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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 72, 26 November 1887, Page 3

It is stated that there are 3000 lady eyclists in England. Judge Andrews, of Austria, Maine, has placed Jam iica ginger in the same category with intoxica ing liquors, and a mediciie bitten has been seized from its dealer, as several men went on the spree with it. It is said to be half ale hot A jubilee of corn crop is celebrated by a great corn carnival in some Western cities. At Sioux City a palace will be reared of corn, the princ pal streets will be arched and decorated with corn, and an exhibition will give the first place to corn. Some time ago in Syracuse, Kan., when the nomination of candidates for Council was under ooasideration it was suggested, as a joke, that a ticket composed entirely of women be prep-red. The joke w-nt a step fuvth-r. The ticket w prepared, and now at the election just held it has come out successful. The veterans of the Twen ieth New York Volunteers have arranged to erect a monument on the Gettysburg battle field where the " regiment did valiant fighting. The mm iment will be,of Quincy granite, standing about t reive and a iialf feet h gli. The four sides will contain a record of too many battles in which the regiment participated. The cost wilt be £lOO. A teacher having asked his class to write an essay on “The Result of Laziness,” a certain bright youth handed in as his composition a blank sheet of paper.