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Show MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. " At Goshen, Ind., a disputed horse race was decided by the revelation of a camera. In La.rue county, Ky., it is said that Charles Williams has grown a bunch of white blackberries. Bears havo been so thick around Id'abo that it has been said that there was a bear for every bushel. Tho oldest house in Union, Me., built in 1803 and occupied always by the same family, has just been torn down. -Pius Taync, a negro of Baxdstown, Ky., has exhibited six tomatoes grow:: by him. which together weighed li pounds. John J. Ingall's daughter Constance Con-stance ran an electric car in Atchison during one evening in place of the reg- (Neb.) creameries are making each 2,000 pounds of butter a day, and the county people are happy. Allen Ileusted, 71 years old, of ! Grand Blanc, Mich., has taken to the bicycle with a vim, and the other day rode 30 miles to make a visit. Mrs. C. Reyes, S3 years old and crippled, cultivated a garden by her own labor at St. Augustine, Fla-., and one day she picked from it a 36-pound watermelon and 80 pumpkins. - - ..mmmam s |