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Show uow seldom appears. $10,000 being the price-demanded "and secured in advance for each performance. -A young couple of Bradvsville, Ohio, were married twice iu two'davs. Thev ran away from homo on account of the objections of their parents, ami were married ly a squire at Aberdeen, Ohio, hut fearing the inarrisigo was illegal they returned home ami the next morning morn-ing the ceremony was again performed by a local squire. SuiitaCruzhasahur.se that is lift v-three v-three years old. Ho came to California m 1848 with William Haudlev. and was called an old horse then. 'For manv years Jerry worked iu thy brewery, but was turned out to rest last year." His favorite food is the refuse 'malt from tho still, and he does not disdain tj wash it down with a bucket of warm beer. WilliamMusoil, of Bluehill village. Me., tbinkshe has a cold mine on" hij farm. Ho keeps ducks uud tho ducks spend most of their time iu a certain newly-deepened pool of water not lV.r from tint farm house. Several ducks killed this winter- have had hits of gold in their crops, and William thinks this rich food comes from the pool, so he is going to digjt out this fall. In New York u life insurance company com-pany has lent SU0,0W) to a church, and the church has had the lives of a number num-ber of its members insured in favor of itself. The life insurance company has agreed, every lime nun of the member v ho is thus insured dies, to reduce the debt of the church by the amount of his policy. Every lime the church has a funeral of one of these it lops off a slice of debt; in other words, members' mid debt disappear together. A Pole named Ciurbowski, who wai thought to be a pauper, and had just died of inihieua at the Chnrilo hospital in Paris, has left IWOO.OUO for founding in Paris a polyglot gazette, $40,000 for erecting a monument in Paris to testify the gratitude, of the Poles to France, and a. largo sum for continuing the Polish diclionurv begun by Lind. There are other legacies ainoiiuting to $70,000, and more assets it turns out than will suffice to pay thesu different bequests. CMI'I'KI) AND rOMJKNSEI. Pom Pedro wants to return lo Hrazil, but there is one trouble: Brazil does not want Doin Pedro. The latest turnout of the Onn.-tn emperor em-peror is ail open carriage drawn by four 'while Hungarian stallions. Europe is a soldier ridden country. Many non-producers have a tendency to make, times hard for the laborers. ' A surveyor gies out this rule: Measure 290 feet on each sido and you will have a square acre within an inch. The socialist have quite a parlv in Italy. They w ill Iuia e thirty candidates iu tne field' at the coming election. . There are fears since the retirement of Bismarck that the ship -of state in Germany is sailing without a pilot. There are a good many women in Chicago who seem to be legally inclined. in-clined. Thirty-seven women there have been admitted to the bar. What is really needed now is a watch main spring that w ill not break. There is a eliauge here for inventive genius to distingusn itself. Sarah Bernhardt is studying for the character of Cleopatra. She is a little too tall, but otherwise will make a very good "Serpent of the Nile." Sardon, the French dramatist, was at one lime a professor of mathematics. But ho lias done better as a playwright. Fame .and fortune both wail for him now. Of tho inmates of the penitentiary of the Empire state, nearly two-thirds are from New York. ' It is a wicked city aud abounds iu the criminal classes. In a back district iu Manitoba there is in the tax books this entry, referring to some crown lauds: "Owner, Vic toria; oceujiatian, queen; residence, EuKlaud." Tho czar of Russia indulges in hypodermic hypo-dermic injections of morphia. This is safer than any kiml of injections of dynamite. dy-namite. The hens of Canada seem to be doing do-ing a pretty good business. Tho United Uni-ted Stales bought over two million dollars dol-lars worth of eggs from the queen's do-miuiuti do-miuiuti last year. Some one has tried to lake the census of the habitual opium eaters of the United States. lie figures thu number up to be (500.000, more than half of them being womeu. Mr. Edward Bellamy is to be editor-in-chief of the Nationalist. The announcement an-nouncement was made in the March number of the magazine, and it is expected ex-pected to give a great impetus lo its cause. When Prof. Max Midler went to England Eng-land a few years ago he knew no English. Eng-lish. Kow'he is one of tho greatest linguists lin-guists in the world. Vii this branch of knowledge he is authority. Aptness and study did it. Mr. R. I. Young bro'tght to the office of the Press at Middletown, Pa., a glass of apple butter that was made by his mother's grandmother in the year lHiO, making it" sixty-four years old. It is a little tart. Europeans are becoming alarmed overstatements that another epidemic, also of the "ncro malady" kind, is following fol-lowing in the wake of the influenza. It has its home in southern regions, and its symptoms are a feeling of paralysis iu tne limbs and a tendency to lethargic lethar-gic sleep. A Bridgeport Conn., newspaper recently rec-ently printed the following advertisement: advertise-ment: "(,'hu Fung would likee smally nice Melican lady. .She no have to work, as Chu Fong got lot of money. Chit Foiig will do the washce and the cookee; wife she can dress up every day. Prize, $10 for best girl. Chu Fong." Charles Ness, of Searsmont, Me., w ho was partially blind for tweuty-five years from a bad fall received during the war, fell while carrying a pail of milk into the house one day last week and again struck the back of his head heavily uu tho iee. Strange to say, his eyesight has been restored, and now he can m-c to read as well as before the first accident. |