Show I 1 FIVE romay catholic priests are I 1 attached to the british army in 11 agypt r I 1 y I 1 I 1 1 1 A rine statue kT AruE to gladstone k I 1 r erected by I 1 sir N ir slay may of the match ai it firm may has ling been un 1 L belied at bow in the cast end of london t THE KENTUCKY penitentiary 7 numbers among its inmates ten t children under the age of 15 alic o children associate as do the other k prisoners with the abandoned and anil the vicious A BROTHER of the tho late president 1 I garneld garfield has lived for many years cars in in northern michigan on oil a small I 1 and sterile farm the grand haven flaven 1 papers say that ho lie is now building I 1 1 a fine house and ind barn with I 1 1 money given him by mis garneld garfield I 1 pl ax indianapolis GIRL forbidden I 1 I 1 belier by her parents to marry the I 1 I 1 man of her choice pretended to be I 1 abundantly consoled by the promise of a grand birklid birt birthday lid ay party k when all the were assembled on that occasion she silo walked in on I 1 I 1 I 1 1 the arm of her lover who had within 1 1 the hour been made her husband r by ft a clergyman round the corner CHARLES the eminent I 1 I 1 E english author is thus described by somebody who saw him lately lie ile is h tall slender and wears vears I 1 glasses his hair is gray and sparse ou on the top of his head lie ile lias has a short full beard which is a also gray a face that is pleasant plent in ill I 1 conversation but stern in in repose 17 and a general air of determination and stron strong 0 will A philadelphia COMEDIAN by the name of george howard is 1 recovering from a deafness that threatened to incapacitate liim him fora time ho lie could not hear licar his i cues and his wife sitting in the audience had to signal him to proceed I 1 t when his interlocutor had ceased V kr t to speak so cleverly was this infirmity e 1 concealed that its existence was vas never suspected by the public 1 A FORTUNE TuN F HUNTER on th the a way vay pointed out by the late horace I 1 greeley to the young man stopped 1 in pittsburg pa en e route for colorado last winter H inter and borro borrowed ired 1 1400 from a friend telling him at I 1 the same time that he lie assumed some I 1 risk in giving 1 him the money as ho be wanted to invest in mines which ft might turnout turn out well and might not 1 A few days ago ago 0 the tile pittsburg man mail received by express a gold brick worth 1 1000 haq a a token taken of friendship IV I 1 I 1 I 1 THE tiie LATEST Pail tray age A ge figures edew a greater number of miles of I 1 il railway constructed during the month of august than ever before in any A similar period in tho the history I 1 I 1 odthe of the country the total is 1274 miles ofner of new main track exclusive of side tracks laid on seventy different I 1 lines exceeding e by moie more than miles the construction during I 1 july which it was thought ii would not be again equaled the tile 1 construction for the eight months 1 IK e of the present year on oil lines in in rak I 1 32 states has been miles of V IV main main track the construction for 4 tho aca ocaris r a at miles mile the tile largest number of miles is in iowa next in new york third in wisconsin el JOURNALS give an interesting te account of the performance 1 1 of a locomotive on the great 1 I 1 northern railroad which recently carried the duke of edinburgh from to london i miles mile in three hours or at the rate rato of 62 miles per hour bour thia this i peed has frequently been equaled and sometimes surpassed for a short distance 1 but is remarkable as the average rate for such a long journey the engine had driving wheels eight feet m in diameter or two feet larger than the wheels of american engines gines to accomplish the trip in the time given the wheel must have bave made mado revolutions per minute eor or more than thau in ahr three ce hours I 1 aa A Q Z I 1 11 |