The "Cologne Gazette" states that the towers of the Cologne Cathedral are now the highest in the world, the height they hare attained being 5 feet higher than the tower of St. Nicholas' Church in Hamburg, which has hitherto been the highest edifice. Ultimately they will be 51 feet 10 inches higher. A young lady who is studying French lately wrote to her parents that she was invited to a dejeuner the day before, and was going to a fete champetre he next day. Tha professor of the college was surprised to receive a dispatch from the " old man" a dayor two after saying : "If you don't keep my daughter away from these menageries and side shows, I will come down and see what ails her."—Pittsburgh "Telegraph,"
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2039, 6 September 1880, Page 2
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127Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2039, 6 September 1880, Page 2
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