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Show mrmmm L.j J. .JJ?-!? ! IMvLJUMi. Tlie thirty-oiio voters of Tonawantla. HI., have decided to make that place a city. Mrs. Partington says she gets up every morning at the shrill crow of the chandelier. Twelve vindictive females of Albany, N.Y., have organized themselves into a brass band. . A lightly constructed metrailleurs is being attached to every company of infantry in-fantry in the British service. The cattle plague is at an end in England and Ireland, and restrictions as to their transport have been removed. re-moved. A revenue collector iu Missouri recently re-cently tried to col'ect fifty cents a head in a ball room the tax on hops. A man in Oxford, Iud., was bitten by a rattlesnake seventeen years ago, and is still taking whisky to prevent ill effects. Squirrels are swimming the Ohio river in droves, and are being killed in great profusion in gardens and yards near the stream. English sparrows are worth a dollar per head iu Louisville, and unprincipled unprinci-pled parties are trying to palm off blue jays for the real article. During the bombardment of Stras-burg Stras-burg a bombshell fell in a young ladies' seuiiuary, killing seven of the pupils and wounding four others. Isaac Jannan, the coxswain of the Ramsgute life-boat in England, has been instrumental in saving four hundred hun-dred lives during the last ten years. Three brothers Bcrnadotte, nephews of the King of Sweden and relatives ol the Bonaparte family, are serving as volunteers under the French flag. Carpenters and masons get fifty-four cents a day in the cities of "Sweden, but fifty cents will buy more in Sweden than five times that sum would in this country. A correspondent of Xutux and Queries Que-ries draws attention to the fact that the battlefield of the present campaign attained early celebrity as the head-ouarters head-ouarters of tvnoirianhv. Met was one of the first town.--which practiced the art of printing, and the ancient works which cauie from its press arc very numerous. nu-merous. Strasburg is asserted to have been for some years the home of John Guttenburg, although no dated book is extant of an earlier year than 1471. 'foul is to be noted as the place at which one of the first attemtits athter-eotypin?. athter-eotypin?. was male. The Sedan editions edi-tions compete with the Elzeviru in the estimation of book collectors, and are beautiful examples of minute typography. typogra-phy. Kclil was tlie ultimate re.-ting place of Baskcrville's type, with which .M. lieauniarcbais printed an edition! "' Voltaire's works on blue paper for King I're.leri. k of ' Prussia'who labor ed under weakne-s of the eyt s." At Klieiins and Verdun printimx was carried car-ried on at an early date, and the latter place has a special interc-t a. having been the place where the English prisoners pris-oners who w.'iv detained by -Napelcen I. v printed. ui:h In- .eriiiUifni, an edition of the I juli-li Hook of Com-nitin Com-nitin Prayer |