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Show ITVKLTNGS. Forty-one divorced licr diem is tbe Ixst quotation Jro'u AHen county, Iud. Berlin, wiib a population of nine hundred thousand, hius seventeen daily papers. Sowing maL-hinc.s aio .oou to l-c introduced in-troduced in the public schools of the State of North Carolina. The Germans have commenced the ; construction of a ibrt in the environs j of Strasbourg, between jMunsdlehclui j and llausbergen. j It has been etimaloJ that since the discovery of gold in Colorado, California Califor-nia gulch mining district has produced over $2,000,000 in dust. Philadelphia newspapers show much philanthropic solicitude in advising patients pa-tients wiLh small pox not to frequent public assemblages. Chaisa A. Dana, of the Now York Sun , claims that, while assistant secretary secre-tary ol'war, he saved Grant from being sent home to Galena. There is a rumor that the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad proposes to estend itself into New England by the lease of the lioston, Hartford and Erie road. A little note from Jim Fik to Mrs. Manslicld: "Dear DollyWhen you past me at I ho gait last night without loohin at me my hurt was pirserf." Tho Paris municipal council think it wilhin ils jurisdiction lo decree gratuitous gratui-tous and obligatory instruction in the 1 city, and will probably do so very soon. : A newspaper writer in Chicago suggests sug-gests that in order to avuid another conflagration houses be built with hollow hol-low walls to be kept full of water. Sir Charles Dilkc predicts that ((a good many loafers about tho throne will some day bo permitted to work for a living instead of plundering those who do work." A Michigan doctor, who was arrested arrest-ed because his patient died, has been acquitted on the ground that ho did all he could, giving all the medicines he knew the names of. General Joseph E. Johnston, the man who fought and won the battle of Fair Oaks and Bull Run, and tiie masterly mas-terly retreat on Atlanta, is preparing a history of his campaigns for the press. The London Morning Punt will soon celebrate its one hundredth anniversary, anniversa-ry, having been established in 1772. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was at one time its editor, and Southoy and Lamb contributors. Some western ulmrchos have adopted the plan oi' having the collections taken up by young ladies of beauty. They look smilingly at a reluctant, victim and give him a slight wink. This process pro-cess always wins. Legal proceedings have been begun in Omaha against the Union Pacific transfer company fur charging lifty cents cacli for ferriage of foot passengers passen-gers across the Misaouri river while the Statcl aws lis the rale at ten cents. , They have a young lady in Boston with hair so long that she can sit on it. Another girl of the same city claims the palm because her hair falls to her feet and trails a quarter of a yard on the floor. It is seventy-five inches in length. Judgment has been given aga'mM, the Union Pacitic transfer company at Omaha for charging fifty cents for eou-vcying eou-vcying passengers across I lie river, while the law of Nebraska only permitted permit-ted them to charge ten cents. An appeal ap-peal will be taken from the decision. Another link in Mr. Darwin's chain of evidence is supplied by the report that daring tho recent epidemic of yellow yel-low fever in Brazil, (he monkeys there were as prone to take the disease as wore the human residents. Other animals an-imals were exempt from contagion. |