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Show IMvLIiAGJS. l'hiladolphia has at the present ! time two co-operative shoe companies. At St. Joseph, Mo., tho Knights Templar drill and hold reviews on horseback. Tho colored national convention at St. Louis favors the extension of the suffrage to white women. The latest census "report shows that the Stato of Georgia has just fifty more population than Michigan. In Boston, last year, in 522 out of 3,-192 murriagos, the brides acknowledged acknow-ledged being older than tho grooms. In the postal, railroad nnd telegraph tele-graph service of Switzerland, women arc employed as cashiers, bookkeepers, clerks and operators. A year ago only three papers in Kentucky favored the admission of of negro tostiinony in the courts. Now only three oppose it. Tho Louisville Courier says: "There is one of two things which Sir. Stephens ought to do: ho ought to quit fooling away his time on dead issues, or he ought to run tho Cardiff giant for tho presidency." Thirty miles of tho Denvor (Colorado) (Colo-rado) and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge railroad is laid with iron, and trains aro running. The iron is going down at the rate of from a mile to a milo and a half per day. William ScUaus.thc picture dealer of Now York, has offered Courbet, the Fronoh artist and communist, who destroyed de-stroyed tho Vondome column, 20,000 to come to his country ana exhibit himself and his pictures. The number of persons supported by public charity in England and Wales at tho end of Juno was 924,203; of whom 123, 39S were in London. This did not include paupors in lunatic asylums and vagrants. A man who passes through life without marrying is like a fair mansion left by tho builder unfinished. The half that is completed runs to decay from neglect, or becomes at best but a sorry tenement, wanting tho addition of that which makes the wholo useful. A letter from Bonn tells a story of a German general who, on inspecting hia troops not long ago, addressed them thus: "Now, my childron, we can onco more get seriously to work. Tho pastime pas-time of war is at an end, and drill must go on regularly as bcibrc." The night before tho murder of John Harper's brother and sister, the wife of their brother Wallace dreamed they were killed by two persons whom sho minutely desoribed. Tho description descrip-tion of ono answers exactly to that of Baker, the negro, who has been arrested ar-rested on suspicion of the murder. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin argues that the man who votes "for his party, right or wrong," is a greater enemy of his party than an honest political opponent,and as dangerous an enemy of society as the worst man for whom ho votes. And the Bulletin is very fusible. The inspectors of the Vienna police aro now undergoing a course of instruction in-struction in tho French and English languages. They are thus to qualify themselves to act as interpreters between be-tween the strangers and the authorities authori-ties during the grand international exhibition which will take place there in 1S73. A Yokohama correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette states that the last census of Japan gives the number of inhabitants at 24,7SG,32l 1,872,959 are engaged in literature and the military service, 21,954,821 belong to tho trading and working classes. The j number of priests of Buddha amounts to 244,809, and that of priests of Situ tlG3,140. The receipts of the government gov-ernment arc estimated at $61,118,433. In 1SG0 the citizens of St. Anthony appointed a committee to meet Mr. Seward and others, who were proposing propos-ing to visit tho town. By some chance tho committee did not meet the party until they had reached their hotel, when the spokesman by way of apol-agy, apol-agy, said : "Mr. Seward, wo are very sorry that we did not have tho opportunity of escorting you into town; but we beg to assure you that wc shall take great pleasure in oscorting you out of it." |