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Show ( . lXKUNGS, There i a s'L'niticant remark of the ' present French Emperor's, repeated '. Lv Jerome Bonaparte: "The fall of Palinerston was the heaviest blow I have ever received. He was the only sincere friend I had. So long as he was minister, England had no allies." ' Ks-Governor Leland Stanford, of California, has purchased the Warm Snrings of Alameda county, near the ' Mission, San Jose. He will build him- ', self a palatial residence near the I . Di.rings, and will hereafter reserve them far the use of himself and 1 guests. Terence, in one of his comedies, satirized sat-irized tight lacing and the Grecian bend, aiid both customs have survived 1 Terence nearly two thousand years, which shows the folly of wasting para-1 para-1 . graphs and essays upon the so-culled . improprieties .and injuriousness of ' ' women's fashions. Smith, looking over the garden i fence of his friend J ones, late on Sat-. Sat-. xirdav afternoon, saw Jones in the act ; of digging angle worms. "Jones," taid he, "I hope you are not going to j break the Sabbath." "No," replied ! Jones, as he drew out a fat fellow, "I expect to make a whole day of it." The prorietor of one of the Bridge- port, Conn., hotels was hastening about the other morning at ten o'clock. with twenty things to do, when some . one asked hin why he didn't call up his clerk. "I shan't eall him as long as I can help it," replied he, "for when he is in bed I know where he is, but after he's up I don't know where to find him." A citizsn of Buffalo was passing ; through one of the back streets of that city Sunday afternoon, when he ; ; . both observed and heard a little boy rrying lustily. Approaching the ur-'j ur-'j he kindly asked: "Why, little y, what Jo you want?" Looking : vj into the interrogator's face, the 1 recious juvenile responded, in whining icceuts, "I've got the beller-ache, :hat's what I want !" The London Daily Xeus, in t-peak- . ing of the numerous summons notices ' to Germans in England liable to mil- - itary duty at home, says that the documents doc-uments resemble a Bank of England note, and that the penalty for cot responding re-sponding is the loss of property and : citizenship, and three years penal servitude if afterward caught within the limits of the country. H. Funshaw, residing at Oak Grove, "Wis. , is possessed of more than ordinary ordi-nary vitality for a man of his years, lie is 73 years of age, works every day at his trade, and carries the mail, on foot, six times a week, between Juneau and Oak Grove, the distance being three miles. His step is as firm and elastic as though he were a man of 40. His father, 104 years old, and mother, 105 years old, are still alve, hale, heaity, atd active. |