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Show electric passenger car : at" Doven, N. TL'. . Mr. Staite has secured a patent in London for rendering light . available by electricity.". Flour in California is $40 a barrel. "The streets of St. Louis were lighted with gas for the first time November 3.V V: v.v , ! . r ; - There have . been . more important . things . since, but not many men are brighter, than) were Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams., There are bigger I steamships coming into New York harbor, and Jersey. Jer-sey. City gains more than 444 people a year. What a chance there would have been to buy real estate-in Chicago Mrhen there were only 17,000 people there; and at that time all the region' between a little this side of St Louis and. San Francisco was a closed book. Surely the last sixty years has been a period of miracles for our country. THREE SCORE YEARS AGO. From some old book the New York Sun has picked up some items of sixty years ago. that is 1847. In this book Horace Greeley writes of "the existing exist-ing destitution, often suffering, of a large proportion of the laboring class." The arrival of a steamship from Europe is rejoiced over. Some master of figures fig-ures estimates that Cincinnati will have a population in 1904 of 4.066.667. A long sick list is published from "West Point, and a surgeon gives two. reasons: The cadets smoke too much, and the tightness of their pantaloons around the waist interferes with digestion. Some barnstormers in Manchester. Conn., had been arrested and fiiwd $60 because the manager, man-ager, "with a view of gain did cause certain females, dressed in women's clothing, to whirl around swiftly swift-ly on one foot, wit,h the other extended at right " aneles and in a horizontal position." "Mr. Daniel Webster opposes the Mexican war." Mr. John Quincy Adams' health is "still equable ami vigorous." Mr. Eli Whitney is making 1000 Colt's revolving pistols at New Haven for the Government. A resolution introduced into the Kentucky Legislature Legisla-ture provides that every convict's nose shall be painted and kept perfectly black until one month before the end of his term. Many Maine teamsters have pledged themselves not to haul ardent spirits; and an "elegant silver pitcher" has just been givei to the Hon. Neal Dow. Mayor of Portland. There art 2350 miles of telegraph lines in the United States The extent of the omnibus business in New York is "scarcely to be imagined." There are 326 omnibuses, omni-buses, "coaches." and 800 employees. An English journalist admires "the pretty faces and figures of the New York ladies." but regrets that they "follow "fol-low the abominable practice of chewing the gum of the spruce fir." Then, here is an item that old stagers will all remember: re-member: "Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, knocked down and cowhided N. P. Willis, the poet, last Monday Mon-day evening at the Washington Parade Ground." Gen. Winfield Scott is 61. Daniel Webster is 65. Mr. Winans of Raltimore has just built for the Reading Read-ing railroad two locomotives that are to burn anthracite anthra-cite coal. A bill in the New York Legislature to tax bachelors, reads. "Every unmarried white male unconvicted ri crime, of good health and fair phj'sieal proportions, end who is between the ages of 29 and 56." The first American mail steamer sails from New York in June. She is 230 feet long, 2000 tons burden, bur-den, "the most splendid steamer afloat." A statue of "Washington is her figurehead. Then comes an item, which may explain possibly, why a certain modern event happened, it says : "Mr. Longworth of Cincinnati made 6000 bottles ' tot champagne from his Catawba grapes." V Another item tells that while Mrs. Sigourney, the V poetess, was making a speech to President Polk at Hartford, her house was robbed of "valuable jew- .elry';' Chicago reports a population of 17,000. Cleve-; Cleve-; land of 12,769, Jersey City of 5862, "an increase of ' Ali for one year," A Moses G. Farmer exhibited an |