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Show I OJds and Ends. I 1 An English-Irish dictionary has been brought out by a Dublin clergyman. MaJ. Austin 8. Cushman, private secretary secre-tary to President Fillmore, lives in New Bedford, Mass. The Orpheum, in San Francisco, is to be pulled down and a handsome modern theater the-ater erected in its stead. ' f Germany will send 1380 additional troops to southwest Africa this month. Since the Herrero outbreak 671 officers and men have been killed. An Imperial decree has been Issued forbidding for-bidding any Russian club to use a pack of cards more than once. Every pack of playing cards in Ruasla pays a tax. A German has patented a microphone for suspension In the water, in order to record on a connected telephone the presence pres-ence of shoals of fish, which by their tapping tap-ping on the microphone case will betray themselves. The London Jewish Chronicle states that a Japanese officer, Lieut. I. Tutom, has been received Into the Jewish congregation congrega-tion at Shanghai. Hi earlier applications for admiaslon were received very coldly, but he persisted, and is now a member of the Jewish community. Th.e national plant garden nar Chlro, Cal., has received from Japan a large bhlpment of plants and bulbs, consisting of bamboo, the Japanese salad plant, ornamental or-namental Illy seeds, Japanese paper plant, cherry tree and orange trees. They will be experimented with In the effort to propagate pro-pagate and develop In this country. Four year ago a boy of Oakland, Cal., hot and killed a man who had been annoying an-noying his sister. He was acquitted, but his, trial left him In debt 1250. lie mortgaged mort-gaged a lot be owned for the amount, paid his lawyers and went to sea on the battleship bat-tleship Iowa. He returned on November 4 with money enough to pay off the debt with Interest and Intends now to work ashore. The Prussian' authorities are taking steps to prevent the unlawful use of the prefix "von." The police have been ordered or-dered to send In lists of all persons who prefix "von" to their names. These will be carefully gone over by the heralds, and all persons found using this highly prized addition, but not entitled to do so, will be notified that unless they discontinue its us they will be punished. In 1901 the population of England and Wale a square mile was 65S. In 1900 the population of the United States was 21.4 a square mile, so England is comparatively compara-tively crowded. Tet In Lincolnshire a widow had to travel thirty-nine miles on her husband's death. Thus: For a doc-1 doc-1 tor's certificate, 7 miles; to register the death, 6 miles; return home, miles; to the grave and back, 18 miles; total, 39 miles. |