Show EVENTS AND COMMENTS labors under the impression THE TIPSY man pression that thu world moves 10000 a yea 1 A CHICAGO man pays f for one pew in church Phew t much of a philosopher WOMAN is not but she is proverbially a clothes observer obser-ver P i C > > of looking N is very fond JouN L SULLI yAN iug over the comic papers Punch Ld his favorite f THE BOY Emperor ol China is to be doubt Married iu February Without cold dayfor him 11 it will be a Sen V JOHN SHERMAN has been elected ntor for ffioer term Oh that the sainted Eliza Pinkston had lived tc see tltisday r < < 1 gaof frt11e Nebraska Legislature r Legisla-ture s namedY arwide offs ought to comefromYermontjndithen he bare o f would bavebeen all wool t i5 A JptQpt3ILLBB is said to have great antlpathyrto dogs Joaquin aced r to bea 1 Voor poet who invaded editors sanctums when they were busy JuJJ T > ak not suffer from CoiJOBKsaisnot likely to i any Iackofwork to do Only some four thousand bills have been presented pres-ented so far but the session is young f yet SOUKTHING O NEW under the sun no member of Congress bears the name of it Smith In every one of the preceding fort efgbt Congresses the Smith family has been represented tI A CHICAGO lawyer jumped up in court the other day and exclaimed 1 I I desire to pay this court 5 for the privilege of telling it that it is either drunk corrupt The judge quietly pocketed the 5 and ordered t the case to proceed in TnE SEASON of American opera New York is said to have opened most I ii auspiciously Now let some American musical author produce a first rate native opera and we will be properly r eOllippAd to Bet UP opposition to the foreign schools of music THE DEMOCRATS in both branches of Congress appear to be in great haste to I put themselves on record against the President on the silver question All of the prominent Democrats are confident that nothing will be done in regardto i silver coinage by the present Congress Boston Journal A COMPASY has been formed in Russia e for building a railroad the rails of which are to be made of paper In connection con-nection with this the New York World 4 facetiously remarks that this country can give Russia some points in the matter mat-ter of building railroads on paper and I running them on water Ten thousand colored people of New Orleans ushered in the New Year by celebrating the issue of President I Lincolns emancipation proclamation and among the speakers were five men who had served in the rebel army I I When the latter and the rest of the white Democracy permit the coloreds colored-s Republicans to vote as well as celebrate ° cele-brate we shall bid goodbye to the sectional sec-tional issue IT is argued against the bill proposed r by Senator Manderson to provide for equipping a body of frontiersmen to exterminate ex-terminate the Apaches that the passage of such a bill might be a reflection upon t i General Crook who hasin the main a been a good soldier and Indian fihter Of course such old soldiers as Crook are thinskinned and it wont do to f cast the shadow of a reflection upon I 1 Hither their courage or their ability to 1r r cope with 100 or 150 Apaches It is probably better to allow a few settlers on the fronties to be butchered THE TEMPERANCE question has broken I V t out and is raging with tropical vehemence I y vehem-ence in far away Alaska Among the unsophisticated Aleutsit appears the 1 art of brewing a primitive tipple called hoochenoo prevails A drink of the c stuff suggests to the victim that a large conflagration has broken out and is I it raging along the whole lengthof his I hF + i throat and intestines It is not known f rl that Governor Swineford has had personal t1 V t ri per-sonal experience with a flood of this 0 i Alaska lava but in some way he has imbibed a prejudice against the stuff i r 1 ib j i for in his paper the Alaskan he iscry tr Uil aloud that Hoochenoo r + jug must go kt U I Iledoes not say whither he would send i rIr1 it but there is probably nothing this i i f side of the incombustible walls of eheol i c o in which it could be stored with safety I t |