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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. A $10,000 joss bouse was dedicated at San Jose, Cal., recently. An Arizona cowboy caught a bear with his lassoo and dragged it to death. Beware of the thousand-legged worm. A New Jersey girl has been killed by one. A citizen of Baker City, Oregon, paid $120 freight on two terriers from England. Eng-land. A counterfeiter at Little Rock, Ark., stored his bogus money in his wooden leg. The harvest of cereals in Oregon and Washington will be the heaviest ever known. There will be magnificent crops of fruit. If a razor is in fairly good condition and not in need of the oilstone it may soon be whetted to a line edge ou the palm of the hand or the inner side of the forarm. Tho latter is best if it is free from hair. Dallas, Oregon, claims to handle more wool direct from the producer than any other city in the United States. Lorge wagon loads come to town every day, and 5,000,000 pounds will be handled this season. The greatest marvel in telegraphy is said to be the synchronous multiplex, an instrument by means of which six messages can be transmitted upon one wire, either all from one station or in opposite directions. At thecouvict camp on the Scuffle plantation, plan-tation, Florida, a number of the convicts were leaning against a wire fence when the lightning struck the fence, killing one ot them instantly and stunning several sev-eral others very severely. The German Bicycle Union which has 13,000 members, will hold its annual an-nual convention at Munich on Aug. 1-5. On Aug. 8d and 4th races will be held under the union's auspices, and on Aug. 5th, all the delegates will make a trip on their wheels to Oberamraergan. They have a curious custom at the burial of unmarried women iu Brazil. The coffin, hearso and the livery of the driver must be bright scarlet, the four white horses drawing the hearse must be covered with scarlet nets and scarlet plumes must deck the horses' heads. A midwife of Odessa sued a certain Mr. Viltcher for her fee, as she had assisted as-sisted his wife at the delivery of a child Being questioned by the judge whv he-refused he-refused to pay his bill, Mr. Viltcher said that he did not feel as though he owed the midwifo anything, because the baby was a girl. William Malcolm, who died at Syracuse, Syra-cuse, N. Y., Saturday, is said to have carried with him to the crave a sr-.ienti. he secret of inestimable value. He could make lenses that did not require adjustment for varying distance, but like the human eye, could sweep any field at one focus. His secret was known only by himself. The greatest steeple climber in Ene-land Ene-land is said to be William Green. He has repaired fifty or more steeples and spires, and is sent for from all parts of the kingdom. His great achievements have been m repairing the spire of Sal-lsbury Sal-lsbury Cathedral, 404 feet high; Louth Lincolnshire, 3o0 feet; Gratham 3"6 feet, and a steeple in Cambridgeshire 280 leet. The Franciscan monks have recentlv opened their first Canadian monastery in Montreal The monks live entirely by arms and are allowed to touch no money. If victuals are not supplied they go forth and beg. They preach penuauce and conversation, and their principal occupation is praver meditation medita-tion and penauce. Their doors are always al-ways opens to the poor, and with them tho monks share such as they have themselves. J The summer catalogues of all German universities give this information- The universities have been attended bv "0-311 "0-311 students, 300 more than were on the rolls last winter and 200 fewer than were in attendance last summer; 5 80S studied theology.7,113 jurisprudence 8.8 medicine. 2,430 philosophy and natural sciences. The theological faculty had an unusually larZe number of listeners. The philosophical f Z was exceptionally unpopular. |