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Show A four year-old Irish child, saying her prayers at her mother's knee, having concluded as usual with "God bless papa and mamma, grand papas and grandmamma, uncles and aunts," etc., gave a great sigh and said: "O mommy dear, I do wish those people would pray for themselves, for I am so tired of praying for them." Severe Siberian Weather. - The latest information from the north of Asia points to an unusually low winter temperature. News received from St. Petersburg from Toboisk, in Siberia, states, that the severity of the season there is unequalled. More than a month ago the river Obi was completely frozen over, eleven passenger steamers and many other vessels of all sorts, including a Government boat with dispatches from Tomsk, being ice-bound. Within the memory of any inhabitant, the Obi, it is said, has never been frozen over at Toboisk before owing to the rapidity of its course. |