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Show MAIL SEWS ITEMS. The Canadian Pacific railway surveys sur-veys have coat $3,139,615 and thirty-four thirty-four Uvea. In vetoing the Hooeac tunnel bill Gov. Rico says that the tunnel has already coat Massachusetts $18,000,-000. $18,000,-000. Victor Emanuel now receives a salary of $2,850,000. The parliament parlia-ment had to raise it in order ta pay off his debts. When a boy, Fletcher, the Philadelphia Phila-delphia murderer who was hanged last week, used to amuse himself in cutting of! the tails of pigs. The New Hampshire state prison contains 160 convicts, and the earnings earn-ings of the year just closed exceed the expenditures by over $8,000. Russia does not want English nurses in her army, and the Turks have ao little respect for women that English nurses are practically ruled out. Thirty-three states have made laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals. ani-mals. The states that have not are Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nebraska Ne-braska and Colorado. Mr. Jefferson Dais has won a Buit. The Brierfield estate in Mississippi is decided to belong to him, although bis brother, Joseph E. Davis, never I conveyed to him the title. Cora Pearl, the dethroned queen cl the Parisian demi monde, cleared $95,000 by the recent auction of her household goods. She had Bbrewdly laid in a supply of cheap bric-a brae, which were bought at fabulous prices.! Mrs. A. T. Stewart's gift to Garden city, the new city Jounded by her late husband, will be a. cathedral, to cost about $700,000. The total expenditures expendit-ures for the building and the permanent perma-nent endowment for it will be in the neighborhood of a million and a half of dollars. In consideration of $100 cash, Walter Wal-ter VVentworth, a variety performer, now in good health, in Cincinnati, has drawn up a paper bequeathing hie body after death to Dr. H. L. Wilder for the purpose of dissection, Wilder agreeing to wire and set up the skeleton in a case in his private office in such a manner as to bo at any timeaxhibited to Wentworlh'a "many professional friends." Early Ripes. The abaenco of I authority and relaxation of diacipline atlects girls, of course, as well ae boys, but differently, Their license of speech and action is a constant marvel to the high class Englishmen who come to this country. "Mamma," "Mam-ma," said a miss of ten summers the other day to her mother (one ol the most beautiful and elegant women in New York society), after a serious and critical examination of the shape of her head and its pose upon her neck, "Mamma, you have an exceedingly well-shaped bead. I think you might have been quite a bright woman if you had tried." Another little girl astonished a gentleman gen-tleman visitor by asking him what he thought of Cleopatra, adding that aha "did not like Story'a statute of Cleopatra because it was Egyptian, and it ought to have been Greek, foi Cleopatra was a daughter of the Ptolemies," aud when the gentleman gentle-man asked her what was hor special motive for asking the question, Bhe replied, "Nothing, only she thought Cleopatra was a very curious and interesting in-teresting person because she married her own brothers, and she was going to write a composition about her." Now York Letter. |