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Show JT "' "eeaaaBBBBj "-V g ' ' i i in , A malicious scoundrel buried a spike-studded plank on a uyle path near Milwaukee. About 200 bicyclists passed i over it and had to walk home. 1 A swinging sofa is the latest con- j irivancc for parlor use. It has all the j itdvantngcs of the hammock, without , its perils. Engaged lovers who use it I 1 never "fall out." J Ether was administered to Mrs. Mary Whltten, of Sallad9burg, Pa., by j a dentist who was about to extract some j of her teeth. Before the teeth were pulled the woman was dead. h At the marriage of 0. L. Brightwell and Mrs. S. J. Hodges, both residents of Platte county, Mo., a son of the groom nctcd as best man, and a son i of the bride stood up with her. i A lamp-wick which does not re- 1 quire trimming has been invented. It I is a thick coil of clay, perforated with minute holes, through which the oil ascends by capillary attraction. An alien is not permitted to nc-quiro nc-quiro a title to land in Bermuda, either by purchase or inheritance. If a woman who owns Innd there marries a foreigner, for-eigner, she forfeits her real estate. A ricii Parisian lost ail his wealth except $20,000, and died of excessive I grief. Ilis pauper brother proved' to be his heir, and whenlhe heard of his inheritance he died of excessive joy. v Here is one of the questions which ' candidates for appointment as school teachers in Abilene, Kan-., were required re-quired to answer: "Why does a horse walk backward while eating grass, and n cow walk forward?" A stout gentleman in Holton, Kan., who weighs 320 pounds, lias for the past six weeks been trying to reduce his avoirdupois by long and frequent rides on horseback. Up to date, it is only the horse that has lost flesh. Henry Russell, the composer, was once simrinir in nubile his song "There's a Good Time Coming," when he was staggered by a gentleman arising in the audience and gravely asking: "Won't you oblige us with the date?" Some of the milk wagons in Ant- werp nre drawn by dogs. There are, as a rule, three dogs to each vehicle, one between the shufts and one on each side. The driver is usually a woman in wooden shoes, who walks beside the wagon. A constable ia Shelbyville, Ind., who for 20 years has been somewhat lame from chronic rheumatism, called on a widow to serve a legal writ. She . f drenched' him with scalding water, and he fled in terror, forgetting all about his rheumatic pains. Some of the convicts in French ,?" prisons nro'paid for' their labor, and earn 'about 35 cents a day. Half of this they are permitted to spend for m extra food, etc. The remainder is saved B l arid given to them on the completion m of their term of imprisonment. M |