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A reporter from China says tht tha Prenoh, after being defeated at LangSon, withrtrew to Chu. Weü, the lieathens gavo thom somothing to Chu 3n, no inistak. A hen in a neighboring town haa ust died at the age oí liftoen years. Aha, that accounts for all tho wayworn, eartlijveary eggs I have met at the breakhiSl table during the past decade. Tho woight of a bushol of bcans has been fixed by law at sixty pounds. Reckoning from that basis a Boston girl must be full ninety pounds heaviei on Sunday evenings than at any other time during the week. A telegraph report says that the daughtor of a New Jersey farmer ran off with one of her father's hands. Il does not state which hand, but if il was the ono the old gentleman used to slap mosquitos with it was a most unfilial act. A Massachusetts boy recently swallowed a largo five-cornered jackstons and at last accounts was doing well. If the email boy continúes to evolf at this rate hp will soon supplant the oslrich and billygoat in the affections of humorists. Acoording to the eternal fitness oi thiogs negies should drive coal carts, cross-eyed men should be detectives, sour old maids should run pickles factorics, deaf mutos should be barbera, and go-ahead boys should be district messengers. But somehow it is otherwise ordered. The explosivos used by the insurgents of the United States of Colombia must be very mild. During the seigo of Cartagena a shell entered a bedroom and burst without disturbing the slumbers of its four young lady occupants. I could do more execution by hurling a can of Chicago beef with my strong nght arm. An oatrich egg weighs nearly thlrty times as much as an average hen's eLg. but to hear the hen's remarks after laying an oeg ono would suppose she had beat the ostrich out of sight. It is a good deal the same way with human beings. Some will make more fuss and brag over their little thinshelled achievoments than others do over an invention or work that comes historical.-