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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. The American congregational churches church-es havo resolved to give "2000 annually for evangical work in France. A huge catfish was found alive imbedded im-bedded in a hollow log in a mill dam at Martindale. Jt swam in a small hole when a little fish and was unable to find its way out and grew in the log. George Gilbert, a Boardman, Ohio, miser, died a few davs ago, leaving a fortune of ISO. 009. It usod to be his frequent boast that his actual living expenses ex-penses were not more than three cents a day. Fred Babner, of Reading, suddenly experimented a loss of weight from lf6 to eighty-six pound, and a few days ago found the cause of it to be live lizards that had been living in his stomach. The body of a Russiau who died in McKeeport, Pa., a few days ago from cigarette smoking was found to be as yellow as a sun-flower berause of the nicotine with which he was saturated. Cranberry Jiieking has become so much an established industry among the Cape Cod children that it is proposed pro-posed to arrango the school terms so that there will be no session during the cranberry season. The latest addition to the world of newspapers is entirely in Latin, advertisements adver-tisements and all, mid its object is to prove that Latin should again become what it was in the middle ages, the universal uni-versal language. Tho income derived by French people who rear fowls, according to official returns, is y;!7,100,0()0 francs, of which 158,500,000 francs represent the value of the flesh and 183,000,000 francs that of the eggs. Dueling being no longer obligatory in the French army, it looks as it civilians might be less punctilious about observing observ-ing the rules of the code. The present ministry is doing its best to discountenance discounten-ance the practice. Henry Frozer, of Caernarvon, Pa., a tobacco grower, encountered a large copperhead snake aud killed it. The reptile was cut o.pen, when thirty-five youug snakes made their debut, and were also speedily dispatched. Canton, Me., must be a fortune town. Having no other use for their jail the selectmen have rented it to a man for a shoemakers' shop. The tenant, however, how-ever, keeps a cell or two in readiness in case somebody should lapse from virtue. vir-tue. Among the best customers for Swiss watches are the United Statos, although the industry is largely developed in America. Germany takes about 17,000,-000 17,000,-000 francs' worth of Swiss watches annually, an-nually, Great Britian 13,000,000 worth opan Frane 6,500,000 worth. It is a risky thing to receive into the bosom of the family a long lost son who has no strawberry mark to identity him, A Pennsylvania farmer has been victimized by a clever sharper, who personated the returned prodigal long enough to eat the fatted calf ami secure $5000 in cash. Then he lost himself him-self again. It is a well-known fact that persons grow somewhat shorter as they reach advanoed years, owing to a "setting" of the bony structure. A noted case is reported from Harrington, Del., where a man died on Sunday who, owing to a contraction of the spine, had become a foot shorter than ho was when he stopped stop-ped growing. An American millionaire has astonished aston-ished the natives of West Midland countv, England, where he has taken a country vicarage for two months, bv the magnitude ot his establishment, to accommodate which a large extra house has boon hired. It includes thirty servants, ser-vants, twenty horses, twelve dogs', four cows and fourteen cats. Torringtou, Conn., has a farmer whoso piety takes the form of watchfulness watchful-ness on Sundays to catch persons picking pick-ing fruit or berries on his grounds. He has such offenders arrested and lined, asserting that it is not the loss of his fruit or berries that ho minds, but that he will not tolerate Sabbath breaking upon his property. The average life of a rahbU is put at about nine years. The doe niav have young eight times a year, averaging eight each time. The first litter is produced pro-duced when but four months old. The progressions based on these figures lead to astounding results. For three years tho possible progeny of two rabbits has been calculated at over 13,000,000, and for seven years at 1,500,000,000. The world's stock of diamonds has increased in-creased enormouslv in the last fifteen years. In 1W70 the output of tho African Afri-can mines was about 1,500.000 carats last year it was over 4,000.000, and the great "trust" which controls all the P'Pal mines assert that thev have 10.000.000 carats "in sight" at th'e present pres-ent time. The Portland Oregonian savs: Pete Mox, an Indian, stole two horses from J. f. Dillman, of Grand Coulee. Dill-man Dill-man at once took up the trail and followed fol-lowed the thief for fifteen davs, finally capturing Mox by shooting him in Ihe arm. Dillman suffered great hardship and privation in his long pursuit. On the dry western ranges he often suffered suffer-ed for water. One ride of fortv-five miles was mado without that necessity |