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Show 8TATISTI0AL ITEMS. LAsr year l08,o Immigrants left Oerman ports for tho United States. TiiBEK-rirrus of tho shoes worn In the United States, aro mado in Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. It U estimated, that tho standlug pine In Ashland county, Wis., williucab-uro williucab-uro about 10,000,000,000 feet. Tub total recorded Immigration to this country lsyo.001,003, itjmost ns many as tho nholapopulntiou of Spain I manufacturing operations tho averogo life of siap boilers Is hlghoat, nnd that of grindstone matters tho lowest. j Tub Irish spend 811 por capita, tho Scotch 915.14 pccapltn nnd tho Eiig-llsh Eiig-llsh 810.18 per capita for liquors nn-nually. nn-nually. Theso statistics nro rIyoii by Itcv. Dr. Dawsdn Ilurnn, of London, who Is a standard authority on temper' ance questions, f" A noiA-"uiairvvho was attached by a Holsteln 'bull jumped Into tho river. Bull followed Man swam to log and got on other hide, ot tt Bull tried to follow, got his forelegs over, stuck, struggled, was exhausted, i oiled off and draw ncd. In Wheeling, W Va , a young man wont In swimming and sank l'rlouds were present and grabbed him They thought It vvasii cramps, but the real and less prosalo,eauso was a foven-foot eel that had got about his legs nnd was bent on drowning; him. Louisiana, rejoices In the possession of a species .of snako known na n "doublo-ender." It has a head at each extromlty and can go cither way In great shape; also a lizard which Is translucent. Thrso marvels nro certified certi-fied to by ono Copt Rldgo. A Trxas man was sitting in a darlt room recently when ho was attrartel by the buzztnc pf a gold-colored bu Taking' the nppearauco of tho bug ns n favorable omen ho followed It. It stopped directly over mi old vvoll lu u defertedjfleldj then tho man went to digging' and presently discovered iv number of gold dollars and som6 few silver coins &: T " |