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Show IXKLKVGS. A Detroit man tLrew a clnb at a cat and brought down his youngest. The Prince of Wales finds i;0'25,000 per annum insufficient lor his private I expends. I It is reported that Russia contemplates contem-plates raUinn a new loan of flo.onn,-000. flo.onn,-000. A stono was recently nuarried on Lake Superior that is 1 10 feet long and S feet thick. It is rumored that the crown prince of Germany will pay a visit to the United States next autumn. A New Orleans paper has just "respectfully "re-spectfully declined" a poem 3,t;o0 foot long. If An orthodox overdose of conversion has driven a Jackson county woman insane. c Tho famous llelmhold, whom the sheriff is now selling out, owes it is 1 said, ahout $300,000 for newspaper ad- vertising. Austin Gavin, aged thirty-five years, died at Scrnnton, Pennsylvania, ol '"' hydrophobia, April Pith, llcwasbit-ten llcwasbit-ten five montlis ago. A raio slorm, producing heavy ircsh-ts ircsh-ts has dono great damage to the oa'ds, bridges and lumber throughout Nova Scolia. A two-slory hotel, with a French roof, lo accommodate two hundred guests, is projected at. the summit ol Mount Washington. Can a woman keep a secret? If she be married she can, but if she have a husband he never will bo happy until un-til he has ooaxed it out of her. Hon. Win. Allen, of Ohio, is fho solo survivor of the United Stales seunle of 1SI7-S, when Clay, Webster and Calhoun were among its members. "Which of tho Feejeo islands are you from?" asked a visitor of one of Barnum's cannibals the other (lay. "Tipperary, be uad, was iuo rcpiy oi the ravenous anthropophagian. A botanic doctor in Manchester has been fined for throwing cayenne pepper pep-per in the eyes of a patient as the closing "argument" in a dispute about herbs. Uncle John Harper's famous horse Longfellow goes to Long Branch, by a special train, which Mr. Scott runs through without change, to run lor the Monmouth cup, ih miles, in which race he will meet tho splendid English colt Sterling. 1 Two guileless Iowa maidens induced two jocose Iowa youths to go through (l, mnrrinfffi ceremony with them "just for fun." This done, the guileless guile-less females produced previously-prepared licenses and certificates, and tho jocoso individuals aro now at liberty to repent nt leisure. The poker as an instrument of correction cor-rection has becu introduced by a female fe-male teacher in an Indiana public school. It is more durable than the ordinary birch, but parents and guardians, guar-dians, for some reason or othert do not seem to approve of the innovation. An exchange remarks that several German Princes will soon visit the United States. Some say tho Crown Prince will do so in October. The ro-ooption ro-ooption of tho Prince Alexis in this country has created the greatest sensation sensa-tion among the monarchists of the Old World. By and by the king of the Cannibal islands will want to come. |