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Show SCISSORED TO SUPPLY PRINTERS. Thoreau says "nature is a trie benefactressthe benefac-tressthe secret of her service is unchangeabie-ne?s. unchangeabie-ne?s. They have d: -covered that justice is made blind so the goddess cannot see what is going on in the court room. Men who have good ' nerves and plenty to eat will not envy Jay Gould. That is more than he has. Character is worth more than wealth. A mosque is about to be erected in Vienna for the use of the Mussulm an troops from Bo?nia and Herzegovina when they are temporarily stationed sta-tioned in Vienna. The Chicago Tribune nays: In Olathe.Kan., a bachelor who kissed a married woman's hand was flp.ed S5tl. If that w as the best he could do in Ula-the Ula-the the punishment seems heavy. he Law rence Journal says: The fact that a lot of circuses are billed for Kansas this late in the season shows that the managers of thos coin binations have heard that the calamity shows are about to go off the road. A city wants manufactures, but they come pretty high when they have to put in at tha expense ex-pense of trees, f'oal soot is believed to be the cause of the decline and death of the magnificent hade trees at Cleveland, O. The old river Nile is to do better work in the future than in the past. It is the intention of European engineers to etore the waters of the ;ile to such au extent as to enable a greater extension ex-tension of the cotton and sugar cane crops iu that region. There would seem to be considerable timber tim-ber in Europe. The forest areas of Germany are returned as follows: Prussia, 6.OUO.0UO acres; Bavaria, 2,SOO,0( acres; Wurtemberg, 4V0.IMI acres; Saxony, 416,1)00 acres and Baden, 235,0u0 seres. The battles of the bugs may all be known now in all their minutiie. A Frenchman, M. Marcy, by arranging his own apparatus, has succeeded suc-ceeded in photographing the fliirht oi insects, the exposure of the plate being necessarily not over 1-5,000 part of a second. Governor Hill may not be so prominent in the south as he thinks he is. The Atlanta ,oir-nal ,oir-nal fays: When Governor-Senator Hill comes south next month he ought to brine alonr the gold-bug section of the new democratic statu ptatform to exhibit to his alliance friends down here. The ruling passion eccentricity is strong even in death in the case of that weird Russian girl, Marie Baehkirtseff's tomb, near Passy, consists con-sists of a vault and chapel. Her portrait hangs just above the sarcophagus and is wreathed in flowers in true French fashion; aud day and night a lamp is kept burning close by. Nature has its laboratories as w ell as men. A spring that gushes forth soda water and in reality real-ity tornis a huge natural sods-water fountain has been discovered in Oregon. The water is sparkling spark-ling and effervescent, and when flavored and hot-tied hot-tied cannot be distmgished from the artificial beverage. Life is rather an expensive institution from start to fiuish. It costs something to live and a good deal to die: in fact, everything costs. Someone estimnfen that getting born costs the people in the I niteil States $g50.tKlO.IOO annually; getting married, 8:SO9,(W0,0O0, and getting buried 75,000,000. The 6tudy of botany was slow at getting a start in this country. The first elementary work on botany published in this country bore date 1X03, aud was written by Professor D. S. Barton. The systematic teaching of botany in American schools seems not to have begun until some twenty years later. Concerning a very common weed seen often In all parts of this country, the Garden and Forett avs: The common Stramonium or thorn apple (Jjdtura stramonium) is in some parts of New England, generally called "Jamestown weed" or, by eCsion, "Jimson weed." This name, says a recent writer in tha A'lanllc Monthly, sprang from the fact that the plant, which was ruedicinal-lv ruedicinal-lv esteemed, had been brought over by the Jamestown James-town colonists and "spread miraculously" from the plhce of its lirxt establishment. At an early date it had become so troublesome in the New llaen colony that a law was passed to enforce it- destruction as 'a great, stinking, poi&onous weed. ' i |