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Show MAIL ITEMS. There arc 74,000 dogs rcgiatcred in Paris. "The Great Almost" is what tboy call Mr. Tilden now. The constitutional convention of Georgia has made lobbying a crime, Katie Pane, a 10 year-old San Francisco girl, accidentally ehot and killed herself while playing. Loudon society having lost Gen. Grant, has instantly taken up with a new lion, the khan of Kashgar. The Paris commune ia not dead, but maintains a Becret organization, recruited from the worst elements of society. Horna fiend proposed to put down the riota by dia'.ributing a car load ot greeu peaches and watermelons among the rioters. During July there were thirty-two failures reported in New York city, with liabilities aggregating $2,071,488 and as;ets $033,99. Tho Chineao threaten to Btop the sale of tea, lire-crackers and fans to this country if tho CaliforuiauB don't atop peraecutiug them. The pasa of Therrnopyla is five miles long and 6fly yards wide at iu uarrowest part, where Leouidas and his 300 Spartan? were slain. Russia has the last six months exported ex-ported wheat to the value ol over $13,000,000, against wheat to the value of $8,000,000 for the corresponding corres-ponding period of last year. Of a handful of Bilver halves aud Quarters, from one quarter to one-third one-third will now be found to have been coined before 1800. Where have they been traveling in the meantime? mean-time? Four parties are now engaged in regular topographical aud geological work in various portions of Wyoming and Idaho. Thirty thousand square miles of area have been alioted to them for this season's work. On a Califarnia ranch, recently, wheat which was standing in the ear at a quarter before 5 in the morning was eaten as biscuit at a quarter before 7, having been cut, threshed, grouud ami baked in two hours. A iot of alreet urchins paraded the streets of St. Lguis one day last week with a lin pan by way of a drum, and a huge paper banner bearing the in-acriplion: in-acriplion: "We don't waul bread. We want cake and p;c, or blood!" Stanley Matthews promised a Cleveland Cleve-land mob an industrial bureau at Washington, but tho ciowd said it would lake too long to establish it and demanded greenbacks. It was the old story of throwing a sloue at the child who asked bread. In Oregon a man has to take out a licei.s1, winch e s'.s him five dollars a year, permitting sa'o m keepers and others to sell him drink-i. And wbon a ma. s wife taken away bis license in the morning and hides it, ho has to go dry as a bono all day. One of the latest Yankeo ideas ia a Turkish bath on wheels. It ia a car that can run behind the sleeping coaches of an express) train. It has a drawing room, a Russian and phi', g ! bath, shampooing rooms, and all the other accommodations of a Turkish bath house. The tempera lure of the rooms varies from SO do-' do-' Kn-es li 100 degree, and tho compartments com-partments are lighted from the 1 oof with blue glass. Tom ve Hers can bathe i as welTae eat, drink aud sleep on tho ' rail. |