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Show I LKLl.u Morton, minister to England, is. 42 years old. They win races by poisoning the best horses at couuty fairs, in Ohio. The question has been propounded j by a youngster whether, when gold yets to par, if it wou't go to ma. ! One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost I absolute silence in regard to yourself. ) California coutains 120,847,841 acres i of land of. which it is estimated S0,00n,000 can lie devoted to profitable industry. Poetry is tho flower of thought; irony the thorn; sarcasm the net lie; wit the honey; and punning the small beer. They have a desperado out west who has already killed five men, and is said "to contemplate getting up a graveyard of his own." A Minnesota benedict advertises his wife for er.le, warranted sound and kind, his only reason for disposing of her being that he feels his own educational educa-tional inferiority. A negro was caught in a man ,s garden gar-den at Roanoke, .North Carolina, the other night, in .'lose proximity to a lot of fine cabbages. When interrogated as to what he was doing, he replied, "Good Lord! dis nigger can't go no where to pray without bein' trouble. 1 !" A Piute lndiau, who iu the streets j of irginia City, Nevada, seized the I handle of an electrical machine, I qui kly ocean a war-dance, and cried lout, "ifi-vou, whoa, you stopoe wagon, do 'iiu (.mall !:' He was released, and breaking through the crowd, took himself to a safe distance, and then turned, drew himself up to hip full length, and. with great dignity, remarked, re-marked, "Shoo fly!" The first church organ in JUosion was put into King's Chapel in 171J, but so great was the prejudice against it that for seven months it stood unpacked un-packed in the ve-tibule of the church. ! When it was put up, and its sounds were heard, it met with favor. It was related that one old lady e.Tpres.-cJ her opinion of it bvsavinc: "It s a nrertv box of whistles, but an awful plaything play-thing for the Sabbath." The King of Saxony in his wveu-tiethyear wveu-tiethyear has begun to study the Russian Rus-sian and Polieh languages, with the purpose of translating home of the best poetry of tho.-? tongues into t.iTiuau. King John is the author of the best translation of Dante ever made into any laneuage. with the possible exception excep-tion of Longfellow's. It is epcciallv ! valuable for its learned and exhaustive I notes in German, of course. His I majesty uses the ;.., Or plum of 1'hilaleihes. |