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Show It is now predicted by an architect that the Washington monument will not stand more than seventy-five years. Its great weight will crush the foundation, and it will fall. All we ask is that it shall last as long as it was under construction. Dr. Keith was summoned from England Eng-land recently to perform a surgical operation opera-tion in this country. The Lancet says it is the first incident of the kind since 1776. t. t Mrs. Hicks, a young Virginian, has a husband in the Penitentiary, and deliberately turned house-breaker to get a five years' sentence to the same prison, that she might be near him. |