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Show ISKIASGS. Pore Ilyaciuihe has been made a sergeant. ser-geant. Illinois is about to hold an anti-Masonic anti-Masonic mass convention. It is expected that the St. Louis bridge across the- jlississippi will be completed in 1S72. If the Parisians want murderous engines en-gines they can get them of almost any of the American railroad companies. Courier-Journal. LTorror has seized upon the gourmands gour-mands of London at the discovery that their favorite dish of turtle soup is often made of conger-eels. The New York Exprts has discovered discov-ered that the people who rush out of public places of amusement at improper improp-er times, and to the annoyauce of iuiet audiences are members of the Big Horn expedition. Boston gives its poor on Monday and Thursday, mutton scrap with rice; on Tuesday and Friday, fish chowder; on Wednesday, meat soup with vegetables; vege-tables; on Saturday, beef soup with bread, and on Sunday, beef soup with dumplings. A singular wedding took place in Morgan county, Mo., not long since. A '"grass" widow was married to a young man on condition that if her truant husband should at any subsequent subse-quent period express a willingness to live with her he .should be allowed to do so. and her union with the young man should be null and void from that date. omen must be scarce in Morgan Mor-gan county if they have to marry their grass widows oif in that manner. Apropos of a stranger visiting the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, Don Piatt wxi:es : "About him scrape and bow the dusky sons of Africa, waving little brooms. Behind au elaborately-carved elaborately-carved table stand gorgeous clerks, slaves of the quill rnd diamond, who look down with contempt upon the miserable wayiarer in a duster, who feels that he encumbers the earth and is a wretch. The wayfarer humbly records his insignificant name and mutters something about a room that nobody listens to. As soon as his name is recorded in the book of fate, a violent son of Africa seizes his satchel and umbrella; another son of Africa strips Lini of the duster and taps him violently on tender parts with a whi.-k broom; a third takes his number and motions him to ascend the magnificent stairway of the palace. To each of the-e three sods oi'Aftica the bewildered bewild-ered and frightened wayfarer pays divers sums of money, and ascends." |