Show THE ATTEMPTED ROBBERY some additional particulars about the attempt to wreck and rob the C P express near colfax colf ax last week wea indicate that the robbers were surprised the train bound east evidently not being the one they intended to attack they had not donned their masks and when the passengers men women and children rushed out of tho the ca cars rs hel bep ter Bk elter the highwaymen ran about in confusion giving calls and signals to each other the they y numbered somewhere between six and a dozen officers are scouring the tile country in in search but latest coast const exchanges state that no satisfactory clew lias has beav found of the robbers prom from the bungling way in which they bell behaved aved it is conjectured that they are all green hands at the business men named eckert and guthrie were having a fist fight in cincinnati a friend of guthrie named Se egara stood by with a drawn knife in his hand this displeased eckert and after whipping guthrie lie turned to and said throw away that knife and ill fight you too declined to disarm himself thenia then Th if you wont give me a fair fight cried eckert take thial and lie shot him through the head bead with a pistol which was obligingly handed to him subsequently a sister of went to the jail where E eckert c was confined and attempted to kill hr him by shooting for having murdered her brother the event had turned the lady insane TUE tun WOULD WORLD has had exhibitions from the champion faster the champion cater eater the champion sleeper the champion jumper the champion walker and the champion everything that requires neither skill nor usefulness many ny of f the lower animals will beat the record of an any I y of these champions A bear or a coon will beat griscom or tanner auner a hog will beat the great virginia glutton a rocky mountain sheep or kangaroo will beat sam patch and a good mule will willouie out tho best in any anyone one of these exploits can only approach the possibilities bili ties cs of a not very high toned bruto brute A FARMERS x IN q the west f find ind barbed wire wire a very convenient fencing material but are irate at the charges of the manu manufacturers facture rs owning the patents the farmers protective asso association of iowa is contesting the validity of the patents and 18 ia rejoicing I over a discovery which they think will make good their position A homemade home made aade barbed wire fence hag has been found on the tho farm of samuel freeman put up six years before the invention for which ch the ti patents were obtained and sections of this fence arc are to be produced in t tire tur STANDING armies of E europe aurore number over men besides the still more numerous reserves who may bo be called out at any moment more than one in every of the population ia is a soldier in active service reckoning one able bodied roan man to every five inhabitants each twenty two men sustain one soldier the U S army is is only strong and 2000 inhabitants or each men sustain a soldier A GENTLEMAN named pitzer went to hot springs ark to be cured of nervousness but tho the treatment he lie received there rather aggravated grava ted liis ilia disease three men lured him into what purported to be a real estate office locked the doors presented pistols and robbed liim him the excitement caused a seand his lis recovery ia is not probable THE CHICAGO news requiems that somebody explode a coal oil stove under odonovan rossa and send in the bill of expenses if it be possible for a person to explode from an inflated opinion of his own importance rosaa wont need any stove THERE was a spir spiritualistic camp meeting at lake pleasant hass A masquerade ball was ohe of the events of the affair it was actually believed that some sonic of the fantastically dressed dancers were materialized zed spirits |