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Show LK LINGS. A iu-w 'IVnncfM?? rt-Iigious hymn couiains s41 verges. I Fifty Aniericun en!l('ue are now open to i'eniiile students. A Kiehmond negro killed himself by parlikiotf of pounded glass and jelly cake. The life insurance companies of Berlin, Ber-lin, l'rassia, are insuring lives against the uholera. It is claimed in Chicago that the white-washers make more money than the portrait painters. Sqaare-toed shoes are coming in fashion again, and ladies' shoes are to be made with box-toes. A rolling-pin, with which a loving wife had knocked her husband down seven times, came in as evidence in an Indiana trial. A London cabman, lately called off his station by a woman too fat to get into his cab, sued her for his fare, and a magistrate awarded it to him. Each of the junior counsel in the Tichborne case, now on their way to Australia in search of further evidence, receives $22,625 and his expenses. A woman calling herself "Lulu" entertains en-tertains tho British public by bounding into the air twenty-five feet upward, in a perpendicular line. The fall and winter crop of female lecturers bids fair to be very heavy. All sorts of subjects will be introduced. "How to leep )uwn the Family" is announced l.y a ''beautiful Indi.inal lady of twenty live." The San Francisco Call publishes a list of the "wealthy men" of that city. Fifty-one aro millionaires, with fortunes for-tunes running from $1,000,000 to $10,-000,000; $10,-000,000; ten are worth $750,000, and sixty-one have $500,0U0 and upward. A Nashville paper complains of the "low-hied, ignorant and rather hasty impertinence" of tho "sophoinorie swashbuckler" who edits a rival newspaper, news-paper, and thinks he ought to "cultivate "culti-vate a little of that courtesy common among gentlemen." Two additional African ostriches have been added to tho Central Park collection, which has now two pairs of these birds. Looking at them, a few days since, a man from the rural districts dis-tricts exclaimed, "My! what Thanksgiving Thanks-giving turkeys them 'ore birds be!" Mrs. Ole Oleson, ofRichland, while in a crazy fit, threw three or four children chil-dren into a well forty-four feet deep, and tried to throw two others in, but was prevented by a man coming to their relief' Strange to say, the children chil-dren were all taken out alive, and only one was seriously hurt. A healthy-looking trio were duujped at the 0. & M. depot in Vincennes on Tuesday evening. They aggregated lt185 pounds, the avoirdupois oeing distributed as follows: Maternal parent, par-ent, 5S5 pounds: sixteen year old boy, 425 pounds; and an infant phenomenon, phenome-non, of the female persuasion, 175 pounds. Russia imported in 1867, and docs nearly every year, about 38,000,000 rubles ru-bles worth of raw cotton. But none of this cotton goes from the United States, and the cotton mills of Moscow and St. Petersburg which run G,000,-000 G,000,-000 or 7,000,000 spindles, are almost exclusively led from the fields of Egypt, Brazil, and India. |