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Show VARIOUS ITEMS. Ninety-one niilliona f postAl cardB were used last year, repreenting an incom! of nine hundred and ten thousand dollars. There is said to be nearly one hun-drrd hun-drrd majority in the house in favor of inflation, or, at least, strongly opposed op-posed to any contraction of the currency. cur-rency. A man in New Jersey hod not heen to church for twenty years. Last Sunday he went, had his pocket picked of $35, and is now a pronounced pro-nounced heathen. Only last week the grand jury indicted in-dicted 100" persons for burglary in Chicago, and murder rases are about aafrequeot as in New York. Mr. Tal-mageout Tal-mageout to go there and convert the heathen. The New York Mail tells about a man who is hunting fur a church with an amiable rector who will allow al-low him to have colored silk banners ban-ners hung from the gallery at his wedding. Minneapolis, Minn., has just witnessed wit-nessed the inception ofa new journalistic journal-istic venture in the shape cf a daily papr printed on a postal card. This miniature sheet bears the name of the "Post Baby." Tht Chicago Inter-Ocean computes the average wear and tear and loss of paper money at over one per cent, per annum, which on the $S09,000,-000 $S09,000,-000 of money in this cnntry for ten years would amount to $80,000,000 or $90,000,000. There are 112 different materials in Massachusetts from all oi paper which can be produced. Among ihelist are enumerated asparagus, beet root, -cabbage stumps, frog spittle, hop vine,borneU' nests. lily-of-the-valley, leather cuttings, mummy cloth, saw- duet, thistles, and willow twigs. A little boy was recently presented -j with a toy trumpet, to which he be- I came greatly attached. One night when he wan about to be put in his cu, nun wins reauy to saj prayers, he handed the trumpet tc his grandmother, saving, "Here, grandma, you blow while I pray." Queen Victoria is said to be writing writ-ing a book on ' "Marriage, Children and Family Lile." If she has anything any-thing to say that will warn the young readers of the New York , ledger, aha Bhould out with it at once; but if she only wanta to give her plans for spanking, scolding and lecturing, we can all wait. W'e give our washerwoman notice that hereafter we want our own clothes. Last Sunday we put on another an-other fellow's shirt, but could not wear , it at aU, It was all ruffled around the top and looked real handsome, hand-some, but there was no place for the collar, and it hadn't any boiom, though we are hoimd to say therawas plenty of room for one. Yes, it was a handsome shirt, bat we don't have ours made that way. Max. Adeler. Every now and then we hear of some physician or other recommending recommend-ing to a patient some well-known kind of drink or fbqd to "get faton." Firs; it is milk, then hominy, then this and then that. Now it is oatmeal. oat-meal. Everv serawnv firl in aviott? (and the number 555,550,072) U now eating huge quantities of oatmeal two and three times a day, for the news has spread that oatmed is conducive con-ducive to flesh. "Eat and be merry for this is my daughter who wa scrawny and is now fat again," says the prophet Iiayer. New York Mail. |