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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. Two hundred and sixty girls are cm-ployed cm-ployed in the government telegraph offices in Ilussia. .Laborers on an English railway lately late-ly found a thrush's nest under a rail, with the hen peacefully sitting on tour eggs, undisturbed by the thunder of passing trains. The Crown Princess of Prussia has recently become so enraged at the infidelities in-fidelities of her husband, that she has serioiu-ly thought of getting a divorce from him. Pioehe"ort is not ill in prison. He romps daily with his children, and they made such a noise the other day that he warned them: "We shall all be turned out if we create such a row." The free city of Hamburg is the ! only state in Germany where persons accused of crime may still be tlctrged and put in irons by order of the exam iuing judge, if they do not give him answers that please lum. A rich American died about a month ago in Paris, of the effects of the abuse of tobacco. He is said to have frequently consumed as many a.-j a.-j forty cigars a day. By his will he left his children millions, aud strictly prohibits them from smoking. Whi.-kers, in the Grand Duchy of II , are regulated by royal edict. Recently the government organ contained con-tained a notice that his royal highness had nio.-t graciously accorded the privilege privi-lege of wearing a lull beard to a prosecuting prose-cuting attorney in Maiulz, named Faiker. The P.uis Mir iU-ii states that it has reaped, during an existence of live months, a harvc-t ti' eighty six aud a half months of imprsonment and eL'htr-en thousand IVan- une, without counting the piosecutious now pending. No one wa- recently more astonished than an enterprising Emtlishnjan in ! Home, v.ho was about to open a lame hotel in the Eternal City. His inti-n-i tioii was to call it ihe Hotel Byrjn; but the Papal authorities oljected to that name on the jrroun 1 that Jxt-J Byron l.al been an iulidel. At the i same time tiny Were kind en'itigh to inform him that he might call hi- hot'-l the Shakes) eare House, or the Newton House. He finally resolved to cad it ' the Westminster House. |