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Show CLIPPED AN1 CONDENSED. Steps are being taken by the Russian Health society to organize a hygienic exhibition in Russia. . Dr. Meredith, a Brooklyn preacher, has established a scoond reading room for workinguicn, where no restriction is placed on smoking cigars and pipes. The "living" portion of the white house is quite small, consisting only of live bed-rooms on the second lloor and the dining-room and one other room on the tirst lloor. The police of St. Petersburg lias sent notico to all the saloonkeepers in the neighborhood of factories that they will be heavily fined if they continue selling spirituous drinks to laborers on trust, or beguile the laborers to drink in any other way. An examination'of the scales used by the ice dealers at Holyoke showed that one was short anywhere from fifteen to twenty pounds, and another was short half a pound in live pounds. None of those examined were found to over-weigh over-weigh tho fractional part of an ounce. Poundkceper Finn of New York estimates esti-mates the dog population of that city at from twenty-live thousand to thirty thousand. During tho past year the dog catchers caught 74GS dogs, 300 of which were redeemed by their owners paying $3 tine, the remainder being asphyxiated. A New Auburn, Mo., man took a novel way of advertising the other day. He managed to catch a large snipe and placed him in his store window among a lot of gaudy looking fireworks, with a placard about its neck bearing the following inscription: "A genuine Australian duck." Dr. Flint is quoted as saying: "I have never known a dyspeptic to recover re-cover vigorous health who undertook to live after a strictly regulated diet, and I have never known an instance of a healthy person living according to a strictly dietetic system who did uot become be-come a dyspeptic." The increase of insanity in Berlin has made it neiessary that a new public lunatic asylum should be established Tho building, which is to accommodate 10(10 patienis, will be situated in the easterly suburb of Lichtenberg. The city of Berlin already maintains an asylum asy-lum with about 1200 inmates at Dall-dorf. |