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Show FOHKlG.V Nb:'S ITKHIS. 'J'he price of a golden colored chignon, chig-non, or a braid of hair, in Paris is 2.10 francs. A steam fleet is now being built in England which measures nearly half a million tons and will cost fifty million dollars. The Paris picture dealer, Pere Michel, Mi-chel, for forty-five years in the trade, lately died, leaving behind lilm some 4,000 painlings. On the shores of Loch Fell, in Scotland, Scot-land, the form of a sorpent 300 feot in length has recently been disinterred. It is considered to be a relio of the supposed sup-posed serpont worship in Scotland. Water, such as is fit to drink, commands com-mands a price in Madrid as high as soda water in Ameriea aud as a Rummer beverage is more sought after than wine, and people like it better for having to pay for it than if ii cost nothing. The London AJcertiser says Gladstone Glad-stone ifc a "gusher," and is about as tit to contend with statesmen of the Bismarck type as the limpest production produc-tion in nature say a jelly fish to resist re-sist the prow of an advancing steamer cased in steel. News from Matamoras, Mexico, represents rep-resents the government forces as cer tain to succeed. J his comes from the Juarists. From the revolutionists the news is that all of the intelligent and decent people in the country, are opposed op-posed to Juarez. Among the prizes for ls.72 offered by Cambridge university, England, is one of a gold medal lor a Latin ode, not to exceed thirty stanzas, on the subject: "Tho Americans united with the British people in a bond of peace and friendship. Pr. Joly ?aysthat ilm French consume con-sume more tobacco than any other nation, na-tion, and he attributes the enervation ofthe soldiers, as evinced during the late war, io the combined effect of alcohol al-cohol and nicotine upon the national character. Louise Michel, achool-mis,tress, has been sentenced by a V ersailles court-martial court-martial to imprisonment for life in a fortress, as an accomplice in the acts of the Commune, having personally fought in uniform, and written articles in the Cri Ju Pfiq,le inciting to the assassination of Gens. Leeompte and Thomas. The royal plate at Windsor is kept in a tolerably -sized room and adjoining closet, and is valued at .tM,7o0,i0. Thera is one gold serv ice formed by George U ., to dine one hundred and thirty guesls. Some pieces were taken I from the Spani-h Armada, some brought from India, Burmah and China. There are thirty dozen of" i plates whieh cot l went v-six guineas I each plain. |