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Show . This is 1874. ' -Xhe 'ccs, last evening, surprised its reaJrs by announcing that yes-terdayas yes-terdayas the last of 1873; hence today to-day nJst necessarily be tbe first of 1S74 One year from to-day will be 187f the next year will bo the Cen-tenialt Cen-tenialt after which Grant will commence com-mence on his thU-d term; Anna Dick-en Dick-en Jn will still be waiting, and riling mules and spurring both flanks ac-e at the same time; Congressmen iill be grabbers, ana if George Wash-ngton Wash-ngton the original George of the little hatchet had lived till the 22nd of next morJh, he would have 'outlived 'out-lived the majority of hi3 nurses; Queen Victoria, the Prinoe of Wales, or some one else will reign over Great Britain; the Spanish republic will be a monarchy; John Smith will still re-aide re-aide in- New York; brave niei will lose telr ve3 m hunting for the North Pole; Cuba will be e pluribtus iinum; Utah will b,aya riug, and then it will be 1877, |