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Show t MISCCLLANEOUS ITEMS. . Kngllsh law taken no account of libels' on th dead.- Not o in Krancer A l'arlslttu lady has just oblalneU n. Aerdlct agiUnst uu author who pub-! Ilshed some defamatory statements of her grandfather. Before life corning' of the whites to America the Mlsidtwlppli rher Was known by a different name ecry few miles In Its courxc. Uach tribe that dwelt alouff lt banka gave It n name, and more than 30 of these local designation1 desig-nation1 aro preserved In the narratives of the early travelers. Sportsmen's enthusiasm Is not nl-Svaya nl-Svaya contagions: It worked distinctly the other way In fhucaae of a resident of llnysldr, Me., who recently ni stopped oti'thfS highway liy a parly of sportnmen and made to wait with them an hour and n half, so that he would not scare awny n deer which others of the hunting party were trylug to drlvo out of the bordering wood. A late ofllclal report shows that, contrary to common belief, caties of religious mnnlrt arc rare In the lirltlsh Islrs. It aho dlseloii ihe nlraugc fact that morr mental nlwrrallon Is devel oped among the tribe of peddlers than among nny other cls, physicians mid druggiMH coming next. Melancholia prevails most In Ireland. I 'I'll.- archer llsh has a natural blow I gun. Thin Hiilmnl poKtetscs the curious property of being able to nlioot drop of water from Ita mouth with extraordinary extraor-dinary ncui.iri.oy lo i(usldecubhi dls-lanccH. dls-lanccH. 'i'lils singular faculty Is of imc to tin animal In securing Its food. A fly 01 miiall Insect passing oer the water hat very little chance of cKcopo fiom the deadly aim of the archer fish. The drop of water brings down tho In-ecl, In-ecl, which Is then Incontinently 1c- OIIICll. K.crlmciiti) arc being made In Ailomi In tho csUibllslnncnt of carrier pigeon nictikciiger kervlco between re-inoto re-inoto milling' canipx and the nearest town or laihray shipping points, tio fur at tried the service luia proved successful suc-cessful and very valuable. The trails nut from home of the hirire ciinma arc long unci dlmciitt to tmtcrse at times, and the cairler pigeons Insure n great saving of time in exchanging communications. com-munications. l'lie thousand liortes In one bunch were roiimb-d up on the. I'lathcail Indian In-dian lCM-Tvattoii In MontHiiu a weeU'or ho slnee. So large a hand of horse I" hddnm seni now except on a few of the Indian reervntloin when theieln an ilnleatricted range. J'or alniont a rtvtslc before, the bunch wan gnthrrcd In til Indians and half-btceds weje M'ourlng the alles, ciiijons hiuI inouululii hides, driving every horse they found toward the cotftpion center, ic,ady for Ihe annual cutting out Into InillvMitfnlll' ownpit liamti. |