The only shipment of mutton to the Continent during the week
was 18,000 quarters of beef to France."--_Sheffield Daily
Telegraph_.

Even the oxen in neutral countries are feeling a little sheepish.

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"A large section of the city will find its water supply rather
intermittent in consequence of a burst of the Rivington water
main at Twig-lane, Huyton, near Prescot. The main has an
internal diameter of forty-four miles."--_Liverpool Paper_.

What an awful bore!

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"SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUSTS TO APPEAR NEXT SUMMER.

State Collee, Pa, Dec. 11.--The 17-yearg lgocgugsgt is due to
appear agagingg gnext summer, according to C.H. Hadley, Jr.,
an entomo-legeggggbmn TTMMggggob rr . . j Eas logist at the
Pennsylvania State College."--_Erie Daily Times_.

The news has had a decidedly discomposing effect already.

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"A gamble with death in the Strand--seeing that the stake
is precisely the same--should be quite as enthralling as a