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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED An Englishman recommends tomatoes toma-toes as a remedy for dyspepsia and biliousness. A Philadelphia mendicant known as "BlinS Johnny", is said to be worth $20,000. It is estimated that fully 4,000 Pen-nsylvanians Pen-nsylvanians are in the employ of the United State government. A military cordon has been established estab-lished around Lisbone to prevent the entrance of any person from a cholera-infected cholera-infected district. An international beauty show is to be held in Voluna in September. All competitors must send their photographs photo-graphs not later than Aug. 20. The ladies of St. Loui3 make life a burden to thegripmen on the cable cars by punching them in the back with their parasols when they want the cars stopped. At L'Orient Arsenal, iu France, a great ironclad war vessel of 11,000 tons is nearly completed.. It is strongly armed with immense cannon in revolving revolv-ing towers. It is said that there are 7,000 vacant houses in Kansas City, Mo., and that it has lost many thousands of it population popula-tion the past two years since its "boom" collapsed. The Italian minister of agriculture has recently purchased In England a splendid stallion named Melton for $50,000. It is .intended for the royal stables at Venaria and Pisce. An English medical writer asserts that cancer is not hereditary in the vast majority of cases, no less than 89 per cent being caused by external influences upon the sufferers. A bookbinder in Vienna was called upon to bind a volume of 100 leaves worth 100,000 gulden. Each leaf was a bond for 1,000 gulden, the book being the owner'g gift to his only daughter. Sevres ware has so fallen in public estimation that the annual sale scarcely exceeds $20,000. The works receive a yearly subsidy of $100,000,' but the quality of tho wares produced has deteriorated. A young woman at Parsons, Kan., who pays a large tax, claims the right to pasture her cows in the school house grounds because she never had any children to send to the school. That woman was built for a lawyer. Ishmael Pasha was foolish enough t- go to Constantinople a year ago, and now the sultan will not let him leave there. The other day Ishmael an-nouced an-nouced that he must go to Italy for a change of air, but the sultan saia no. The following notice is posted on the main street at Athena, Oregon: "To my neighbors: If my spring chickens are disturbing your garden kill them aud eat them. Don't pile them out in the alley to become a nuisance. John Edington." Hard times the coming winter are anticipated an-ticipated at Ottawa, the chief center of tlio Canadian lumber trade. The business busi-ness is very slack this season, and there is a large quanily of lumber unsold. Consequently the cut next winter will be smaller than usual. The wire to be used for the telephone between Paris and London is made of bronze.- It is estimated that the French share of the expense of establishing the telephone will be about $150,000. Enthusiasts En-thusiasts believe that all the telegraphic communication will be superseded. That England intends to go to Mecca one of those days is clearly indicated by recent utterances in the English press. Pilgrims have been treated so badly at Mecca of late years that the Turks and Egyptians are begining to be very auxious to see Mecca in neutral hands. There ' will be a grand ceremony, municipal and naval, on the 23d instant when the body of John Elicssou is transferred to the cruiser Baltimore for removal to the great inventor's Swedish native soil. There will be a procession of vessels and a military display on the Battery. |