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Show The censi'b bureau puts the total population of the United States at G2,6'22,250. Tue Secondwahderb have partially par-tially swallowed a school pill that bo me of them now swear by the stare that they will never let go way down. In the Republican national convention con-vention a majority of votes nominates nomi-nates the candidates; in the Democratic Demo-cratic convention a two-thirds vote is necessary. The House ok Representatives has passed a bill providing that Indian children shall be declared citizens when they have reached the age of twenty-one. Harrison and Cleveland are again pitied against each other. Next November will prove the most reliable judge as to which will come out on top this year. Fjskfectly tike-proof paper which makes excellent walls, furniture furni-ture and floors for buildings,is a material ma-terial of recent invention. A somewhat some-what Bimilar article is manufactured manufact-ured into superior water-proof umbrellas. Txie press dispatches bring the news from Washington that the Senate favors continuing the Utah Commission, but at a reduced salary: $2,000 & year, each. The original salary was $3,000. On a vote to abolish the Commission altogether, the Republicans, with three exceptions, voted to retain them, while the Democrats, with one exception, voted to oust them. Convicts in French female penitentiaries peni-tentiaries are never permitted to open their mouths from the time they enter the gloomy walls until their release. In cases of long confinement this absence of conversation conver-sation invariably results ia insanity insan-ity or death. The government is now thiukiug of giving these prisoners prison-ers the privilege of a two-hours talk each day. In whiting up an election last week for mining recorder, the Bing-ham Bing-ham Bulletin says: When the votes were counted out and the result made known, the successful candidate had beer set on the street by the case and keg. that all who wished, both his supporters as well as the opposition, could drink to their hearts' content, and with but few , exception all did imbibe freely, aud made the mountain sides fairly ring with shouts. |