Show THE fico department has made a profit of aiom postal caida 10 the eight ance they wore introduced steamship alaska arrived in new york on sunday bom liverpool she made her trip in six da 3 and twenty hours IT has been estimated that the direct cost of the indian wars foi tho past ten eais for expenditures of the army w est of th mississippi watching and fighting the indians will amount to at least workmen engaged on apsa hansli cathedral Cathe dial were arrested on ho of the dis ly saturday in consequence under the edifice in covery of a mine aich the ceremonies of the coronation coio nation of the czar tiko place JAY GOULD wife and daughter left new york city last week for a trip through the southwest and california it is expected thit ho will take in loredo and the city of mexico if he once sets foot on mexican goindo not bo sur poised to hear of railroads being gob bled up by him JUST because new york city is the metropolis of america she must of course put on metropolitan air last year her schools cost her amusement bill amounted to and as the extent of her liquor hill extras agana people those new aro anc of puck has been handed the petition for the baidon of mason for his signature but declines because he considers mason a dispence to american marksmanship if dr carver or bad taken a bead on guiteau the country would have been saed con fidei able money and the public would have had less slush m the shape of a trial TUB coast papers are ridiculing senator jones of nevada who extended so much courts to arthur after he became president Pies ident jones used to sit up nights with the new president while he was a gueft of the senator in washington counseling and him in various matters but arthur seems to have forgotten althee acts of kindness by the nevada senator jones vall let him go to bed next time IN new boik on the first of may a new law will then be in force biking it a felony cpr a person to attempt to tale his own afe punishable in state bucs meas their life to practice pistol tai get shooting as well as to cause them to study chemistry we do not enow but it will have a tendency ten dancy to encourage both sciences anis mother james says that her boy is better off in heaven than here if such men as jacsie james are in heaven there ire plenty of people now living who would prefer a lodging place down below jesse will make it hot lor e above but we dont behe e his mother is positive of his now any more than she was when he was alive and making things lively for those who possessed wealth REPORTS of a fearful famine come from aisa minor owina to three successive visitations of the locusts the crops have been swept dway and tie people are dying ot starvation the which this dreadful die adful calamity extends is three times larger than massachusetts and embraces ancient cappadocia and pirt of phrynia im mediana belp is wanted and as the dis strict is remote it will be impossible to even approximate the fatal results following such a finine CHEAP letter postage is likely to bo a new feature in postal affairs it is proposed to i educe letter postage down to two cents instead of three as at present A bill has been in the house to make certain changes in the money order 8 stem it is proposed to reduce the money order fees on sums not avei 10 from ten cents to eight also to issue postal notes payable to bearer within months for adv sum under 5 for thieo cents these changes would giove piove satisfactory to body many more letters would be sent as well also as small sums of money which are mostly sent hi mail if the postal note system becomes a law P lately received ece ived a monster elephant from the zo olof fical gardens at london which weighs in pi line condition seven tons this addi s show including the and amounted to ho consumes about ronnda of food per day and is particularly fond of tobacco whisky and onions jumbo for this 13 hia name has cultivated his tastes so finely that bo discards ill intoxicating drinks and prefers whiskey straight sixteen hoi sen required to convey this monster in his cage aiom the wharf to madison squire |