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Show VARIETIES. Now York's free baths were pat- i rouized by 71,620 bathers lost week. I Boston used 2,000 quarts of ice cream a day during the heated season. The total length of railroads in Colorado Col-orado is now 660 mileB. A considerable consider-able proportion of this mileage is narrow nar-row gauge. There are fifty-five saw-mills in Washington territory that cost $021,-1 500 and cut about 1,000,000 leet of lumber per day. The hailstones which fall in Six roila canon, Nevada, during the recent re-cent storm, killed all the chickens which wore not under shelter. Gail Hamilton, who hns published sevfiu or. eight volumes, has not, it is Isaid, earned more than $7,000 or .$8,000 from all her literary labors. Ex-United States Senator Truman Smith, who read tho Declaration of ' Litispendence at Litchfield, Conn., ion tbe Fourth of July, read it at the Bamc place 6fty years ago. There s a baby, two weeks old, in iVassar, Mich., wbich weighs only lone pound and a half. Its mother's ; wedding ring will easily pass over the child:s baud and up to tbe shoulder. Tbe California theatre (McCul-lough's) (McCul-lough's) is to be closed and sold to the government for a postofhee, and probanly the yoking tragedian will have the management of Wade's opera house The statue of the lato Wm. H. Sewaid, to be erected in New York, will be placed at tbe southwest corner of Madison park, fronting Broadway and Fifth avenue. The pedestal ia ot , Italian marblo and weighs sixteen i tons. Tho statuo, wbich is a coloi-1 coloi-1 sal bronze, will cost $25,000. |