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Show VARIETIES. TijCT-o nre alioat G,OK) prodacin-oil prodacin-oil wells in J'ennylvaoia, &nd the daily average ol praiuction ia 5.t3 barrels. Tb.j coLlou prim mills of Fall river are now producing o.iioO.OUO yarda a week, o:i which there id a prudl ol one cent a yard. Lnni;fH!ow received from Mr. Bonner Bon-ner iJ.UUOas the price of "The Hanging Hang-ing ot the Crane," the poem tilling about one column of the Ledger. Eugenie will not live at Chistllmrst much in lulure. Slio ia noing to 'Hoin to try to get a royal wife fur her eon, who ia to ofler hid military services ser-vices lo the cz.ir. Horatio Seymour's health ia 80 much broken that he does not often leave homo, and hia physicians oh-ject oh-ject to any lahor on hia part, and particularly par-ticularly to puhlic Bpeaking. ine ponco ana constaouiary rorces of all England and Wales, with a population of about 24,000,000 souls, numbered at the date of the last official return 29.4G0 men, or one for every 812 of the population. Tbo coin value of the iniporfa into tli is country laat December was $1)2,-350,500, $1)2,-350,500, while the domestic exports, reduced to a coin basis, amount to $71,205,800, to winch must be added $1,700,000 for foreign goods ro-e.t-ported. The great town of Nottingham, i England, ia establishing a euwuge 1 farm, and the - waters of the Trent will no longer be polluted. New York casts into tho sea millions of dollars which might make wastea a garden. It ia almost lime that some vigorous vigor-ous man should lake hold of the ro ligious newspapers and shake the .swindling advertisements out of them. There 13 hardly an orthodox organ in the country which dots not contain somo covered bait cast out to catch the foolish good. John lsrit-lil i cn.no t),!. vne.u tr ' speak and vote for tho bill to abolish the death penalty. Ho considers the . hanging laws unchristian and unphil- osophical, and ia of opinion that with ' a different modo of punishment (what mode is not indicated) there would be fewer murders. A novel featuro of the ball of the telegraphers of Chicago on the 12th, was the music for tho dance, which was furnished in Milwaukee.and transmitted trans-mitted by wire by means of the telephone. tele-phone. The wires were also run into several newspaper oflices, and the music furnished amusement for numerous nu-merous citizens unablo to hear it in tho ballroom. An editor once applied at tho door of Hades tor admission. "Well, sir," replied his aable majesty, "we let one I of your profession in here many years ago, and lie kept up a continual row with his former delinquent eubscrib ers, and aa we have more of that class of persona hero than any other, we Lnvo passed a law prohibiting the. admission of editors." ' |