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Show I'KL1.GS. A WaJ 6tvle of aritlitueuc division LUlODg faUJlllCd. Hamilton Fish is a man of much mJ many reBignatioM. i The statistics of Holland show thai j the Dutch send more i'or tobacco than j tor bread. An inquiring correspondent is anxious anx-ious to know if the "crack of doom" has ever been mended. A Columbus paper casually alludes to ; " l'arepa - Kosa, that magnificent, creamy sea of melody." Uncle Sam has 1 ,4uO,OuO acres ot land for sale after his donations for the benefit of railroad?, wliools, colleges, etc. Diamonds in Arizona are advancing. You cannot now purchase really good ones short of sixty cents a bushel. Grace Greenwood acknowledges thai "man is a grand creature, even if he is a little stingy about the franchise." Cancer is cured this week by wild tea. Clover poultices arc no longer a specific, and cuudurango went oui about Christmas time. Munich artists are preparing a superb su-perb picture gallery to be sent to London, Lon-don, to be exhibited and sold for the benefit of the Chicago artists. The es-fjueen of Hanover, tired of waiting for her throne, has resolved to betake herself to a nunnery and turn Roman Catholic. In a Connecticut bar-room a duplicate dupli-cate key of the village cemetery- is prudently kept for tho convenience ol customers. A shawl manufacturer of Philadelphia Philadel-phia lately spun, from a single pound of American wool, a thread of ibrty-scven ibrty-scven thousand yards, or nearly twenty-seven miles. The Chicago Iejmllican will present pre-sent a claim to tho treaty commissioners commission-ers "for expense incurred for the composition com-position of an obituary notico of the Prince of Wales. ' ' Since the end of 1 SCO there have been built 24,0U0 miles of railway ic the United States, which is a largci number of miles than is comprehended in the whole railroad system of France, Germany and Austria combined. A correspondent of a Boston jour rial is authority for the statement that A. T. Stewart intends to leave his entire en-tire fortune, estimated at $50,000,000 to $70,000,000, in public and private charities, and that he recently made a will to that effect. Grand Duke Alexis, when in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, left $25 for "the brave fellow" who stopped the runaway horses on their way to the Belmont mansion. Up to the latest report, only about two dozen olaimants had appeared for the reward, most of whom bolster up their 1 claims with affidavits. j The archbishop of York displayed I his Christian muscularity by alighting from his carriage on the public highway and helping to extricate a cart stuok in the mud. His grace's clothes were somewhat the worse for the operation, but his muscles were first-class. |