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Show VARIOUS ITE3IS. I The on'y lottery c.hivrn i-i South Carolina that had n charier Irom the state has been chwed. Many of the s eq in the Ar'aona mountains are dying- Tho excessive diought is the cause assignal. Tho census gave Paris, in 1176, l.DSS.SL'G inhabitants. Toe number by December, 1S77, will reach 2,000,-0UQ. 2,000,-0UQ. Owing to depredations by sharks oil" Melbourne, Australia, tho govern ment (.tiered a reward for their capture cap-ture and 3,000 wito caught fie first eek. I A wick-d man killed himself in 'tho lowest level of a Nevada mine, 'and the account ways "Thus h'lB alleged soul was saved over half mile of transportation." ! Col. Robert Ingeraolt while ia Cali- I fornialant month, had bis faith in tho story of David and Goliab refreshed by the spectacle of a man weighing 2;j0 pounds hotly pursued by an exasperated ex-asperated bumble bee. The Baroness Burdett-Coutta has offered, through the society for the protection of animals from cruelty, to give prizes for essays on kindness tn animals, tu be written in the whooU in Derby by buys and girls. Edward Everett Hale suggest 8 a "eocisty for the rights or man," which should stand by its members and protect any man in his rights to work at any trade he might choose and at any wages he might choose. A Kan Francisco huckster bought a mule by nudum fur $140. After trying lor three days to put its harness har-ness on from a second otnry window, tho owner retold it for $14, on long time, and uudcr the title of "Sara, the High Kbkt r." A man who could not read was dis-irit'Uting dis-irit'Uting handbills of drinking saloon. Hi; put do wn hts bundle and went to dinner. In his absence a tompcrance advo ate substituted temperance tem-perance tracts lor tho handbills, and during the rest of the day the saloon's business was not helped, if not hurt. The experiment of slaughtering cattle by means of dynamite was recently tried at Dudley, England, with marked success, Small charges of dynamite were fastened on their foreheads and exploded by an. electric elec-tric shock. The animals.two disabled horses and a donkoy, were instantly killed, by the explosion, Buffering a comparatively painless death. |