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Show ! I.KL1GS. I Rich reading for the Prince of Wale? his obituary notic.-s. W lien you h'ar a man say "Life ia I but a dream," tread on hU corni. Lii'e is real. A PuK'hnuui day-: I doesn't like de milk, 1 petd id Milwaukee. I likes de uddrr kinX A 'ermont iiicicii!turi.-t has sold -,I M MJ pounds ol'trout of his owd raiint' ior seventy-live cents a pound. A boarding-house keeper m'ued some patent medicine in hid hih because be-cause it was advertised as a cure ior consumption. Anonymous writers for the press wast white paper enough to iill up a dozen llum.D's every day for a year, ritill they keep up their infernal scrib- The Apaches arc to be naturalized by order of congress. They must prove their good habits that ia that they have killed no one within the last five years. "The strongest propensity in a woman's nature," saysacaretul student of the sex, ''is to want to know what! ia going on, and the nest is to boss the job." Storied Luekuow reappears ns tho scene of a new terror, hito dispatches staling that the cholera is ra ging with great fatality among the natives of that place and vicinity. In New England "flannel receptions' ' are now the rago. Women assemble and sew for the poor one hour. Further steps are then taken l'or the relief of poverty by dancing three hours. Presidential candidates are numerously numer-ously announced. Tho latest is Col. Tom Scott, president of tho Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Central, l'or President, and Gen. Wm. A. iMahon, of Confederate fame, president of tho Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad, for Vice President a team which rail-ly will never run. One of tho so-called semi-official German newspapers is of the opinion that the rebellious spirit of the inhabitants inhabit-ants ofthe conqurcd provinces of Alsace and Lorraine can not be cured in this generation, while it laughs at the idea t of firing "the French heart" with a hope of ever reconquering the disputed territory. Two skeletons were recently dis-; dis-; cevcrcd at Hampton Court palace, near London, and there is a controversy contro-versy in tho newspapers as to whether they arc not those of lord Francis Yil-liers Yil-liers and Richard Grenvillo, shot by Cromwell's order at Hampton Court the day before Charles the First's execution. . The Jacksonville (Ala,) Republican says there is a lady living at Columbiana, Columbi-ana, Shelby county, who gave birth to a child a few days ago, at the age of 73 years. She is the mother of several children, the youngest of which, before this one, is 32 years old, and the molher of several children also. The old lady was doing well at last accounts. Tho Internationals are availing themselves of the agency and power of the press to disseminate their doctrines. A Madrid journal says they have established es-tablished anofiicial organ in Spain, and another is published in the French language at London. Efforts arc also being made to found a French-English International journal in New York. San Francisco is already favored with a kindred'publication, entitled the South San Francisco Enterprise. |