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STARBEAMS

The Hartford Terea describes a crank as a person with a conscience and a bobby
George W. Childs never eats anything at the big dinners he gives. Even level-headed people have some peculiarity
Pittsburg is putting all of its electric wires under ground, and is pleased with the disposition she is making of them.
Baby shows are always popular if they are properly advertised. A little baby show at Bloomington III, netted alont $1,000.
Russell Sage doesn't wear diamonds. He could afford them, but prefers cheap cameos. He always did incline to ways of economs
"Black bass caught in the Virginia rivers are noted for the immense size of their mouths. It is the same way with some of her politicians
Buffalo Bill has been promoted by the English papers. He is a general among them. The Wild West has paralyzed the old English town of London.
Kansas City is not the only place where the water is murky with mud. They complain in New York that Croton water is so thick that it won't boil.
Nebraska City, Neb., has cow ordinance which the people hold in contempt and violate an enterprialing citizen arreate the strays and has for sometime made $1 a day.
Miss Dora Wheeler, the artist, has been favored with valuable Boston commissions. She is to paint the portraits of T. B. Aldriet, W. D. Howells, and James lianell Lowell.
Selling hymns is not a bad business if one can write the kind that is in demand. It is reported that W. H. Doane. of Cincinnati makes $20,000 in the hymn business per year
It is said that the emporor of Germany loves the dance so fondly that he would be on the floor atont half the time were it not for the doctor's prohibition. The emperor need to be one of the boys, but age puts on the brakes.
Halloway, the pull-man, cared nothing for relatives. Although his cry was purly the blood, yet at his death he willed his immense fortune to strangers and left two sisters penniless.
In numbers Harvard and Yale colleges have been outstripped. Columbia college, in all of her departments, has been a larger number of students than any other college in the United States.
President Cleveland spoke of William A. Wheeler as "the vice president." This will give Dana of the Sun another chance for war upon president. The Sun should cork up its venom.
Russia is cultivating sunflowers for fuel. What is to hinder the "Sunflower State" from doing the same thing? There is no waste. Every particle of the plant can be utilized, from the root to the crown.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has written many pretty and thoughtful thingsm but he will travel the immortal Youth in "The Deacon's One Horse Shay," and will safely sail the seas of the time in "The Chambered Nautilus."
The man who passes an Englishman and makes no contribution is "a good one." The disposition of the race is well illustrated in the motto adopted by an English feryman which reads "no crown no cross."
In England, the Indians in the Buffalo Bill Wild West do not have much of an idea of royalty. They regard the Prince of Wales as a chief without a scalp and without a scalp, and with them that sort of an indian is very ordinary.
The state capital building of New York is still unfinished, and yet it has cost the state$17,000.000 and it is estimated that $10,00.000 more will have to be expended upon it before it is completed. New York politicians are nothing unless magnificent and coat.
In Norway there is a church I have enough to seat 1,000 people, made entirely of paper mache. Paper is put to all sorte of uses in these days, and yet new and important uses are being found for it every day. Now it performs all parts of services, from a bustle to a steam car wheel. An exchange describes some people as like a rocking horse, full of motion, but having no progress. A good example of this sort of a creature is the blustering man. He would have it appear that he is swinging the world around by the tail, but all the time things are really sitting down on him as fast as possible.
Sam Jones is again in the South. When last heard from he was at Chattanooga fighting the saloons of the city. He will make a prohibition canvass of Tennessee and say the pertinent things of the campaign. His manner of thought and style of expression is well adapted to a crusade against rum.