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Show INKLINGS. It hiu been aonclusively settled that the Nana Pahib claimant is a fraud. c The New York un heads its con-jresoional con-jresoional column, " Boss Grant's Conresi." Ten thousand California salmon were deposited in the Mississippi river at les Moines on the 14th. Up to latest advices there has been 20,501 persons arrested in Pari for participation in the insurrection of the commune. Artificial leither w.is exhibited in Vienna last year which was perfectly waterproof, and GO per cent, cheaper than the real article. The pope intends placing twclvo statues round the cupola of St. Peter's, in accordance with the design de-sign of Michael Angolo. There were arraicned in New York city during the past year for crime 4,321 persons, or nearly one in twelve ot the entire population. English people are feasting John W. Forney because he said that the Eugluh girls are the best warbleis in ' the world. When be returns to this country he will swear that ho wrote "waublera." Alphonso Barrett, or Otterville, IlhnoiB, died last July, leaving a widow, his second wife, aged 23, and s aen about 25. The latter celebrated New Year's day by marrying his step-mother. ' The Earl of Roeoberry is on bis way across the ocean to marry the eldest daughter of William Butler Duncan, of the house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., of New York. She " is described as the "prettieat and beat aid in tho mntrnnnlin." The poor ye have always with ye; and Garibaldi has an income of $ti,000 a year, Hana Christian Anderson is well provided for, and the unprotected heathen of the Cannibal islands use their moral pocket handkerchiefs mostly for scoop nets. The wife of Wm. M. Tweed recently recent-ly met with an accident which deprived de-prived her of one of her eyes. Hsr youngest son exploded a percussion cap close to her lace. A piece of tbe metal struck her eye, which had to be cut out to save the other. When a Dubuque widow with seventeen sev-enteen children is turned out of doors for failing to pay rent, her fellow-beingB fellow-beingB do not pass around tbe hat and raise $1,000 for her, but they catch the landlord and duck him. They find that to be tbe cheapest way, A couple of members of the darkey conference were passing down the avenue, when one of them trod on the indigestible portion of a ptar, and as his number elevens went up the rest of his body was correspondingly lowered. " Ki-yah, bmdder Jones, ; tr,M. QlUn frnM n-a ?" V.imlrlMl o jua i"6u uwiu &iuu . his companion, "Not prezactly, deacon, I'bb sittin' on de ragged edge of dia pear," Capital. A throrgofyouth and beauty glide Amid tbe festive scene; The dancers close, and eido by side, Upon each other lean. But one fair maid, tho queen of all, Hath on her brow a frown She feels her pride will have a fall: Her hack hair's tumbling down. Wash. Chron. |