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Show There are about 310 postmistives in the United States.' Wolves are inereasins; in numbers in various parts ot' the Eastern States. On the 1st of December, 1S7U, there were 3:20,000 French prisoners of war in Germany. -. - A man in Baraboo, Wis., i-7 years of age, has applied for a divorce from his wife on the ground of desertion. There are already 2,500,000 mulberry mul-berry trees in California for the use of the silkworms, and more are constantly being planted. A young couple in Bristol, Ara., were so affected at a recent revival meeting that they "went forward" to the altar and insisted upon being married. mar-ried. . A Boston paper comments with severity se-verity upon the fact that a member of the Massachusetts Legislature was recently re-cently seen smoking a cigar in the street on Sunday.' Laborers on an English railway lately found a thrush's nest under a rail, with the hen peacefully sitting on four eggs, undisturbed by the thunder of passing trains. .. New Haven and Hartford aie again agiiated over the question of a single capital for Connecticut. Hartford icants one, and to be that one; New Haven wants two, and to remain one of the two. . A thief recently went through the house of Ctov. Warmouth, of Louisiana, Louisi-ana, and among other booty captured a portion of the Governor's message to theLegislature.in consequence of which it was not delivered upon the assem bling of that body. It was an English satirist, but might havo been a native of Boston, who stated that "Faneuil Hall is supposed to have been the original Solomon's temple, and Boston Common is known to be the Garden of Eden with modern improvements." An admirer of Gov. l'erham, of Maine, who has been in prison seventeen seven-teen years ibr murder, lias presented the Governor with a ring ingeniously cut from bone; on the signet is a silver rooster inlaid, around which are the figures "10,000," Mr. I'erham's majority ma-jority at the last election. Dr. Lankesler, a Loudon magistrate, has given notice that in easo any person per-son shall conic by his death through slipping on pavi'iucnt front which the snow had not been removed, lie will direct the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter again.-t the jier.-on through wbo.-J neglect the accident may have happened. An Indiana p;;pcr says: "The gay old chap who heads the marriage li.-t in to-day's paper, we are informed, hails from Knox county. ( tir informant inform-ant says lie lias tive wives livini', and a suit fur breach ft' pmiiii.-e is now pending in the Knox Cin-uit Court against him, in which '."" damage is claimed by the discarded lover." In Car.-un county, Nee, the i the r day, -UlJ Chinamen cua 'ed in u nticcl lii:ht on the strength of thu lu-s id' tilty cents su.-taiaed by one of their number in a gambling Milium. The uuie they made alarmed ilie entire while population, who ru-hed to the .-eeue of conflict, ctpnting to lind a largo nuiub'-r of the Ccleii'. dead on tho field; but there aa lint a wouiii among tlieia. et the Uoin' they ha 1 made was a-tujii.-hing. |