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Show irVKLl.XGS. Offt.'uLacb holds po.ssion of four I'ritiaii tlicatreb now. At Biiraloo, Wi.-con.-in, liand organ tcreuadL's by daylight are the thing. Thirteen youn ladies have aked to outer llie Vale st-hool for journalism. Trias lias an artecian well which -proms sixJa-water. Flavoring extra. If a man wishes to know the strength oi' evil, let him try to abandon aban-don it. Men may judge us by the success oi our cllorts; (Jud looks at the efforts themselves. The l'oughkeepsie iec-hoais race with the Hudson river locomotives, and beat thoui. Wo mount to heaveu mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, boding our failures were successes. Natchez, Miss., is the only city in the world which has nearly ten thou-.sand thou-.sand inhabitants and not a single hotel. A candidate lor schoolmarm in Henry countr, Ohio, stated on examination exam-ination that Virginia obtained its name i'rom the Virgin Mary. Mr. George Jacques, of Worcester, Mass., has given the city one hundred and tidy thousand feet of land, valued at ."jO.uuu, as a site for a city hospital. Ambassador Mori is pestered with little memento Mori's from multitudinous multitu-dinous maidens who want to be anything any-thing from teachers to treasury clerks in Julian. European cities are looking with favor fa-vor upon asphalt pavement. A test has shown that the lire of a conflagration conflagra-tion would serve to toughen instead of injuring it. It is rumored that one of the beautiful beau-tiful country-seats at Norwalk, Conn., has been taken by the ex-cmpcror and empress, and will be occupied by them next summer. The sculptors must not attempt to idealize Horace (Jrecley when they make his statue. Let us have the man or ho is, straw hat, stout boots, capacious clawhammer coat and all. A colored gentleman of eighty-three was recently married in Mobile. He announced bis intention of going to Texas and finding a locality where he could go into business and grow up with the place. An Irish gentleman in the poetic line has turned the Kilkenny cats into Greek. Translated, this new version of an old song reads thus : Thoro wonst was two cats in Kilkenny, Each thought there was one cat loo many; Bo they quarrelled and tit. They scratched and they bit, Till, excepting their nails, And tho Una ol' their tails, Instead of two cuts there wasn't any." Donn Piatt calls for a rhyme for "Conkling." Nothing is easier: Thoro was a groat statesman called Cawngkling; Ho tenaciously did to the wrong cling; He put on rnoro style Than a man with his pUo Ought to put on, this statesman called Cawngkling. Courier Journal Apropos of the small-pox, our readers read-ers will undoubtedly "take" this passage pas-sage from Shakespeare : If wo sutler " -:i this contagious sickness, Farewell all physic. And what follows then ? Commotion, uproar, with a general taint Of tho whole state; as of Into days our neighbors, Tho upper Germany, can dearly witness, wit-ness, Yet freshly pilied in our memories. King Henry Y1II, Act o, Bcone 2. |