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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. People who say sharp things get the reputation of boing blunt. The Krupp guns cost so much a ton, tho present price being $850 per ton. The fashionable girl of the period now carries two fans buckled to hor waist. It is tho style. One of the profitable papers in France is the Paris Figaro. It makes an auual dividend of $-M)0, 000. Newspaper business has a fiourshing look in New York City. There are seven millionaire editors iu that city. Andrew Lang is said now to be oil' with the old love in current literature. He has gone from Haggard to Kipling. The Chinamen of New York have given to the josf, at 10 Mott street, a new unbrella which they had brought over from China. It is covered with dragons and other monsters with glittering glit-tering eyes, and is said to have cost $400. Tho latest scheme for a charitable institution in-stitution in New York is a hospital for itinerant cats and harness dogs. This scheme is fostered by several charitably inclined women who have witnessed tho persection to which these animals have been subjected, and it has at last assumed as-sumed a delinito shape and will now in all probability bo carried out to their utmost satisfaction. It is indeed a remarkable tale which is told from Diarbekir (Turkey in Asia) by tho Turkish j journal, the Tarik. During a recent tempest there were showered from the skies neither hailstones hail-stones nor rain drops, but grains of millet. The inhabitantsof Melessa and Mnhal have gathered the grain and stored it, and grinding it for bread. This beats the frog showers, to say nothing of green rain aud red snow. The suicide of a gunner nt the Rovnl Marine Artillery Bai racks at lVr s mouth throws much light on the epidemic epide-mic of insubordination, which seems infecting the whole English service. Although the coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary lusanity, it was clearly a case of suicide from overwork. The man was employed em-ployed in the shoemaker's shop in the barracks, and, with extra drills, had to toil terribly fourteen hours a day. Professor Charles A. L. Totten, of 1 ale, who recently announced his identification of "Joshua's Long Day " now claims he has placed axactly'tiie onlv other stoppage of time recorded in the Bible. This is the reveralon of the sun's shadow upon the dial of Ahaz JJrofessor Totten identities the dav "j'ou 'R'hii'h it happened as the 1.20:!" 44th for the creation, which was Wednesday Wed-nesday the 18th day of the first civil A DU3'')3aCred) niOUth of the year |