| Show A C L ap P I 1 N GS the m contract for the new county buildings in philadelphia says the north morth american was drawn up with a pe pen een efrom from an eagles wing wings which mear three feet two inches the barrel bading ten inches long and a half an inch in diameter and the feather three inches wide many years ears amo ago apo ago a naval officer was so pleased ditl with the pluck i tick of a barefooted boy who rowed him across from staten island to bergen during a storm that no one else dared encounter that he pot him a situation ou a vessel the boy was cornelus Corne lus ius vanderbilt now worth by careful experiment at the polytechnic school in iti paris it is found that in the various competitive examinations the smokers prove in the average far inferior to the non smokers both mentally and physically 1 ciphon the name given by the japanese t their country means the rising of the sun eun 7 7 they know nothing of the word japan apan and do donot not use it they call their country ciphon because i se it is the most easterly sterly p point of asia f three ahrie cuban families are said to yown 0 r wn one sixteenth of the entire real and per personal ional lonal bans vans arg property erty slaves of the island and twenty five thousand an of the troy X N Y times can sit and listen to a speech of an lenth length and without a previous note write jt it out n ea early aly verbatim garibaldi bad but bute ight eight men killed in the conquest of the 1 kingdom r of naples the pennsylvania coal mines have bare already yielded vi elded eldea this year over tons of anthracite th ih and of bituminous coal the total for the year will be the average weight of 4 ogg men weighed at the mechanics fair in boston was lbs ibs 13 gozs the estimated average in belgium is ibs lbs in france lbs ibs and in england 0 ibs lbs A lady hady of Toledo ohio has swallowed six live frogs in as many weeks as a remedy for consumption she swallows them whole without chewing and is said to have been restored to strength C from a state of great weakness the american bank note com company P any has sent out a corps of artists with the necessary e emry egry apparatus for completing the order of the bank of st petersburg about to be opened with a capital of xa J the bill of the bank note company will be nearly compliment to American skill 1 I new york is the third city of the civilized world 1 in population containing about 1 while london has and paris st petersburg C and philadelphia have each vienna berlin and naples about each london contains square miles the prince of wales irrespective of bein being heir air to the throne of great britain also has ca cash h p property at this time of over 0 00 t the h surplus revenues from the estates of the duchy of cornwall at twenty one he will stand possessed of nearly in hard cash eash out of a caravan of 82 persons who crossed the great desert froin from alter after algeria la to tim lucto bucao the present summer all but t 15 used wine and other liquors liquor as a preventative against african diseases soon after reaching in timbuctoo these all died save one while of the bif fifteen teen who wiio abstained all survived abbul ab sheep beep have been arlyn out of vermont and sod sold at good pr prices 1 ces choice varieties from as high as 7 to 12 per head bince since july V garibaldi has hag established the decimal system stem of coinage in sicily the new pieces zear bear lle ile the lie head of his sardinian majesty with the le legend n erld erid victor cvictor king 0 of italy A correspond correspondent blit krit of the home journal in residence in japan has never seen a quarrel even among children A gentleman comin coming 9 liim into nto the room of the late mr burton told him that mr vowel was was wag dead what said he be vowel ivodel deada lelus letus letus be thankful it was neither u nor i 11 I 1 parties wishing dishing to marry in germany must produce fourteen distinct c certificates of ok various qualifications to procure license the feeling of caste is so strong in in india ildia that a soldier lying wounded on the battle field has been known to die rather than drink water wa fer offered him by one ofa of a I 1 tower flower caste A sikh soldier in the hospital at agra sult suffered ered for hours rather than receive water from an english lady his hii words were though ho inan manasee see rn rna ine arink drink god will see it the falling off of the hog bog cr crop in n kentucky year is some OMs this lor los loss will te be about four and a half millions of daf dollars A poor blacksmith in Alleg hany bany co pa being leing down in the world took to boring for oil on a I 1 little ittle lot that lie he owned if it was waa rumored th that thae athe he was successful and as he had bad a daughter some of the village beaus thought it worth while to notice her one efthem of them attempted to breall breaks the ice of a along long iong neglect by offering to escort her home from meeting on sunday evening when turning upon him with a look of scorn she exclaimed you cant come that if dad has several thousand polish jews have recently y p passed a as ed through posen on their way to the U united n i t ed states via berlin and hamburg the german papers say that such an exodus of the children of israel has not been witnessed since that out of egypt in the town of farmingdale farmin gdale la e kennebec county me there ie is no orda ordained a if d clergyman no lawyer law er no physician neither is there any house bouse for tor public worship or any public institution except schools within the limits A AL destructive tornado in cumberland co maine sept but twenty rods wide carried all before it barns smashing win windows aws and blowing down sh sheds eds apple trees were carried away and several left forty forts rods oft off A man with an ox cart was hurled hurle a ten rods and anid even rocks were blown a great distance Ro rochester chuter N Y has the largest nursery in the world covering 1500 00 acres each acre averaging 10 trees and plants mr john chapman a young man of swift creek N C while searching ng for some runaway negroes who had made their camp near the thie premises of his mother was shot dead by one of them A hunt was organized to capture the unknown negro A petrified fish over sixteen feet in length and very perfectly preserved its scales and fins being distinctly distin cly marked has bas peen taken from the coal mine at blue mound blound kansas I 1 the expand of madrid has a new article i which speaks with great violence of england and declares that notwithstanding her vessels her tier armstrong cannon and volunteers she will not be able to prevent poor downtrodden down trodden spain from regaining possession of the rock of gibraltar miss bliss A bt hemengway of ludlow vt is publishing in fourteen quarterly numbers a digest of the history of each town in vermont giving an account of its early settlement the prominent features of its history and sketches of its inhabitants who have distinguished at home or abroad rev dr boswell clergyman of exeter england has been deposed for the seduction of one of his parishioners ners the scoundrel attempted to throw all the blame upon his victim but without success the quantity of coal oil produced is estimated est at thirty thousand gallons per day or nine million per annum worth over six millions of dollars in the a aggregate 19 regate part of the crew of the british barque bacque kitty wrecked by an iceberg aug 11 1859 were picked up by the Esqui maux indians and taken to the moravian settlement of ekak whence they have just returned to the civilized world they had been at sea in an open boat two months before being behig rescued A soldier being asked if he met meb with much hospitality while in ireland replied that he was in the hospital nearly all the time lie be was there eleven dwell dwelling ing houses bouses to cost each are to be built in cambridge mass for egyptian government every thing p pertaining e artal nhe to them to be completed in this country 11 kenmore 11 near Fredrick burgh the residence of fg mary the mother of washington whose unfinished monument still adorns the neighboring 11 eminence was sold recently for the treasure said to have been fo found u nd by garibaldi in the royal baneat bank at naples 89 1 lire amounts to of our money A A german out west being required to give a receipt in full after much mental effort produced the following lish full imants I 1 wants no more money A new route has been completed around the raft in red river through a canal 40 feet vide avide 10 16 feet deep and yards long the late daring robbery of the church of notre dame at paris of its pro properties perVies and jewels worth hundreds of thousands of francs forms another great european rascality of the kind so prevalent there that it seems as if the genius of american roguery inspired them all A telescope with a magnifying power of twenty thousand is in course of erection at paris observatory A lucky clerk in the regis office in boston recently found between the leaves of an ancient volume of records a bank backof of england 0 note dated 1673 for loo james card of west waterbury mass has an apple measuring fifteen and a half bal f I 1 inches is in circumference aad weighing one pound and four ounces it is said that about the only person ever heard of who was not spoiled by being lionized was a adew named daniel the president has haa advertis advertised bd the new york indian lands in kansas fyr for sale on the ad and of december regardless regard les of a petition from the settlers who represent that in ia consequence of the total fail fall failure tire of their crops at least 2000 families will be driven from their hard earned hom homes bomes by forcing on the sale at the tho present time during a trial for assault at passaic a few weeks since counsel asked the complainant nant liow how hard the accused shook him in explanation he was seized by the witness and the breath almost shaken from his body producing a very satisfactory impression |
