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Show IKLIGS. Is it possible fur a gnrret w'uulow to ; suflor room attic panes V The Kansas city (Mo.) Kxposiiion atupitheatre will seut 1U.UO0 people. A writer in the London Times labora to show that the world is 20,000 years old. ( ; A street railway car in (Jerniatiy is j kDOWQ as a "I'fcrd-trfissent-'enbahn-wagen!" j Charlotte, N. C, rt'joicus in possession of a baby two weeks old with two teeth. The bite radical mayor of Marion, Ala., has gone to the penitentiary, and notu-s a visitor. Mexico, Mo., is the happy huiue of a couple who have been married twice and divorced twice. They have "delicious straw berries" and "nice grapes" of the second crop in Danville, iryinia. A WiscoDdin mua'iL-iur, sat down upon a Lejt of powder and began to smoke. They lbund one button. "Shoo Fly" has been adopted as thoir favorito tuno by tho colored revivalists of Dawson, Ucorgia. The cattle disease is prevailing in many counties of North Carolina. Largo numbers of cattle have died. One editor in Georgia a.kn another "whether he can bite tho bottom of n frying-pan without smutting his nose." A Sious city k'uI has $1S,000 in tho bank. Tho rush of immigrants iuto the city in the ahapo of single men and witlowers is said to be unparalleled. unparal-leled. It is announced that Louis Napoleon Napo-leon means to lot his whiskers grow nnd become a permanent resident of Chisclhurst. President Grant has gained twenty-eiht twenty-eiht pounds in weight sinco his inauguration. inau-guration. "Upon what inciit d'tlh this Cxsar feed '!'' A lioslon lady declares she is guilty of downright falsehood it duzen times a day by saying to the people- the meets, "I am glad to sco you," nnd cannot frco herself of the habit. A gentleman in Massachusetts iu prosperous days gavo his town a track of land for a pubiio square. The square at ill bears hia naino, whilo he, penniless penni-less and friendless, is an inmate of the town alinhouso. Tho South Carolina Stale treasury being empty, it is announcod that the Stato treasurer has been l'or some weeks in New York "endeavoring to make a raiso," but so far has not accomplished ac-complished anything. New York used to bo very proud of her "great lire" in Dooember, 1835, which destroyed G74 houses, valued at $12,000,000. But she now regards the thing as a contomptiblo failure, and is heartily ashamed of it. Courier Journal. There is a Ileol of ouo hundred and twenty-one steamers sailing on tho various linos that lcavo New York, and nineteen other steamers aro building or rclitting for those lines. Thirteen different lines aro now running between New York and foreign porta. I Bayard Taylor, who says that be i baa frequently experience earthquake 1 shocks in other countries, avers that "in no instance were they accompanied with such a loud and long continued reverberation" as the shock last week in Delaware and Ihc adjacent counties of Maryland. A lady bud a custom of saying lo a favorite litlle dog, to mako him follow her, "Come along, sir." A would-bc wit stepped up to her one day nnd accosted her with, "Is it me, madam, you oalllcd?" "Oh, no, sir," said the lady, "it wan anothor puppy I spoke lo." A schoolboy, having becen required to write a composition on some part ol the human body, expounded as follows: fol-lows: "The Throata throat is convenient to have, especially to roostcra and ministers. Tho lbrmcr cats corn and crows with it; the latter preaches with liis'n and then tics it up. |