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OUT OF THE ORDINARY. The death out in Michigan of a man named Smith and aged 111 years leaves a sad perplexity whether he owed his long life to letting whisky alone or to chewing tobacco eighteen hours a day. It has been discovered that the building in Richmond, Va., wherein Poe edited the Southern Literary Messenger is still in existence and it is proposed to place a suitable commemorative tablet on its walls. Hon. R. E. Bobo of Bobo, Miss., who will accompany President Roosevelt on a bear hunt during the latter's contemplated southern trip, killed forty-eight bear last 2,000. year and has a total to his credit of over Prof. W. J. McGee of the government geological survey declares that the Great Salt lake of Utah may disappear entirely in the near future because contributing streams are used for irrigating the lands around the lake. The Pennsylvania road is to pay New York $1,382,500 for the privilege of constructing a tunnel under Manhattan island. And all of which reminds us of what a change there has been in railroad building during the last decade. A run was started on the First National bank at Gas City, Ind., last week. While the depositors were lined up the bank officials placed in full view $75,000 in gold and silver as an evidence of the bank's strength and the run soon ceased. A queer bit of testimony to the prosperity of the times comes from a Connecticut town, where two express employes gave up their position because they found the avalanche of wedding presents descending on the office more than they could handle. In the temple of Karnak on the site of ancient Thebes the remains of a large colonnade, erected by King Sessostris L, 2000 B. C., has been laid bare by excavators; here were also found no less than thirteen colossal statues of Egyptian SOVempire. ereigns, most of them rulers of the middle Preliminary steps are being taken for the observance of the tricentennial of Hendrik Hudson's appearance at the mouth of the river which bears his name, though the event is not due until seven years from next September. A bowling match with schnapps on the side would be an appropriate feature of the celebration.
