Of General Interest

- There are said to be six kundred and forty-nine widows, by actual count, in Oberlin, O. -The Salt Lake Tribuut, which has to use the worCL very oiten, saves typesetting by abbreviating polygamy to polyg. It sounds rather abrupt, but it means the same thing. - Coffee was first used in Arabia about 1420, and was introduced at Cairo in 1580, at Constantinople in 1664, at Vcnice in 1616, at Paris in 1644, and in London in 1652. - An execution of a horribly cruel nature is reported from Chinkiang, A prisoner was beaten upon the feet at the order of the district magistrate nntil both anklcs were broken and was then forced to stand on tip-toe in a cage uutil he feil dead npon the floor. - A Boston man offers his pet monkey for sale. He put np with the tricks of the cunning brute for a long time, bnt when the monkey took posscssion of the kitchen and bogan throwing knives, forks, dishos and b&ked beans at his owner, the latter concluded that it was time they should part company. - When Miss Sadie Aiken, oí Reeres, Ga., eloped tlie other nigh't, she took with her the family watcíidog. After the marriage ceremony had been performed she wrote a note to her parenta acquainting them with the fact nd imploring their forgiveness, tied it to the dog's collar and Bent him home. - It is interesting to trace the otoIutions oí words and expressiona. Cultirated pcople Bay "How do you do?" Those who are lesa precise 8ay doo? In the backwoods of Tennessee they say "Howdy?" The noble red man of the West says "How?" While the cat on the fenco says "OwP" - Norw'ch Bulletin. - A Fhiladelphia clergyman, who is intensely annoyed by the squeaky shoes of Lis eongregation, thinks that the reason there are so many noisy hoes in church is that the average citizen wears his best slio;s on Sunday and another pair during the week, and that it takes many Sundays to get the squeak out of a pair of new. shoes. -Dr. W. B. Waller of Caldwell. O., whohas justretnrned home aftcrspending four months on the Navigator Island, says that the SamoanB are remarkably fine dancéis and the most graceful people in the world; and that thi is largely due to the f act that they STe "doublé jointed." "Theirlegsatthe knee joint," he says, "theirarms at the elbow, and their shonlders are rerersible in a way that wouW astonish jou. The elbow and knee joints can be bent exactly contrary to other people's."