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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The czarina of Russia has 257 costumes in wardrobe. Moles are expert swimmers. Thelr hroad pwva opérate as paddlea. A ricb, discovery of gold has been mad r: ar Grahamstown, Capg Cojony. Thr new oarbor at Galveston, Tes., ia now completed, and is au eatire buccesa Aa ïw as 17 cents a barrel has been off erefl tor Net. Uaidwi aj?les Exeter, N. H. A Belfast (M.) ma has played L6,400 games of crlbbage wltb. hls wife, and now they are only six gamea apart. A weïl-known restaurant manager In liondoa eaya the stipply of barmaida is enormously in excess of the demand. Miss Younger, of Perry, O. T., eays that if Bryaa is elected she. will marry T. J. Stanton. If McKinley is eleoted she ■will not. Oíd Gotrox (savagely)- So you want to marry my daughter, do you? Do you thinK two can live aa cheaply as one? Young Softly (slightly ebarrassed)- I- I hardly think you wlll notice any difference, sir.Puck. "Here, iwaiter!" roared the longwhiskered cuatomer, puehlng the plate from him. "Take thia punkia pie away and bring me a glass o' mllk. Darn a silver man. that ain't true to his colors!" - Chicago Tribnne. As the result o: aa eLeetlon wager a mn in Ripley cou ly, Ohio, is goiag to snave hia head, gild it, and walk a mile without his hat if McKlnley( ts elected. Hls opponent wiil silver hls head if Brya-71 carries off the prize. Among the more sober phy6icists of old it was believed that in some manner the sun was conveyed by night across the northern regions, and that darkness was duo to lofty mountains, which srreened off the sunbeams during the voyage. The i'arsees of India have a strange funeral custom. They exposé their dead to the fowle of the air, on the Towers of Silnce, at Bombay. It ia their opinión that nelther the earth nor the water Bhould be desecrated iby contact with. a corpse.

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Ann Arbor Register