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Show Puoham.Y the newspaper writers in Italy, England, Germany and France who so lightly referred to the imperfections'' imper-fections'' of the I'nited Slates constitution constitu-tion and the necessity" for its amendment amend-ment wore hardly conscious of Iheir sublime Impertinence, but there is reason rea-son to believe that they will presently perceive their folly. Niitwti'I1staxiin tho supposed preference of English papers to unfavorable unfav-orable criticism of American affairs it in noticeable that even tho most conservative con-servative of her great papers, tho Times, and a majority of others de- j nounced the Maliu and defended tho , people of New Orleans even more I warmly than the most pronounced of J the American press. HlssiA does not carry on public works on a small scale. She is about to construct a trans-Siberian railroad, w hich will be pushed to speedy completion. com-pletion. When completed it will be 4.7H;'i miles long. How a road like that must miiKe the American railway magnate's month water. The pickings pick-ings and stealings ought to make half a dozen Goulds and Vanderbills. Two men of Palmersville, Tenii., recently re-cently cut down a tree. On the trunk, about eight feet from the stump, was a gnarl which covered a little hollow. On cutting into the hollow, which had been completely overgrown, they found inside a frog which was lifeless but well preserved. By counting tho grains it was estimated that the tree was at least thirty years old. The frog had been preserved for years in "his air tight home. |