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Show CUFFED AND CONDENSED. At Richmond, Va.. they have what they call the Confederate White house. They propose to use it as a museum for war' relics. ' . The. "Bohemian Girl" has been a source of profit to many, and yet the composer of tbe opera is in distress by reason of poverty. As a picturesque poser, Senator lu-galls lu-galls -is a success. In his lato photographic photo-graphic interview he assumed "twenty-eight "twenty-eight attitudes." A plant in Mexico called the pombo-lano pombo-lano is said to be analogous to quinine. It is stronger and lias the reputation ot being death to ague. Catching the lights and shadows , is a common event now. Nearly all the handsome dinners given in Philadelphia are photographed by flash light. Neglect is often worse than ignorance. ignor-ance. The latter may be remedied but it is" hard to cure the sin of ignorance. It is the cancer that eats away many a life. At a dinner by the "Last Man's club" in Philadelphia two candles were un lighted, signifying the death of two members. Plates, knives and glasses were laid for the dead, and the .orbet box was a minature package inscribed "The Last Man's Elixir of Life." A great petroleum excitement pre-vails pre-vails at Parkersburg, VV.Va., some very large wells having been opened in the suburbs. .Every day large tracts of land are leased and many wells are being be-ing drilled. Farmers have given up raising crops, and professional men abandon their otlices lo invest in oil. The report that Moody and Sankey had fallen out proves to be untrue. They are still as brothers dear, and the story of the rupture between them was started by uuregeuerated sinners. Occasionally an original" man is remembered re-membered and sometimes is rewarded. "Unclo Billy" Powers, formerly a Baptist Bap-tist clergyman, is the only living Gjorgiao who cast a vote for Lincoln in 18(50. One other voter in tho state was for Lincoln at the time but be w;is killed during the war. Powers was a Blaine elector iu 1884, and is now a census cen-sus supervisor. |