Show NOTES THE rush for africa goes on dud anil the european nations who pate in the investment can congratulate themselves that they baab almost nothing to pay the cou quest of the congo which his majesty of Belgium a has taken eleven 0 years in carrying out has been effected at the expense of only fifty six lives less than are often sacrificed in the construction of a railway THE office of superintendent of foreign mails in tb the e ment has been vacant for more than a year the place pays a year there are over a dozen applications on file but none of them seem to tn fill f 11 the bill in the estimation of the postmaster general he wants some one who speaks a dozen or more foreign languages and so ahr has been unable to find one coth combining this knowledge and also acab a knowledge of the duties of the office heres eres a chance for sume enterprising lin linguist gulat AN entire congregation was glued fast to xe the seats of a fort dod bodge e iowa church last sunday bettu because e the varnish of the seats had not sufficiently dried the destruction of wearing apparel was appalling and it is safe to say that the good efte effects ct of the sermon were counteracted by the accident As there was no special collection at last sundays sunday service there is probably no ground for or the dark suspicion that the varnish was was intended to keep the fort dodge congregation indoors after the collection platts a had passed around tiie THE most remarkable city in this this country according to the new census is west superior VV wis is since the laba census it has increased in population per cent which is the highest rate of increase shown by any place this marvelous rate of growth is explained by the fact that there were not any people there in 1880 and its site was a howling wilderness the census officials do not hesitate to say however that if it continues to maintain the same rate of growth for ten years more it will be the largest city in the world with a population of something over A NEW law is now low in force in iowa that is sure to create some surprise heretofore a chronic thief could go on preying upon a community at abdill will so long as he kept within the bounds of petty larceny rhe new law makes a second conviction of petty larceny a felony so that the theft of any trifling article artice will send a man to the penitentiary the same as though he had stolen a horse provided he had been COL acted previously of petty larceny the new law has merit for it will do away w with ith the petty larcenies larce nies which have been so discouragingly prevalent THE bi cyclists have been every ever where but it has been reserved for a new england bicyclist to accomplish a feat that has not been attempted before and that is the desee descent tnt of mt washington by the glen carriage road this is a descent of perhaps feet in a dla dis bauce of about eight miles aud when oue one considers the number of water dams that are to be jumped by the bicycle with a constantly descending grado grade that makes holding back almost impossible the feat inest be pronounced one of the most difficult on record in the annals of bicycling DR DB BROWN BBOWN SEQUARD in the forum declares that we neglect the quality of the brain to our infinite damage by overlooking the fact that there are motor elements in the brain and the spinal cords that are not properly developed and exercised unless we train our left as well as our right side to labor exercise and use thus the left hand is neglected at the expense of some elements he declares that if parents would train their children to the use of both hands so that they could use each one with almost equal facility and strength the children will have better developed brains stronger intellects and better ph physical health THEY are making great preparations ti f for 0 r 1 the c celebration ele bration of the fortieth ailet s anniversary u nive reary of califor california nials admission into the union next month the old pioneers will lead the procession in a body and various societies from dif different parts of the state will bring down a select assortment of young grizzly boaks bears to give local color to the bear flag revolution in which many of the men took part the stock of grizz lies to is limited however as it takes no small amount of pluck and skill to capture the live terror of the sierras sierra but they are being eagerly sought for now and all the old hunters are loaded for bear so to speak THE farmers alliance draws a peculiar culiar line in admitting members to its charmed circle the order s strictly tr atly confined to farmers it takes in a large variety of the rural population 14 U on country tice doctors tors country preachers country schoolmasters country mechanics and country school teachers of both sexes are let into it but city doctors city preachers city mechanics and city school teachers are rigidly excluded so are all kinds of merchants bankers brokers and labye s the line is drawn against book agents and lightning rod men likewise these latter gentlemen are officially decided to be engaged in occupations that do not harmonize with farming |