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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED,! Secretary Tracy's son Frank i J to South America as the represent8! of telephone interests. The latest revelation is that r I pays $400,000 out of the public h3 subsidize newspapers for the a? J of the government. P There are in France about 1 1 thousand elementary schools il teachers, having passed an examiii.tl train boys in gardening. all The colored women of Atchison J organized a woman's exebanm. 1 everybody who desires them can J obtain cornbread and fried catfish I This is the way the great w. Africa goes to his extinction. An I nary elephant produces 120 Donnil ivory, worth $300. England coZl 650 tons, for which it is neCp.l kill 12,000 elephants a year. "l W. S. Williams, of Cherokee CiJ Ala., is the father of twenty-eight j dren, the eldest of which is forty J years old and the youngest six 1 Williams is in his seventieth year ai l still hale and vigorous. 1 A search light now costs about J 000 and weighs 1,000 pounds a I search light weighing 130 poimdil 4,000 candle power, and said to be J to penetrate the thickest fog for the! tauce of one-eighth of a mile, ensu 1 than 8500. U A learned man has said that the tj est word to pronounce in the eJI language are "I made a misiaj When Frederick the Great wrote tol senate "I have just lost a battle nil my own fault," Goldsmith said: I confession shows more greatness t his victories." 1 The energetic manner iu which J peror Wllhefra is weeding old nunl of the German army is shown by sj tics: At tho end of 1884 there 3,948 officers of the Prussian contitj in retirement; today there are if Generals of infantry and cavalry hi been remorselessly mown down. London has a boy cartoonist. Hel only ten years old, but is said todol markablo work. Ho lately madJ sketch of Mr. Gladstone, and, mil it to him, by return mail received terin the "Grand Old Man's own hal writing thauking the little artist J wishing him every success in his fail operations. 1 For fifteen years a Portland bnsial man has received from the tlorj every other morning a fresh bunch flowers roses, heliotrope. forget-J nots and the like, and placed it dim in front of him upon his deck, by i looking upon the bright side of lit has undoubtedly added to his hri ncss. The British Museun has recently I come possessed of a Chinse bank J issued from the imperial mint 800 jj before tho circulation of pj money in Europe, or in the first ytl or one of the first years, of the reigj the first Ming emperor. The first rf bank in Europe was that of Barcclol established in 1401. Tho Russia saloon for tea drinkinj an interesting feature of life in Kiis-1 cities. The waiters are attired in wlJ from head to foot, with a large blJ purse at the waist, and all arc uJ Tea is drunk alone or with lemon, I the sugar eaten from the hand. Elevl or fifteen cups are not to many fori old tea drinker. Alexander Jacques, a French fastis man, has begun an attempt to beat record in London. He proposes to J main for forty -two days without J food except a powder of secret coinpJ tion. He says he sustained himself I his comrades for many days on tl powder while he has a soldier audi Germans were besieging Belfort. I Tho "fattest girl in Paris," VfcfcJ Fantin, died Sunday and was burl Thursday with great cermony. l was only nineteen years of age, si weighed 470 pounds. Shewaseng at the Eden Theater, but her size such that she made very few apptJ ances. It required seven strong si to assist her from her house to tl stage. The smallest newspaper in the wol is published at Arp. Banks county, I J It is 7x5 inches. Jt is named Tl Boss, and is edited by W. A. Hani who claims in his salutatory that tl paper is a perfectly normal prods yet it appears to be the representitive a literary club, a laboratory, an il ance, a broom factory and a flying mi chine. That unlovely phrase "blocks of fijj has reached France, but the numb in the blocks has been exact doubled. In an article on the agrit'l tural crisis in the United States, W Count Keratsy, in a recent issue of il Revue des Deux Moudes, the Fr people are gravely assured that in tl country votes are bought in groul "of ten electors." Perhaps the most wonderful curnj bush ever seen is owned by R. Lonaf j of Maryville, U. J. He found i bush growing wild in the woo'l brought it home and planted i'D.vl side of the house. The bush has grol up the side of the building W height of about twenty feet and is a seven feet wide, bearing currantel large an ordinary cherry. I |