Show SUNDRY ITEMS tr the N Y sunday times in speaking of the difference between little and bi big rc rogues holds the following language the gentlemen arrested so some me time ago in this city for over issuing the stock or bonds of some insurance company have been discharged from custody custod if they had been leen accused of petty larceny no species of moral or legal salt would have been able to save them from prison putrescence putre sence B A t there is is a sublimity about your our napoleon in rascality that commands as genius always does docs universal respect there is an overpowering something about your tamerlane in financial turpitude your genghis ehan khan in wall street that awes the million converts the cornmon common prose of theft into th the poetry of pecuniary abstraction b str action and makes even the thee judicial ermine do homage to the author of the latest epic in in financial in iniquity uit it is S not a little learning but a little 72 dig diB honesty esty that is a dangerous thing you must drink deep or else eise taste not at all of the spring of swindling and poetry stand in this respect very nearly in the same category old as it may seem f ajr r mediocrity in in either is hated hated bated by gods and men add is is punishable with noa non forgive foreia eness both bota at the chambers in in the city hal hall and the salons of the fifth avenue LAW SPEECH the knickerbocker magazine zine furnishes the following specimen of legal ratiocination the counsel on the other side sir milsap pretends ends the law principles involved in in this important case law sir is very simple if we understand its elementary principles the principle cinci ae of this case sir is to be found in in the torn horn dooks books of the profession I 1 hold in in my hand sir a v vollme or of blackstone sir the great eat author of the english law yes sir sir I 1 bog hog hold bold in in my r hand sir that glorious magnus chartus the foundation and am bulwark of english liberty which was wrung by the illustrious king john sword in hand band from the bloody barons on the banks of the pleasant Bonny mede ede on that mo mentus occasion but sir I 1 did not intend to make a speech sir and as I 1 have not examined the question sir i 1 submit it to the court with these few and remarks tp tire TIIE E CAVE E E Al meriam erlain says the last estimate of the Af mammoth ammoth cave zave gave ave aye avenues 47 domes 8 cataracts and 23 pits yet all is is not discovered the ile floor of the cave is covered by three or four feet of dirt yielding about three pounds of nitrate of lime lice to the bushel and such is the condition of the atmosphere bre of the cave that the dirt after being and thrown back from froin the theoli hoppers in in the cave re impregnates geates as fully in three years as it was before lixi vahon ion lon thus the supply is inexhaustible glauber and epsom salts are abundant in some apartments of the cave pebbles chalcedony including geodes ceodes lined with crystals flints fibrous sulphate of lime crystallized carbonate of lime oolite chalk red and gray ocre calca cale arous roua spar gypsum and soda are arc found in in the cave cas e FREAKS FREARS or lle lie r th atlantic states have recently been visited wilh wild geine seine of the most terrific thunder storms on record A great number of incidents are recorded of the freaks of the electric fluid among which we notice one ore in in dedham maba masa where a tree standing near mr air alvan fishers I 1 house louse was house truck struck the fluid pissed ps sed fr froin em tile the tree to tile the house and from the houe to the barn at which latter place among other singular 6 fleeks freaks it completely emptied a large trough which was fed f ed with water without upsetting or in any way injuring it the water was undoubtedly thrown out of the trough by the current of air which the electric fluid carried before il it tile TOE ACE AGE OF trees I 1 11 t is a popular belief bellef that the age of trees can be determined by the rings or aralds that overlie each other in in their trunks mr joshua howard of 1 marand maraud disputes the fact ile he says siss that these rings counted on the section of or the tree are not of annual growth grow iii ili but are formed oneat every full moon in the growing season and ia in the latitude of mar mur laud land five in a year ear this lie has frequently proved by felling telling young oung trees the age of which he knew ilia tyla extraordinary age given to trees by the popular rule has made m n ny persons doubt wh wheller ellier it is is true A WONDERFUL lettic II 11 is stated that in cutting through oliver street for the purpose of extending the bowers a tombstone wag wai exhumed and a perfect berfect skull found beneath it tile inscription was in hebrew characters and after being submitted to the inspection of many learned citizens of the persuasion il it was decipher ed to bear tile the name grenada while the date dale runs back some years 5 ears which was before lefore the discovery di of america by columns new york courier population or OF THE world the latest and 11 apparently the fairest estimate of tile the population of the world makes it eleven hundred and fifty million viz pons pans pagans six hundred and twenty I 1 millions one huldred hu rd red and forty millions and jews fourteen millions of 0 christians I 1 the church churchon of romo rome numbers ore bundled and seventy millions the greek and eastern churches sixty millions and protestants ninety millions 0 13 A saucy debtor was cautioned by a creditor to en ur wire wire wine ile he took iio no heed beed and the next we heard of him he lie was turned into a istace jug othe local law of tho the several stater states takes cognizance of Ulga bigamy irly aud and cot the ia lawa lava of the united n cited states |