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Show 1KLTGS. Tbe Czar of Russia ban porni'iUcd the sisters ol' mercy to practise medicine. medi-cine. Tbe Kansas (.-iiy Times -ays a narrow gaue railroad 1'rom ibaL place to Independence Inde-pendence ia in prospect. 1 The last span ol" tbe new bridge over I the Hudson at Albany was completed recently. Tbe Ohio and Mississippi railroad is lo cross tbe Ohio river over tbe bridge at Louisville. On the last night of November a lady was parroted and robbed in Tenth St., New Vork, by four ruffians. There is a report tbat J. A. Froude and Wilkie Collins contemplate visiting ihel'nited Ktates in the capacity of public lecturers. . The value of direct importation of do-good to the l'acitie coast is estimated esti-mated at more than r?li0,000,(W) annually. an-nually. The war of 1312 holds good and its array is larger now than it waa then, 10,23y applications for pensions have been granted and 15,4 .'IS are now ponding. pond-ing. An Iowa inventor claims that the T. P. R. R: has infringed upon his patont for snow fences, aud proposes to test, the question iu the courts. n the Illinois legislature a bill has been introduced providing that a jury in civil cases may lind a verdict by an affirmative vote of three-fourths of tbe jurymen. George C. Washington, one of tbe few surviving descendants ol' Cjencral Oeorge Washington, died Monday afternoon af-ternoon at bis residence at Oeorgelown, J). 0.,ot consumption. A prominent Cuban in New York slates that ten thousand stands of arms were recently landed in Cuba, and rerched the revolutionists in safely. The New Orleans Times recently published a table showing the mondily expenses of tbe cily government of that city, footing up a total of $12",000l or a million and a half, yearly. Robert K. Lcc, youngest son of the late Gen. R. K. Lee, has just been married to Miss Charlotte Ilaxall, daughter of Mr. R, Barton Ilaxall, of Orange county, Vii. .: Thirty-seven persons rode at otic time in a car drawn by one horse, lo attepd a concert in aid ol' the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, in Salem, Mass., )ast week. In Germany the barbers have struck for live cents for hair cutting and two and a half cents fur shaving. They are now receiving three and a half cents and one aud a half cent respectively. respect-ively. It is announced thai, the CbriUatiB of the United States propose lo erect a Protestant cathedral in Rome, in one of tbe finest (juarters of tbe city, and that a large sita has nhvady been f?o-; f?o-; cured. , : ' I The Grand Duke Alexis speaks JCng-i JCng-i lish fluently and correctly. He must I have been greatly surprised to find that (,he president of the United States lia.s never ic(juirci tie same accomplishment, accom-plishment, j Tho supreme court of New York has docided that a mock m arris sre followed bycohabitatiou of the parlies aud iuu-tual iuu-tual public acknowledgment as husband and wife is a valid marriage, according to the laws of New York Slate. . I In a LVcnohpourt, recently, as a wit-1 wit-1 ness was about to giye Jiis testimony, j tbe advocate remarked: "J vish to ; remark to the court that Ibis witness ! is entitled to entire couOdcncc, as he I has not had time toconsult his lawyer." |