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Show CLIPPED ANI CONDENSED. A boy only four years old, who can only talk French and Latin, and who cannot tell his name or where he lives, has been found ustruv in the streets of Philadelphia. John Van Dam slept himself to death at Grand liapids, Mich. He closed his eyes twelve day? ago. Sometime ago he took a nap which lasted eight weeks without a break... The svnod of the reformed presby-terian presby-terian church has forbidden the use of liquors aud tobacco by church members. mem-bers. Xo oue will be admitted to membership mem-bership who uses either. There is a colored man iu Galveston who is worth $330,000. He has aline house iu the most desirable residential portion of the eity and his wife employs none but white servants- In 1889, 300 elks were shot iu the for-' ests of Norway. Most of them were killed by English sportsmen, who, as Voltaire once intimated, are never happy unless they are killing something. some-thing. Steps have been taken to establish in St. Peterburg a society for the i nsurance of crops against climatic mishaps. The Agricultural Society of the metropolis has initiated the movement. Seven Waterloo veterans will celebrate cele-brate the approaching seventy-ufth anniversary an-niversary of the battle, at Haarlem in Holland six out of the seven are without with-out a penny of their own iu tho world. A lively opposition to Chinese immigration immi-gration has sprung nr iu Mexico. The miners and other laborers fear tho competiou of the pigtail wearers, and the local newspapers are actively backing them. In New Zealand a mormon convention conven-tion has just closed its sittings, at which it was officially reported that thero are 3,000 mormons iu that colony and that 500 concerts were made during the past year. A Vermont editor boasts that he has a stub-tailed, one-horned cow, with no pedigree, which not only furnished the milk for his family of ten persons last year, but $100 worth which lie sold to his neighbors. Two more students have been ex-polled ex-polled from college at Battle Creek, Mich., for flirting with opposite sex. This makes eight who have been thus ptiuished, and the remainder are in a state of mind on the subject. St. Louis claims to manufacture more wagons than any other eity in the country coun-try The entire south and southwest are supplied from this point, while fancy wagons and carriages arc ship-pod ship-pod to Europe and Australia. Tho Berlin Bocrsen Courier estimates that 1 heir arc 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps in the world. Last January Jan-uary the Imperial Postal Museum possessed S, 500 sorts, aud is now supposed sup-posed to have at least '.',000 more. It is reported from Rome that there are alarming fissures iu the dome of St. Peter's. About a cemtnry ago a similar state of. things was remedied bv encircling encir-cling the dome with a strong band of metal. The baud was heated and its contraction on coolinsr was found to be sufficient to close up the cracks. "English as she is writ" receives a curious illustration in the circular of a "f""" manufacturer, which is beaded: 1000 Mk rewarded to anv oiie who will procure me the moves of a faisitif.an. to be legally persecuted." The opening open-ing proceeds in the same styles. "The surprising results produced' bv rev new (.void-sues encourage me asking vou too to make a trial no doubt that vou will at once derive from it the trrcat ad-vanges ad-vanges they present." , A retired Detroit groceryman savs the most independent man on earth 'i the one who pays cash and runs no bills penally where he buys his provisions! YVhon he feels thy the can buy where he plea and pay as he goes "he bnvs lo better advantage cverv time and save money. If heiunsno bill he is ! uot lla ,k , e assessed for losses on some dead-beat account. Some dealers consider it perfectly fair to make up on paying accounts what m:tv have been Just on bail ones. |