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Show VARIETIES. A bunt of Chariot. Frnc'ia Adams haa beau made by hid son, John Adams. A mule pursued a deer in Stanton, Neb., fulled it witb a kick, and pawed it to death. Governor and Mrs. Horatio Seymour are travelling through northern Now York in a private carriage. A young woman fell dead in New York the other day, Irom heart dis- eaae, brought on uy Uui lacing. Mr. Nathaniel Emerson hau lived on the aama farm in Chelsea, Vt., ever since he was born 71 years. There are 20,000 vagabond children in Philadelphia who never enter a school-door, says the Philadelphia Press. Moody, the revivaliBt, being asked if a man could chew tobacco and etill be a Christian, replied: "Yes, a filthy one." The SpriDgfield Republican very justly says that any system of outlawing out-lawing JewB in this country cannot he popular. A New York school teacher recently re-cently spat on the head of two of her I pupils and threatened to knock their damned hen da ofl. A tramp wns recently let out of a grain car at Fitchburg, Mass., having come all the way from Chicago by this meana of conveyance. Boya are engaged by farmers in the northern and western portions of the state of New York to pick potato bugs at five cents a hundred. Port wine is very little drank now in Jngiona, except as a ionic, anu the consumption of French wine is now not far from double that of Portugal. Por-tugal. The total value of Bilk goods manufactured manu-factured in the United States during 1 1876, was $26,593,103. ThiB great interest has grown up within the last few years. Mr. Wharton, the new United States marshal fur Louisiana, hae already al-ready received more than 400 applications appli-cations for two permanent positions at his disposal. The Democratic editors of Mississippi Mississ-ippi held a meeting a few day ago, and passed a resolution in favor ol opposing any attempt to form a new nai-tu In (lift tntfi. The Boston Advertiser aay;t: "Nothing "No-thing can be more exasperating to civilly disposed people in health than a lusilade of fire crackers, and for the sick it ie unspeakable torture." A twenty-four pound turtle, recently recent-ly captured near Norfolk, Conn., was strong enough to move about from place to place while bearing on its back a man weighing 200 pounds. The New Y'ork Herald goes for Brigham Young and his followers as if they were "Swamp Angels." Utah will he devastated when the Herald turns her wild animals loose at the Mormons. llhinobeck Gazette. A youth refused to lake a pill. His crafty mother thereupon secretly placed the pill in a preserved pear aud gave it to him. Presently she asked: "Tom Imvc you eaten thr pear?" Ho replied; "Yes, mother; all but the seeds." In Russia the commoD cockroach is a favorite popular remedy for dropjy. Dr. P. Begomolow, ol St Petersburg, has lately examined its efiecti in niuc cases Bright's disease, heart diaense. aud other affections accompanied with severe dropsy, and in all the result was the same. Torpedo balloons arc proposed. The idea is to float the balloons over the enemy, and drop the torpedo by means of electricity Bent over a wire. it is calculated that a city could be totally destroyed in this way by dropping drop-ping a sumcimt quantity of nitroglycerine. nitro-glycerine. A Boston merchant, on a recent return trip, was considerably im pressed by the earnestness of a German Ger-man passenger. "America," saii the returning Teuton, "is dor best coundry in the vorld. I had lived dero more as den years, and failed Tive dimes, aud now I goes home to lif mit a fortune and my vamily." |