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Show INKLINGS. : Kx-'ice President Hamlin is opening open-ing a new slate quarry in Maine. If a man is honest and truthful, there is little need of saying much ahout it. Jeff. Davis authorizes a denial that he is writing or intends to write a novel. A young man at a recent fire' threw away a p lil of water because it was too hot to do any good. The 'i,rl says : " Having successfully suc-cessfully invaded all branches, women now want to take the stump." Never wait for a thing to turn up. Go and turn it up yourself. It takes less time and is sure to be done. The New York Free Press says : "Between the Bemietta the Herald is a ship with two masts. And both are slender 'sticks.' " Eliza Wethcrsby, of the British Blondes, on her return to New York, will be married to Mr. De Solla, of the English Opera Company. The reported death of John Allen is officially contradicted ; so the position of wickedest man in New York- is not yet vacant. It is the opinion of the doctor that the lawyer gets his living by plunder, while tin lawyer knows the doctor gets his by pillage. Four young ladies received the degree de-gree of A. B. at the recent commencement commence-ment of the Simpson Centenary College, Col-lege, at Indianola, Iowa. The excursions of the bees to collect honey are variously estimated at 1'rom one to three miles each, and they make easily about ten trips a day. The Nashville Union and American asserts that the census will show Middle Mid-dle Tennessee to be the most remarkable remarka-ble section for longevity in the world. T.'rre Haute is boasting of the longevity lon-gevity of its inhabitants, having lot) over seventy years of age. One is set down at Iiri,aud another at ninety-eight ninety-eight years. Nilsson is allowed one thousand dollars dol-lars in gold per night, traveling and hotel expenses of herself and mite of three persons, besides a carriage and pair. Here's consolation in an Alabama paper : ''Our physicians say there is no reason for beiug afraid of yellow fever in Montgomery the Asiatic cholera is just as apt to come." Grcnup county, Kentucky, claims to have the oldest woman in the f'tate Mrs. Elizabeth Gray aired 111 ; also the bigzet woman Mi. -a Elizabeth Bu.-h, weight III pounds, aire thirtv-tive. thirtv-tive. "Tlietc ia ii. .1 a i-ihL'lu C'.iiit- h-tute pn.-otJcr in the custody of the United States anywhere, at thi, time." So says Attorney . liberal 'J'uwu.-cnd. in ripuu;e to an ii,,,iiry as tjwhetbir t here are any Confederate prisoners in this Dry Tortuuas or not. |