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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED A Los Angeles pickle factory recently bought eighty tons of cucumber at one cent a pound. Five generations of ono family sat for their photographs in a single group at Springfield, l'a., a few days ago. The abolition of the slave trade at Zanzibar is the first good effect ot English influence there. Now let us see if it will stay abolished. It is claimed that Tulare County, California, will lose a round half million mill-ion dollars this year for want of ships to carry' its grain to Liverpool. The long rains in France hare ruined the wheat harvest, ami tho farmers are greatly depressed. Fancy prices are paid for the left-over grain of last year. ' The Russian government has made an appropriation of 1,500 roubles annually for the maintenance of a Pasteur institute insti-tute in Titlis for the cure of hydrophobia. The most valuable netalin the world is said to be gallium, which is worth $3,230 an ounce. Calcium brings 1,S00 a pound and cerium SI, 020 per pound. Gold is worth $.M0 a pound. A faithful dog in Hamilton, Ohio, didn't abandon its attempt to arouse its drunken owner, who had fallen asleep on the railroad track, until an engine cut off its leg. Tho man escaped injury. in-jury. Fifteen millions of dollars is mentioned men-tioned as the value of the art treasures accumulated in Hilford House by Sir Richard Wallace, and it is rumored that all this will go, under the will, to the English nation. J. W. R. Haley, of Carnesville, Ga., is the champion fisherman of that section. sec-tion. He caught an eel from W. C. Hall's carp pond that was three feet nine idches in circumference and weighed six pounds. Wilson Zackerv, colored, of Summer, S. C, had a leg burned when a child, but it gave hiin no trouble until ho severely injured it two years ago. The sore refused to heal, and a day or two ago it had to be amputated. Peter B. Sweney is trying to get New York to undertake improvements along the bank of the Hudson similar to those in London beside the Thames. He wants a great driveway extending several sev-eral miles to be created. A tree in Nashville caught lire from ,., oVntrif wire. One limb was burned entirely off. A policeman threw water on ,n- ui.i.iiug nail with a hose, and when tho water struck the lire he experienced :i severe shock. A negro drayman while driving a drav heavily loaded with merchandise at Macon, lost his balance and fell off, and the dray passed directly over his neck. Strange to say, it was not broken, but the negro's injuries were serious. Worth's edict against crinoline will make no mourners. A reference to the fashion plates of 1804 will convince everybody that tho clinging draperies of the present day are best suited to tho resthetical notions of the closing days of the nineteenth century. Captain 'Walter W. Lenoir died last Saturday in Watauga county. North Carolina. Captain Lenoir lost a leg in the confederate service, and since the war, though a man of means, had never worn anything manufactured north of the Mason and Dixon line. |