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Show Worse Than English Sparrow. RabbltB woro originally introduced into Australia by a squatter, near Melbourne, Mel-bourne, who thought that the Bight of them would remind him of home. They did, but they cost him $250,000 before be-fore they wero dono with him, and that little reminiscence is costing the colonteSr $3,500,000 per annum. A pair of rabbits in five years are capable capa-ble of producing a progeny of 20.000,-000, 20.000,-000, and in Australia thoy seem to have cted up to their capacity. Supremacy. "There is one Btate In the Union in which women havo the upper hand without the aid of tho ballot," "Which one Is that?" "The stato of matrimony." |