1 month and 19 days. She was the oldest person in the State. An attendant at a spiritual seance in Fairhaven, Vt., seized the materialized ma-terialized form of his grandmother, and she turned out to be the medium in disguise. A petition was recently presented to the Massachusetts legislature, asking ask-ing that the sentence ot banishment against Roger Williams, passed in 1045, be revoked. Mark Twain says: "To the poor whites along the Mississippi river chills are a merciful provision of Providence, enabling them to take exercise without exertion." A twelve-year-old girl is on trial in Brownsville, Tenn., for the motiveless motive-less killing of three children. She fed them rat poison, "just to Bee them die," as she explains. If there is one thing which reconciles recon-ciles the people ol Pennsylvania to capital punishment, says tho Philadelphia Phila-delphia Times, it is the neatness with which it is executed by our sheriffs. A Chinaman, calling himself Dr. Ah King, who married under extremely ex-tremely gorgeous circumstances a Miss Morris, daughter of one of the principal citizens of Lansingbure, New York, the other day, is now discovered dis-covered to have another Caucasian wife living, in the person of Miss Madison, of Utica, in the same state. "Gath " writes to the Philadelphia Times that Bessie Turner is a redheaded, red-headed, thin girl, fond of notoriety, and with too little natural taste to discriminate over the question of her own body's violation. Nothing happened hap-pened to her, according to her own story, except solicitation, but she acts as if she was sorry she could not tes-i tes-i tify to more than that. |