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Show MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A huge cypress tree in Tule, in the state of Oaxaoft, I.'vczico, is 134 feet in circumference. A five-cent stamp must adorn every day book, ladder or other account 'vook kept by u busintce house in Mexico. The cells in the j&U at Dover, N. II., are arranged in a circle and revolve, so that the inmates cau euccessi vely see the country at all points of the compass. A bereaved widower in St. Joseph, Mo., took unto himself a second wife before his first spouse was buried. The body of No. 1 had been temporarily placed in a receiving vault. In Topeka there is a young married mar-ried man who rt ally loves his mother-in-law lovet- her so much that her daughter has brought suit for alienating alienat-ing her husband' affections. A can of boiling lard wo on the cook stove, and Mi Stellu Evans, of Colorado Springs, put nn egg into it to boil. In rn instant the egg exploded and the lady was spattered with flying Inrd. tV citizen of Buck ft eld, Me.,' lopt his houe and all his furniture by fire. His neighbors came to his relief by tm presentation of various household! irii-lei, and among them wfre 40 bed-' -""'V ....!. ... 1 |