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Show ODD CHIPS AND SLIVERS. A man near Athens, Ua., has been taking tak-ing gold for years from a stream near his farm, which panned gut about SI day. A Springfield (Mo.) man burst a blood vessel in blowing bis nose and nearly bled to death before medical assistance arrived. Cassy Ketchaiu, colored, who nursed Gon. E. R. 8. Canby when be was an infant, in-fant, is living at Crawfordsville, Ind., aged 101. A man has been imposing upon tho good people of Dorchester, Mass., by begging for money to buy an arm to take the place of one he claims to have lost, but which, in reality, is hid under bis clothing. While the driver of Hose No. 1, at Marlboro, Marl-boro, Mass., was exercising his horse, the other morning, the engine house caught fire and was burned to the ground. The driver was the last to report to the alarm call. In Newlrarg, N. Y. the other day, Annie Cochran, aged two years, while playing at a window in the fourth story of a house, fell to the ground Mow, landing on a newly-made flower bed. The child was uninjured. Patsy and Mary O'Rourke, from Londonderry, Lon-donderry, in Ireland, recently arrived in Bloomiugton, 111., after making the long trip alone. They were only seven and five years old, respectively, and they had tags attached to their clothing giving their names and destination. Brown county, Ind., notwithstanding its lack of railway facilities, reports a small surplus in its treasury and no indebtedness. in-debtedness. The wealthiest man in the county is taxed on less than 40,000. The receipts from pensions exceed the value of agricultural products. A little baby at Lichfield, Minn., has figures on its eye. When the baby was about two months old a figure "1" vn discovered just above and at the left of the pupil of the baby's left eye. A short time afterward a figure "3" appeared ap-peared just below the 8 pure "1" and a few days ago a figure "8" became visibls jutf below the figure "3." ., . |