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Show IMvLIIVGS. InBci'QiaDy, L0 is a high price for a popular lecture. Juvenile New York drives four-in-hands teams of goats. . A few days since, a child was born in Fleming county, Ivy., that had four teeth. ' .! . . A farmer of Scipid, New York:, lias a turkey that has laid 100 eggs in 100 days. The Second Regiment of Prussian landwehr, guard regiment, is composed almost entirely of married men. They have left over 8,000 children at home. The Labor Reformers and 'Woinan Suffrage advocates, in Massachusetts, threaten an alliance, offensive and defensive, de-fensive, for political purposes. . - , The London Telegraph is the most widely circulated paper in England. From July 1st, to September 2d last, the daily issue averaged 190, Suo co? pies. .,: . The Newcastle (Ind.) Times claims the championship on- quick divorces. It says a woman recently got one in 6ve hours from the time sho made the application. ; Something for the novelists and playwrights. play-wrights. Your hero kills your heroine by a poisoned postage-stamp, which he sends her in a note requesting an answer, an-swer, and gets the evidence of his guilt into his hands again by return mail. A dead child was left at the Oxford, Conn., post-office, a few nights since, in a parcel directed to one of the doctors, doc-tors, and a note left with it saying that it was for the purpose of dissection. It is believed to have been still born. The child was evidently of colored parentage. parent-age. . : There is a cow in Wiusted, Coiid., one year and ten months old, half Al-derney Al-derney and half Durham, that gave from January 1st to January 7th, inclusive liiS pounds of milk, averaging one pound ol'butter a day, and it took only two minutes time to churn tho butter from the milk. The proposed flag of the German Empire is black, white, red, and gold. Black and white, being the Prussian colors, take the lead in the new flap, as symbolical nf Prussian leadership in tho German Union. Black, white, and red are the colors of tho North German Ger-man Bund. Whito, black, red, and gold aro the colors of tho old German Bund. Some of the sons of tho wealthiest citizens iu Paris have been convicted by court-martial and sentenced toduatli because they deserted when in the presence of the enemy. Not a single one of them has been able to obtain pardon; but the family of a General, who was killed during the present war, received the favor ihat his son should be shot in the prison court and not in public. Mr. Spurgeou says: ' It i a remarkable remark-able fact that ministers of the G,-el are not able to live on much less thau other people. They cannot make a shilling go so far as other people make a sijvciL'tgn. Siune of them try very hard, but tiny do not sucxed. A member once said to a uiini-ter who wanted a little more salary as hi-family increased: 1 did not know th-tt you pn ached fur money.' '.No, 1 don't,' said the mini-ler. 'I tlioHirlit yon pleached fir souls.' 'o I do; but 1 could not live ou souls and if 1 rould it would lake a good iii'iny tho siz" of yours in make a meal.' ' |