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A  Mkw  York  lemonade  dealer  is  said  to  have 
Increjised  his  sales  largely  from  having  been  seen 
twice  to  drlnlc  his  own  lemonade,  but  It  Is  not 
told  whether  he  was  seen  t/>  take  an  antidote  Im¬ 
mediately  artenvard. 
A  BOYisTi  novice  lu  smoking  turned  deadly  pale 
n-ni\  Mifnw  nwnv  Ills  clffaf.  Salfl  hc,  “Thar’s 
PERSONAL  ITEMS 
Dollar  for  the  Pocket  Edition  of 
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cst  Press.  Over  1,100  now 
use.  It  will  press  one  ton 
hour.  Ten  tons  of  either 
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ar-y^-,  a  B.  B.  box  car. 
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“UAcnit-OK  or  oare”  Is  Cornell's  latest  degree 
THE  widow  Van  Cott  says  she  has  convertei 
'^"the  Tlev.  Samuel  liulclicr,  Premier  Bishop  c 
Ireland,  18  dead. 
MR.  Moutimkr  Coi.i.iNS,  the  English  poet  an 
novelist,  is  dead. 
PKOP.  Uayde.v  hopes  txj  complete  the  geologic, 
survey  01  Colorado  this  summer. 
“TnxT  Crazy  Horse  of  the  pres.s’’  Ls  whattli 
Uichmoud  Whig  calls  the  Herald. 
ir  is  proposed  U)  seird  an  amateur  brass  band 
Montana  and  make  the  Indians  go  esU 
A  Kocky  mountain  editor  descrtbfs the hanglt 
of  two  murderers  as  a  “  necktie  Icsttval." 
The  Uev.  W.  S.  Perry,  formerly  an  Eplseop 
clergyman  in  Nashua,  has  boon  elecU-d  Bishop 
lowti.  . 
THE  Aihemeum  describes  the  Turk  as  an  Infld 
,vho  Ldleves  In  God  and  llnds  his  enemies  In  tl 
Chrtstlnns. 
SiTTiNti  Bin.n  proposes  to  winter  In  Can^a,  ai 
the  Canadian  authorities  call  lor  troops  to  gua 
Its  frontier. 
DON  CAiihos's  recent-  heroism  In  a  deutlsl  s  ch. 
■niiiv  eoiillrms  our  hellet  that  he  is  a  gent  urn 
Ib  I  ContalnR  IS.OOO  Wor<3s  KuU'B  of 
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to  Dlvan-tiUlshed  in  the  all 
Bays  an  Omaha  oblUiary 
penman,  a  aysiemalle  bool 
ailc  diHiker.”  It  explains 
Two  young  men  h.avc  Jui 
Orleans,  but  the  graxlhS* 
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A  svECiAi-  from  Bockbrlc 
says  that  Speaker  Kerr's 
favorable,  anil  his  coiailtlc 
cal. 
AN  exchange  Euays  tht 
weigh  fifty  pounds  apiece, 
weigh  more  than  that,  (• 
them. 
It  Is  now  (.Icllnltely  8< 
Banker  will  begin  their  1 
t.hc  iirst  of  October,  and 
Year’s. 
tt  was  rather  pei’sonal  In  a  California  news¬ 
paper  man  to  chronicle  the  purchase  of  a  mule  hy 
a  brother  editor  as  “  a  remarkable  Instance  of 
self-possession.” 
THE  Emperor  of  the  Moors,  It  seems,  has  been 
seUlng  hundreds  of  his  rehelllous  subjecte  Into 
Seiy.  andBcver.nl  thousand  more  of  them  still 
r<^nuiib  bourid  lu  MOfObco# 
Whndem.  Piiit.t.ii’S  put  the  paint  on  very  much 
...  rr.rtlan  does,  but  he  doesn’t  wear  the  rlngln 
Monthly  Wnanziues, 
®  It  Bents 
«  tlicin 
is  all. 
Arthur’s  Home  Magiwlne...  . . 
♦Demorost’s  Fashion  .MiiKazine . 
Peterson's  babes’  Mugazlne . 
Borlbncr’s  Month  y  . 
Bcleuco  of  . . 
St.  Nicholas . . . , 
Weeklies  fl.iTEUAUY')^ 
Appleton'S  Journal . . . 
Danbury  News...  .  . 
Mrcslde  Companion . .  . 
Frank  liCBllu'a  Boys  tuid  tbrls . 
Harper’s  Weekly. . . 
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•Hearth  and  Home . 
Wavcrly  MtinAttne . . . 
IKELIG  1008.1 
niustmed^Chrisiian  Weekly . . 
Methodist,... .  . ] 
pJesbnerlanVJohn  Knox  EngVuvVuit)' 
,  Texas  watermelons 
tVe’ve  seen  some  that 
(>.,  after  you’ve  eaten 
in  her  form.  Those  who  were  in  the  aisle  behind 
wore  not  ho  blind  however,  and  gave  It  a  wide 
hoith  as  they  passed  by. 
THE  report  that  Miss  Thompson,  the  young 
English  artist  who  painted  the  ••  Rull  Gall,”  has 
forsaken  mUltary  for  socre-d  art.  Is  pronounced 
anything  but  correct  by  the  l.ondon  Academy. 
Miss  Thompson  could  not  turn  Koman  catholic, 
being  such  already,  and  slie  is  now  engaged  oii  a 
picture  of  the  battle  ot  Inkermau. 
An'BNDANCK  .at  the  Centennial  Is  not  as  good  as 
It  was.  Boardlug-house  keepers  who  started  out 
early  In  the  season  wltii  roast  beet  and  plum 
pudding  for  dinner  every  day,  and  were  very  par¬ 
ticular  about  Who  they  took,  now  understand  all 
the  mysterlea  of  hash  manufacture,  and  chase  up 
every  man  with  a  valise  In  his  hand  for  two 
aQuares  from  the  depot. 
Tuts  world  is  full  01  bttUir  disappointments  and 
sudden  trials  that  break  upon  us  like  thunder 
from  a  cloudless  sky,  but  at  no  Hme  Is  the  soul  of 
patient,  much-endurlng  man  so  hardly  tried  as 
when  he  goes  to  shave  himself  in  a  groat  hurry 
Sunday  morning  and  discovers  at  the  tlrat  pull 
that  his  wife  had  opened  a  can  of  peaches  with  his 
razor  Saturday  night. 
AN  Italian  now  stopping  at  the  Irving  House, 
Philadelphia,  has  a  wooden  monmnent  three  or 
four  feet  square  In  his  possession,  on  which  Is  an 
immense  number  of  llgiu-es  representing  various 
(Stages  of  the  world’s  history,  from  the  creation  to 
the  crucifixion,  sliowlng  great  skill  and  patlenoe, 
and  revealing  hy  the  aid  of  a  glans  some  fine 
work.  This  ufTalr  Is  said  to  be  seven  hundred 
yew's  old. 
01'  all  the  celebrated  lovers  of  George  Sand,  two 
only  surA-lvo— Jules  Bandeau,  the  drat  love  of  that 
passionate,  undisciplined  heart,  and  Prince  N-a- 
poleon.  Jules  Sandeau,  who  is  the  first  novelist 
who  ever  gained  by  reason  of  bis  novels  alone  a 
faiiieull  at  the  Academy,  Is  siUl  a  very  tlne-look- 
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the  lady  in  her  conBervatory,  the  matron  with  ker 
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from  us;  sull  “Us  memory  is  ever 
und  is  renewed  by  Us  appearance  every  week,  brin 
r'.l«-L.vcr.  W..re.l.J 
that  our  predictions  in  the  January 
being  more  than  fulfltled.  We  have  »ent  It  mora 
tban  Aw  kiMuirrd  names,  and  we  learn  that  sub 
Bcrlptlons  have  been  pouring  In  In  like 
from  all  parts  Of  thecountry.despitethe  hard  tl  • 
Long  may  It  continue  to  be  what  it  Is-a  pow 
good  In  the  land.— Aat-at’A  Frknd. _ _ 
Officers  ol  Agricultural  Societies  and  Club^ 
_ _  frn  pun.  If  they  will,  materhilly  aid  \ 
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pleasant  and  comely  presence,  and  or  poculJarly 
graeeful  and  winning  manners  even  tor  a  French¬ 
man. 
IT  win  bo  news  sm-prlslng  to  many  to  learn  that 
the  brave  General  Custer  was  of  foreign  birth, 
no  was  horn  in  Isprlngen,  near  Pforshelm,  in 
Badon,  Germany,  and  emigrated  when  a  child 
wiLti  his  parents,  who  settled  In  New  Homely, 
Harrison  County,  O.  Formerly  his  name  was 
written  “  Custar.”  since  his  return  from  a  trip 
to  Germany,  Ixowevor,  he  appears  to  have  written 
“Custer,’’  his  original  lainlly  name,  however, 
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