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Show 'ISKLIXGS. There are 10,000 attorneys in London. Lon-don. There is but one Unitarian congregation congre-gation ir. all British America. A school teacher in Clarke comity, Iowa, has linen dismissed for kissing the ' big girls." Horse stealing is said to bo the chief business now pursued in some parts of Missouri. There is a machine in operation in Maine which can make 1.1,000 toothpicks tooth-picks in a minute. There were about a dozen of members mem-bers in the House, in Washington, at the Friday evening sitting, and the bu-iness was correspondingly unimportant. unim-portant. The situation in South Carolina is described as follows by a correspondent from the capita! : "The" martial law bill is dead; impe ichmcnt ended; no ku klux on the rampage; no money in the treasury. The capital is indeed dull." While Massachusetts .. is excited about opening libraries on Sunday, Scotland is deeply moved concerning the introduction of in-tr jinental music into church services. The same speeches speech-es are made in opposition to both innovations. in-novations. In Rochester, Minn., religious fiVdr is the latest novelty. An editor bought a sack of flour the other day, and was afterwards shown some cards that were taken out of it not playing cards, but little tablets directing the attention of the wicked and the thoughtless to their spiritual needs. Parson Gregg, of Pennsylvania, opened on some rowdies in an evening meeting thus : "Young men ! If there's another disorderly sound from your disreputable crowd, I'll come down from tnis sacred desk, and iu the name of the Lord put a head on every mother's sou of you." And lie did it, too. There is a beautiful girl living near Montreal, ivho, notwithstanding the fact that she has lost both legs above her knees, has received over a dozen offers of marriage during the pa t year, and refused them all. One of her lovers lov-ers is a member of the Uomiuion parliament. par-liament. This afflicted girl speaks s-veu languages. John V. Butler havine been nominated nomi-nated and continued as Major-General of the Florida State militia, a bill was introduced into the assembly, and passed pass-ed both hour's, changing his name to BiT'jamin P., and allowing him to Hualii'y under that title. An amendment amend-ment appropriated the sum of twenty-live twenty-live cents, to purcha-e a sot of spoons for the k'cnernl. -V. 1 . Stin. A will fi'cd in the San I'ranci-co probate cun t reads : "San Franci.-cT, Jan. All an 1 any prop-rty standing in my nam'', real and personal, person-al, I leave to my wife, ,M:ry Aiah r-Miu, r-Miu, au l liki wi-e my two dau;htcrs Mary and Jennie John An 1. ri-on." ,'Flie two daughrers anxiously it. j 'i i re wii'-:h t !,;,v am ai).rtot' the k-naoy h;ircr in it- |