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Show ISKLlXtiS. A Newport dining room will boast $'.'J,0OO worth of Italian Widntit. j Iinuiir.itii.in frum Ireland to this cum try Vr::r W:ld lti.'JL'i !t.s ti::tn 'm 17:1. A wi'rmui w:;s ri'fi'iitly hitluI for solliisi; sonit culortil iitoplc a Bojtun liquid w.in.iiilitl t.) ;ii.ik.- tiu'in white. Captain E;ul hiss txniniucJ tho jetty gruuiul at the month of ihe Mi&.-U.-ij.i, Aiiii ihiiiks in twelve muiHiia he will h i ve twenty feet of water there. The gruihoppers of Nebraska have found a foeman worthy of their steel (or steal). It is a small red bug which is attackini; them and slaughtering tlicm hv the million. That Ls a yuod bu-. The Omaha Herald says: Representatives Repre-sentatives of the Iowa pool Hues here are iu a jolly row about cutting nUes. It is said that the C. and N. V. carried car-ried a number ol .Mormon missionaries missionar-ies to Chicago for $0.50 each. A petrified rattlesnake, measuring ten fee:, with twenty-live rattles, has just been found in a ccal mine thirty feet below the surlaee in Alton, 111. The formation is said to bo pei lect, and represents a snake in the act of creeping. A man was neently ai rested in Baltimore, who, while in a state ot drunkenness, pulled his dead wife Irom the bed on which she had been prepared for tho grave, and stripped the clothing Ironi her body, rudely voci lb rating, "She touldn'tplay no 'possum with him." "Yes, sir," yelled a preacher iu a Dakota church one Sunday morning, "there's more lyinjr and swearing and general deviltry to the square inch in this here town than in all the rest of the American cuttutry;" and then the congregation got up and dumped the preacher out of the window. Grc.tt excitement was caused in a rich family in New York by the unaccountable un-accountable disappearance of a gold snuff box, richly set with brilliants, and equal satisfaction when ft young gentleman ol six acknowledged that he had utilized it as a coitin, and buried it with his pet canary in the garaen. I A New York poultry dealer, to test the relative prinluotiveness of ducks and hens, selected three of each, all hatched in Eebiuary and suitably fed. In the following autu.nn the ducks laid '2-5 eggs, the liens none. In February the laying season began, and up to August the total number ol eggs bid by the liens was 257, or eighty-six eaeh, and o'Jo, or lul each for the ducks. At Orange, N. Y.,Ebenezer Green, over 70 years of aye, in his dotage aud nearly blind, was frequently followed fol-lowed in the street and tormented by the boys. He was recently beirjg followed by a crowd of boys in this manner, when the old man turned and otruck wildly at his tormentors with a stick which he carried. He struck one of the buys, named Put-rick Put-rick Welsh, on the head, fracturing his skull and causing iiis death within a few days. Turn Ne. o. Moin.uia, had married one yirl, seduced annU.er, and ran oil' with slid another, nil from the same family, and had been captured by the old man. Both had revolvers and knives, and as they walked along the prairie together there was no talk of remorse, contrition, or ragged edges. Neither did Tom unbutton his shirt and say, "You would have been a better man in my pl-irv.-'' No; there was none of that. There was only the plaintive voice of the old man yelling as they jumped the hummock: "'Ye'vegot to s'port 'em all," Tom Nye, or out goes your glim." |