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Show ! MAIL ITEMS. Several well known gentlemen of ! New York city tendered Mr. Longfellow Long-fellow a complimentary banquet on the occasion of his 70th birthday, but he declined the honor. An English critic says that tiie habit of dresaing children for fancy bdl and concert exhibitions induces in the children a foolish conceit and jri immoral tone of ideas. The Montana legislature has 'h'mged die name of the Little Big Horn river to Custer river, in memory mem-ory of the brave cavalry leader who met his death on ita bankB. A Newton. Conn., youth who haB just ceased his visits to a young lady ol E tsl Bridgeport, finds himself sued by the girl's mother for $00 for food and kerosene oil. The case is coming to trial, too. So dull is bu?iness in Washington that the district marshal has some 1 300 letters from people desiring to . serve as jurors so as to support their families, no other employment being open to them. Too colored Jubilee singers have had a riot in London, Out., the cashier and one of tho musicians quarrelling about tho disposition of the funds, bowie knivea being drawn and the singer stabbed. Fall River, Massachusetts, is overflowing over-flowing with orders from South America. Amer-ica. An aeont rneentlv Rent rinwn there to open a market for American cottons has had success, and reports the way clear for trade. The town of Monroe, Orange county, is a bad one for unmarried men during leap years. Within a circle of ton miles thero are sixty widows and 200 single ladies, and only twelve widowers and fifty single meu. All the books used iu Minnesota public schools during the next fifteon years are to be bought of a St. Paul dealtr, who contracts to sell them at about half tiie present retail prices, and submit them to revision every five years. A man in t'ic tup story of a Chicago Chi-cago hotel attracted a crowd of pedestrians pe-destrians a huudred feet below by waving a pillow case and shouting: "Some of you fellows go to the office and tell them to send me up a cojk-tiil." cojk-tiil." His bell was broken. Messrs. Moody and Sankey receive no pay for their uervicts in Boston. Mr. Moody and bis family are the guests of Mr. Henry F. Duraut, a rich lawyer, and Mr. Sankey is enter-taineii enter-taineii atthe Hotel Brunswick free of cost, x ho necessities of the great reyivalidta in other respects are, it is said, supplied by generous friends in Chicago. |