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Show CULLED CH1P8. t At a meeting of the Central Labor union in New I ork yesterday it was decided de-cided not to admit the socialists as members. The socialists were characterized charac-terized as foreigners, usurpers and nation na-tion wreckers. The largest single dock in the world was opened on March 12th last to the waters of Port Jackson in Sidney harbor, har-bor, Hew South Wales. It has taken in one steamer of 0090 tons and had room to spare. Fred Stimpsou, of Aun Arbor, Mich., has a bob-tailed cat which has indicted hor lack of tail ou a litter of offspring. The faculty is at a loss to explain the freak, and tho kittens mew a ceaseless tail of woe. Maurice Dupout, a young member of one of tho oldest families of Maryland, fell in love with an Irish barmaid in Queeustown and married her. He look his bride to the paternal mansion, and was royally received. A dispatch from Ohio tells of oue of the shortest courtships on record. The groom was a guest at a Canton hotel. He became infatuated with the cook on the day of his arrival, proposed, and, being accepted, married her at once. Tho San Francisco Call says oue doe-tor doe-tor at Sisson has atteuded two patients within three weeks who lost one linger each by letting tho car door slam to. The ends of the lingers were taken off as neatlyas if dono with a hay cutter. At Fernandina, Fla., a child aged eighteen months, of James Hazeltine, gave evidence of strangulation, and putting up a hand to the mouth pulled out of its throat a worm about ten iuches long aud fully half an iuch in diameter. Two girls of the same aire and uoarlv the same name were placed in a French institution for care of friendless children child-ren teu years ago. Some time ago one of them was taken out bv her supposed mother, given a handsome dowry and married. The other girl now comes forward with offers of proof that she is the real daughter, and she claims the dowry, if not the husband, of her substitute. |