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A workman in a vineyard in Napa valley, Cal, committed suicide the other day by jumping into a cask of wine and drowning.

The outside seats of the New York Fifith avenue stages are now largely patronized by ladies in the evening, and consequently the avenue has quite a coaching club parade every night.

Says a London cable: "The subject is fast resolving into the question whether the Queen's jubilee is to be an incident of Buffulo Bill's capture of London, or whether Buffalo Bill is an incident of the Jubilee."

A law taxing cats in that state ten cents "per capita" is projected by a legislstor of Georgia.

Mexico reports a big business boom, with a great rush of foreign capital.

A naval officer, writing home, says that the Japanese calkers who labored on his vessel did three times as much work as the same number of our navy yard work men.

A book of rules for playing lawn tennis has been published, but it omits the most important rule of all for beginners, which is: First get your lawn. --Louisville Courier-Journal.

A pension is claimed by a Little Rock woman on the ground of nervous debility produced by seeing a wounded Federal soldier's leg amputated.

Lots of pretty girls in New York weat nutmeg around their neck as a charm against malaria. Young men have it spinkled on top of a glass of milk and things for the same purpose. --Omaha World.