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Show CLIPPED and CONDENSED. : The sum of $55,000 in gold coin was sent from San Bernandino to San Francisco Fran-cisco by mail a i'ow days ago as second-class matter at 1 cent an ounce. An insurance company took a risk ou tho coin and tho bank saved $130 by using the mail. J. Edwards, of Hume, Fauquier county, Va., was playing with his brothers broth-ers when one of them threw a grain of corn into his mouth, which lodged iu his windpipe. Two doctors were summoned, sum-moned, but not in time to save his life, as he died in two hours. The tomato, which was pronounced by the first Euglish subjeet who tasted one not many years ago, its "not altogether alto-gether nasty," has at last conquered England. His reported by tho celebrated cele-brated nurseryman, Volteh, to be yearly increasing in popularity. The recent persecution of the Jews in Vienna became so dangerous to all shopkeepers that tho city recently appeared ap-peared covered with such signs as "I am a Christian Tradesman;" "Christian Brandy Shop-," "Christian Choeso-mouhcr;" Choeso-mouhcr;" "Christian Old Clothes Shop." Wo may not produce tho greatest philosophers or theologians, but we cau claim tho proud distinction of using the most soap. For every 100 pounds used in the Uuitsd States, England uses 85; Germany, 83; France, $,"; Sweden, 70; Italy, a7; Bulgaria, 85, anil Mexico, 27. A family living near La Grange, forty miles from Louisville, Kv., aro sii-k with what, the doctors i-all "tornado poisoning," and oue of the victims died and two are in a precarious condition. The physicians claim that the germs of the disease were borue on the late tornado tor-nado from some infected district, probably prob-ably hundreds of miles away. A bible has just been rediscovered in Hhe Vatican library which is in Hebrew. It is supposed to bo the oldest in tho world, and is valued at $100,000. It is is so weighty that it requires two nieu to lift, it, the binding being in heavy metal; In the year 1512 the Jews of Venice offered Pope Julius JI. its weight in gold for it, but, though he was tmaueially hard up just then, he refused re-fused the tier. - |