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PERSONAL  ITEMS. 
Oi,E  I5UI.T.  Will  give  concerls  In  Paris  next  win¬ 
ter. 
Hon.  (Jeokoe  Uancuoi-'t,  cx-Mlnlster  to  Berlin,  Is 
at  Newport. 
ONE  liuTKlred  yeai'3  ago  we  were  flglitlng  tor 
liberty.  Now  we  arc  lighting  for  bread  and  butter. 
Besides  the  California  pears  on  exhibition  at 
the  Centennial,  there  arb  a  great  many  bridal 
pall's. 
AN  American  girl,  Julia  Sinclair,  has  Just  taken 
her  degree  as  doctor  of  medicine  at  the  University 
of  Zurich. 
llENui  llocHEFOuT  ts  Said  to  Ijc  seHou.sly  111  at 
Oeneva  frohi  dropsy  complicated  with  hypertro- 
))liy  of  the  heart.  ! 
An  Indiana  man  has  planted  six  acres  of  water¬ 
melons.  lie  has  also  planted  a  large  crop  of  bull¬ 
dogs  and  man-traps. 
Mu.  OEOitoK  Smith,  the  Assyrian  c.xcavator,  Is 
expected  home  very  shortly  from  his  tlUrd  expe¬ 
dition  to  MnsopOLamla. 
yiR.  MOTUBY  Is  spending  a  few  weeks  In  England 
at  the  country  residence  of  his  son-ln-law,  Brlni# 
ley  Sheridan,  In  Devonshire. 
The  price  of  cirea.s.slans  Is  lower  now  than  at 
any  time  since  the  Crlmcau  War.  The  fall  of  the 
Sult  an  has  broken  the  marker.. 
The  Abdul  A'/.lz  of  the  Western  continent  Is  not 
dead  yet.  Some  may  l.hlnk  that  reference  Is  made 
lo  Brigham  Vouug.  If  they  do,  all  right. 
IK  you  feel  sick  and  debilitated  from  onice  con- 
lliiement,  remember  that  out  In  the  cour.t.ry  thoy 
ure  paying  ?l  .25  an  tmre  tor  mowing  gra.s8. 
;mk.  Pikkuepont,  our  new  Minister  to  England, 
sails  this  week.  Be  wlU  rcUln  Messrs.  HolTman 
and  Uheseborough  as  the  StKU-etarles  of  Legation. 
The  death  Is  announced  Of  (lustav  Ekmaim,  the 
well-known  Swedish  Iron-master,  who  has  done 
much  for  the  development  of  the  Iron  Didustry  In 
Sweden. 
LEHisi.ATiNii  Is  a^ame  lu  which  one  faction  tries 
to  kill  all  of  t)ie  bills  proposed  by  the  other  side, 
d'hc  people  pay  for  the  game  and  have  no  fun  In 
the  playing. 
Enw'D  Kvekeit  Parkek,  a  gr.aduateof  Harvard, 
Is  preparing  (or  the  stage  at  the  Boston  School  of 
Oratory.  His  Komco  Is  said  to  be  a  remarkable 
piece  of  acting. 
TuK  sketches  taken  of  the  Prince  of  Wale's  tour 
In  India  for  The  London  Graphic  have  been  sent 
to  the  C’culennlal  E.\hlbltlon  by  the  proprtelxjrs 
of  that  journal. 
The  State  ol  matrimony  has  no  especial  depart¬ 
ment  at  I  he  Centennial,  but  Its  general  display  of 
exhibits  Is,  In  some  lustaiices,  remarkably  fresh 
and  lilt  cresting. 
The  woman  who  runs  the  steam  engine  in  the 
pavllllon  at  the  centoimlal  Exposition  Sfvys  that 
I  he  work  requires  far  lcs.s  attenllou  than  to  take 
care  of  a  child  all  day. 
'I'liK  Khedive  of  Egypt  has  devoted  the  thirteen 
thousand  pounds  sterling,  contributed  to  erect  A 
monument  to  blm,  to  the  erection  of  a  great  pub¬ 
lic  school  In  Ale.xandrla,  open  to  all  nationalities. 
BUTUKUKOKP  B.  HA\K.slstlic  sciilor  In  yeai-s  of 
the  seven  principal  presidential  candidates,  being 
llfty-four.  Bristow  is  the  youngest,  forty-tour. 
Blaine  Is  forty-six,  Conkllng  forty-seven,  .Morton 
lltty-throo. 
No  man  can  loaf  around  a  Police  Court  six 
months  and  see  what  fun  It  Is  to  flue  a  man  $25 
and  get  $5  of  It  as  fees,  without  feeling  convinced, 
that  duty  to  humanit  y  calls  upon  lilm  to  become 
a  .lusttce  himself. 
BROOKi.YN  AROPs:  The  Duke  Of  Edinburgh  Isoff 
yachting  In  the  Mediterranean,  and  the  Duchess 
has  gone  back  to  bw  papa  at  felt.  Petersburg)!. 
Thetvay  these  two  young  hearts  heat  as  one  li 
something  that  Heaven  cannot  contemplate  with¬ 
out  a  sigh. 
Queen  Victoria’s  new  title  of  Empress  has 
been  improved  upon  lu  .Tamalca.  A  recent  iiroc- 
laraUlon  Issued  there  cominciiccs  I  hits :  »  Vic.- 
torla,  hy  the  Grace  of  God  of  the  United  Kingdom 
of  Greal  Britain  and  Ireland  Queen,  Defender  of 
the  Faith  and  of  Jamaica  Supremo  Lady." 
John  51  ai-colm  Limtow,  In  an  English  hook,  de¬ 
clares  that  the  Declaration  of  Independence  has 
been  a  source  of  Indulte  mtschief,  and  that  the 
passionate  declamatory  rUelorlc  of  that  document 
has  left  a  sUln  to  this  hour  on  most  of  the  politi¬ 
cal  oratory  and  writing  of  the  United  Stales. 
5lRS.  CKAiK,  the  author  of  “  John  Halifax,  Gcn- 
Uemau,"  Is  erecting  a  drinking  fountain  under  a 
railway  arch  near  her  residence  in  Kent,  England, 
and  In  addition  there  will  be  a  constant  supply  of 
penny  loaves  and  a  money  box,  under  the  suppo¬ 
sition  that  those  who  partake  of  the  bread  will 
pay  for  It. 
‘‘5lH.  5tooi)y  was  never  known,”  says  an  ex¬ 
change,  “  to  give  way  for  even  a  raomentto  anger 
or  Impatlmice.’’  Then  it's  probable  he  never  hixd 
occasion  to  lake  a  short  cut  across  the  fields  on  a 
warm  morning  to  eatcb  a  railroad  train,  luul  hud 
when  he  got  to  the  further  end  that  tho  frugal 
farmer  had  init  up  a  high  board  fence  and  sia- 
tloned  a  blear-eyed  bull-dog  there  ns  sole  occu¬ 
pant. 
GNK  of  the  Indian  Princes  who  came  to  Calcutt  a 
to  meet  the  Prince  of  Wale.s  died  the  other  day 
from  hard  drink.  This  tvas  the  young  Maharajah 
or  Putilala.  5Vhen  he  was  ten  years  old  he  suc¬ 
ceeded  to  an  Income  of  $2,600,000  a  j'ear,  and  he 
(lied  at  the  age  of  twenty-four,  worn  out  by  dissi¬ 
pation.  Uls  two  great  passions  were  buying 
jewels  and  getting  drunlc.  Ills  son  and  successor 
Is  a  lad  nve .years  old. 
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W  orld. 
The  sales  exceed  all  other  I, awn  Mowers  combined 
Prlcns  reduced  fur  187*1.  Send  for  Descriptive  Cat- 
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FirST'S  HAy  l.OADKIt,  Jnipnived  lot 
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minutes,  and  take  It  as  ulean  us  hv  the  hand  fork. 
Adaptod  10  all  ordinary  meadow  [and,  and  to  any 
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MooKH’B  Rural  Nkw-Yorkku  beoamo  a  house¬ 
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•‘going  to  school,”  and,  perhaps,  needs  no  comment 
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BAND  ALL’S 
Practical  Shepherd 
A  COMPLETE  TREATISE 
ON  THE  BEEEDIHG,  MANAGEMENT 
AND  DISEASES  OP  SHEEP. 
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LL.  D.,  (author  ef  **  Bheep  Husbandry  In  the  South. ” 
•Fine  Wool  Sheep  Husbandry,”  Ac.,)  la  the  SUin.l. 
ard  Authority  on  the  Subject.  It  is  the  most  oom- 
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bandry  ever  pubUsUed,  and  (sa  the  New  England 
Farmer  says)  "should  bo  in  tho  hand  and  head  of 
every  person  owning  sheep.’’ 
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ALLEN’S 
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THEIR  HISTORY,  BREEDING  AND 
MANAGEMENT. 
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