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Show NATURAL INCIDENTS- Senator David D.ivib' oxnct weight on the 9;h instant, was 323 pounds. Fifty of the 104 locomotives destroyed de-stroyed by the Pittsburg firu were sent to the foundries as scrap iron. A big rat invaded a mocking bird'et cage in Richmond, Va., aud the valiant val-iant bird killed him. A Mr. Hume is establishing a fish propagating establishment, on Rogue river, in Oregon, at his own exueuse,. and will this year expend $10,000 upon up-on it. Among tho.useful inventions ol the present season ia a picnic basket, iu which iB a small place for ice. Around this refrigerating compartment the "goodies" are placed. A traveling circus exhibits a borBe that has no hair, mane or tail. But it is not true that an opposiion concern con-cern wishes to exhibit some hair, mane and tail that has no horse. General N. P. Banks 1ms made affidavit denying the charges of John Q. Thompson ol adultery with bis wife. Privately, he say?, in relation to the charges: "There is not a word of truth so far as I am concerned." Recently, while the president was at tbe Washington Bchuetzenfeat, a factotum, wishing to do the handsome hand-some thing, said: ''Mr. President, 1 vos glat you komed. Ve yoost os keepin' flomewateron iceloryou ehl" St. Louis Times. Mr. M. McNulty of San Francisco, lost his beloved wife and two beloved children, aud in his grief as a witness testified, "took hold ot a Cninaman to throw hiro into the bay, to keep up hiB courage, like." The grief-stricken grief-stricken husband and futher was fined $150. A South Carolina woman of rt fino-mrut fino-mrut and former wealth has been supporting herselt and two children on a one acre farm. They came near to starvation, however, and yfere clothed in patchwork. Tho facts got into the newspapers, and money has been liberally subscribed for her. A Bisnnirck s",eno: The very children child-ren seemed touched by the atmosphere atmos-phere of the place, A little boy, not three years old, iid to a gentleman calling upon his father, "Is your father dead?" The gentleman answered an-swered in the athrmative, and the youngster continued, "Did he drink whisky or get killed?" It is Baid that Barnum has mnde arrangeoients for the purchase of t-fiplicus of all the most interesting features of Madame Tussaud's waxwork wax-work exhibition, with tho viow ol letting up a similar show in New York. Report suys that the price paid by tbe great showman is $15,-000. $15,-000. James Gordon Bennett hug been in London again on one of his flying visits. He seldom gives more than three or four days at ouce U London, aud this occasion wm no txvsption to the rule. It is understood that he has no intention of returning at present to the United Stales, thinkim; Paris is a very good place from which to odit his paper. In attempting to ancend Freenoutis peak at tbe head of the Sweetwater river on the "3d of June, A. D. Wilson, Wil-son, of Prof. Iiayden's geological exploring ex-ploring expedition, encountered an itnmeuse snow field. The snow was of great depth and the lakes were frozen solidly. The boots of the party became frozen on their feet, and Mr. Wilson in charge of tliH parly, came very near freezing one of his hands. Anderson, the New Haven murderer, mur-derer, who is awaiting a new trial, is very fond ot a little mouse which be caught in his cell. When he holds a string iu bis fingers, and in broken English aks his little friend to mount like a sailor, the mouse lays bold of the string and climbs to bis hand. Tbe mouse also sits on her bind legs on a teacup, and crawling through his mustache and on bis nose makes a graceful bow and jumps from head to hand. |