Crisp Condensations

Amanda Taylor, a miss only 11 years oíd, is teaching school in Owen oounty, Ky. There are now elghteen Avons In the United States, tbe last town tobe so oamed being in Massachusetts. A vegetarían hotel is an innovation In Londoa l'here are already thirty vegetarían restaurants in that city It Is claimed that the deaths and wounds froin railroad accidents are only about oue-fourtb as great in Ëurope as in this country The anima) supposed to be the progenitor of our dog lives in India, and is known as the buansuah. It is very shy, but a dozen or more uunt together. At an auction In London recently, an egg ot tlm extinct bird, the great auk, of which ouiy sixty-one are known to be in existence, was sold Lor $800. The larpest known üower is the Rafflesia, a native of tiumata-a. It measures three feet in diameter, weighs fliteen pounds, and has a caJyx üolding sis quarts. The odor is offensive. The progressivo 6pirit lately manifested ín üentucky nasshown that everythmg nepdful exists in the state, in diggüig for silver down in Casey county a soap mine has been Jiscovered New Orleans is about buüdtng towers for its wires- telegraph, telephone, electric light and all- and claims to have solved one of the inosi troublesome problems of modern civilizaron A Loxiisville young woman is said to have been made íiisane by dyeing ber hair. She was foutid in her room seated among brokeu mirrora, crockery aiid pictures, a raving marnac. It has been stated that railway trains In England are now driven at an average Bpeed 14 per cent, higher than it was twenty years ago. mtb scarcely more than half the quantity of coai A stick of timber 151 feet long and twenty niches square, believed to be the largest piect ever turned out from any saw mili, has bseo sent frora Puget sound to an exhibitioo in San Francisco. A St Louis hotel clerk claims to have made the discovery that tall men sleep later in the morning ohan short men, and that persons of a dork complexión invariably require mors rest than blonde?.