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Day
13
Month
July
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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It Ii ti Id tbat bout 80,000 type-wrlters are eold yearly. DtI(1 quick, of New York, dropped dead nhlle laughlng at a Joke tbe other dtr. Tbe egp: product of thls country Is esl traated to be 457,000,000 dozens, 45 eggs to eacb fowl. Tbere are 1,499 llccneed places In Boston wbere llquor is aol.l, a decrease of 891 In four years. Tbere Is sald to be a popular dlme noTeliit wbo bas killed ooe mllllon Indlans- In bis atolles. Ruskin bas wrltten slxty-four books, and hls aunual reoelpts from hls publlsher reach $30,000. Tbe new twentj dollar sllrer certltlcatcs wlll bear a llkeness of tbe late ex-Secretary Manning. Lord Stanley, Lord Lansdowno's sucecssor as GoTernor General of Canada, leavet England on Juue 4 for the Dominion. James O. Blalne bas leased hls cottage at Bar liarbnr to Êlltott F. Sbepard, the new editor of tbe New York Mail and Èzprcu. Mrs. Francés Hodgson Burnttt, Prof. Marl Mltchell and T. B. Aldrlch wlll be tinonp: the aurnmer restdents of Ljno, Maas. Queen Victoria travelcd through Europe wltb so mucb luggage tbat It took an hoor to transfer it from tbe train to tbe boat at lluanlog. Stnalor Butler, of South Carolina, Is a direct descendant of the Dukes of Ormond, of Ireland, and he la entltled to bear a coat of ar nis. A monumental statute of Lord Beacooffield la to crected at Maldstonr, wblch place he represented lu Parllament more taan flltj jcars ago. Jn Baltlmore It Is proposed to put letter boxea on the street cara. Tbli wlll Lrlng a letter to the postoflicc from any part of the city In a half an liour. Haruko, Empress of Japan, wlll Tltlt America next winter, travellng In state wlth a dozen malds of honor, numberless officials, and every Incident of luxury. The Methodlsts now In conference In New Tork have lncurred &n expenso of not less than t50,000 for tbelr month's occupatlon of tbe Metropolitan Opera-house. Thlrty nomen make a living by Ing In tbe open Board ot Trade la Chicago, and half that number do buslneM through commlsslon firms on tbe regular board. Charles Dlckens's nurse, Mary Weller Glb8on, was burled on April 23. She was generally regarded as tbe prototype of Mary, th pretty housemald In the Plckwick papera, Aman at Anoka, Mlnu., who was expected to die for weeks pastirom the eSects ot a allver dollar tbat he bad swallowed, began to lmproTe lately and Is now reported all ilght. Tbe United States Flsh commlsslon Is experlmentlng wlth shad culture as far south as Atlanta. Tbree milllon eggs wlll be hatcbed and dlstrlbuted lt tbe streams of tbat state. The Sweetwater dam Just completed at San Diego, Cal., at a cost of $800,000, Is sald tobe twenty feet hlgher tban any dam In the United States. It Is 90 feet from 1U base to lts crest. Mrs. Ella D. Bentlev, of Donaldsonrllle, Is vlce-presldent of tbe I.oulaiana Press assoclatlon. She is scarccly 30, is a ele ver wrlter and Is popular ainong ber 8ssoclates throughout tbe state. At a religlous meeting In Portland, Mc., an Englishman led the services, a Frencbman offered prayer, an Iiislmwn conducted tbe Inging and a Rustían was the leadlng i Bpeaker. Hon. W. L. Si'ott, the wealthy Peunsylvania íree-trader, has bouirht tbeold Marcy home in Washington, situated near the White House, and will occupy it this winter, lt is said that he paid $50,000 cash for it furnished. His daughter, Mrs. Scott-Townsend, whose diamonds and dinners dazzled Washington's eyes last year, will entertain for him.

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Ann Arbor Democrat