ALL SORTS. Tbo trinl of Babcoct cost over i $19,000. Fifty-nine state conventions are to be held within two months. Liverpool is the most densely populated popu-lated town in Great Britain. The house military committee pro poses to oo away Willi llie colored regiments reg-iments iu the army. Sixteen centenarians died in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts last year, eleven of whom were born in Ireland, Virginia, too, will send a club of pedestrians to the Centennial. Will her Governor, Walker, participate? Mr. John E. Owens is very properly and correctly styled a "sterling comedian." come-dian." He is worth $500 000, and still adding to his pile. Lotta thinks she will aoou retire from the stage. She has been acting and traveling since she was nine years of age, and is "so tired." The eastern railroads generally are making their excursion tickets to the Centennial good for sixty days instead of thirty as originaly announced. Some English sparrows at Richmond, Rich-mond, Va., have built their nests in the nostrils of the horse on which is placed Crawford's statue of Washington. Washing-ton. A woman of Omaha, 100 years of age, has had her grave clothes on hand for filteen years, and has had them washed and ironed once each year. "I'm too poor to take a paper." If you are, you should be indicted by the grand jury for obtaining a family under false pretenses. Columbus Enquirer En-quirer . The Massachusetts Senate has refused re-fused to abolish the labor bureau ot that state, which is engaged in collecting col-lecting statistics as to rated of wages, cost ot living, etc. Cirdin.il Cullen, in his Lenten p.is-toral. p.is-toral. recommends lipids nf f-viviilii- not lo allow their children to read newspapers, hut lo read the lives of the saints instead. I The glass dome of the Centennial i art gallery will be lighted by 2,000 gas geti. The dome is -00 feet above the level of the Schuylkill, and will be visible at night all" over Philadelphia. The New York Sm says there is no evidence that Mr. Beecher believes in a hell or in a future retribution of any sort, lie talks directly the other way, and is really a man without fixed ani definite religious conviction. The Philadelphia Ledger was enlarged en-larged on its foily-fourlh anniversary, and placed in a new dress. It is said to be next to the Xew York IlfralH the most profitable journal in the country, as it is one of the best. The Dickens children (nephews of Charles) at Am boy, 111., are not iu n destituts condition, but have a pood house and are well cared for. The eldestj boy is at Evanston seminary, Illinois, preparing for the ministry. Canada pnpers announced that a man crossed the border from the States tho other day with JOS, 000 in his pockets, and a New York detective detec-tive in lull pursuit. At last accounts the money had changed h.inda, and the detective was two hours ahead.