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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. ' Frederick S. Parker and Jessie S. Beale were married by verbal contract in a restaurant at Sau Diego, Cal., a few days ago. Severe quarantine regulations have been established at the port of New York, in view of tho yellow fever now-raging now-raging in Havana. Mary Wollstonecrofi's "Rights of Women," which was printed in London more than one hundred years ago, is to be issued again very soon. Trees do not suffer from electric lights, as has been supposed. Dr. Siemens is said to have proved by experiment ex-periment that the electric light aids vegetation. The act restricting the influx of Chinese into V ictoria, N. S. W., operates oper-ates so well that only thirty-seven of them arrived during' the first throe months of the present year. Tho result in the Soudan may once more change the face of European politics. It looks now as if tho best fighting tribes has joined it, and serious seri-ous consequences for the mahdi may be expected to follow. There is a large farm in Mississippi in which there is only one old w hin, and that is not usetj. Tho owner will not pormit tho whip to be used on any of the stock, and tho animals work with a will without feeling the lash. A Georgia editor, says the Atlanta Constitution, borrowed a mule to plow his garden. When quiet was restored the editor was found under an outhouse, four panels of fence were gone and the mule was eating roasting ears in a neighboring truck patch. At Neuendorf, Prussia, the lightning tired the gable end of a barn where a pair of storks had built their nest for years. The flames soon caught the nest in which the brood was screaming, but tho mother stork, refusing to leave, spread her wings over the young onos and was burned alive. A hostess of authority in Paris has adopted the innovation of seating a large dinner party at small tables. It is said that tho French view of flirtation, from which thoir young people have hitherto been carefully guarded, has materially changed, and that it is to become an admitted feature of their society. The St. James' Gazette makes tho statsment that there is a schism in the Knglish church as to what one's ghost is, one side holding that it has an existence exist-ence ot its own and can walk abroad as it likes, tho other party thinking that it is begotten by the relation between the minds of two living persons that it is, in fact, a "co-operative hallucina- uon." James Ishum's valuable cow, of Rock-ville, Rock-ville, N. Y committed suicide the other day iu a verv singular way. The door or the tobacco shed having been left ajar, the melancholy animal pried the door wide open, passed within and deliberately de-liberately swallowed tho contents of a half-pouud can of paris green. She died the samo afternoon in great agony. Dissatisfied with tho census enumeration, enumera-tion, the Busiucss Men's Association of Hannibal, Mo., employed two competent compet-ent men to make a recount of the second sec-ond ward, the smallest ward iu thocitv. The government enumerator returned the population of the ward at 1,970 The recount, which was concluded ou Thursday, makes the population y 45s agaiuof482! ' By the English law heirlooms ar exempt from probate duty, so the duke of Hamilton paid nothing on the treasures treas-ures of his palace when he came into possession in 18ti3. But when he sold Ihem they ceased to be heirlooms it appears, ap-pears, and the board of inlaud revenue has shocked his grace with a sudden demand for JEltJ.WK) or three per cent on the 0t)0,000 realized from the Hamilton palace sale. '' . It is said that the new counterfeit two dollars treasury note which is causing so much trouble in commercial circles is well executed, but it is a quarter of an inch shorter than the genuine bill i,ra"?" l,,at skillful counterfeiters should blunder in such a single matter as the size of a bill. Perhaps they made the new counterfeit a little short in order to readily detect it when minified with their good money. Wise ure-caulioul ure-caulioul r |