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Show f"KLIGS. I Censure is the tax a inau pays to the public for being eminent I The Catholic priest at Westerly, H. 1 1., has prohibited che members of his I church from engaging in the liquor : business. I A kind lady who sent to an editor a mince pie wich a request to "please insert, was assured that such articles are never crowded out by presa of other matter. The l'redbyteriaiis of the United PreabyteriaH Church are discussing the question, "la 1'apal baptism valid?" Some vote ayo, some no, some both ways, and some are mum. "Bridget, your are quite an artist, how do you ornament these pies so itiuely?" (Before a table i'uH of vial-'tore). vial-'tore). "Indade, luuui, ain't it puny? : Faith I did it wid your false teeth, mum." Mayor Aguilcr of Los Angeles, California, Cal-ifornia, ia a Spaniard, and does not speak or writo the English language. ' lie sends bt9 messages to the common j council in Spanish, and has them read : by an interpreter. ; A bachelor sea-captain was complaining complain-ing that he couldn't get a satisfactory chief officer, when a young lady remarked re-marked that she bhould like a situation situa-tion as first mate. The captain took i the hint and tho girl. From careful experiments made by la physician of Lyons, it has been as-Icertained as-Icertained that the old remedy of warm j water is the best solvent of accumula- ted wax in the ear, being superior to j olive oil, glycerine, etc. i "Why do you set your oup of colloe upon the chair, Mr. Jones'?" said aj worthy landlady, one morning, at breakfast, "It is so very weak, ma'am,'1 replied Jones, demurely, "I thought I would let it take a rest." Ben. Montgomery, the ux-slave who , bought the Jeff, and Jo. Davis plantation, plan-tation, near Vicksburg, for $300,000, , has just bought another large "estate j adjoining, and expects to make 3,500 bales of cotton this season. j It has been decided by the Bavarian ; government, that no Bavarian Cath-olic Cath-olic priest can be punished or sua-, pended by his bishop, for not acknowl-1 acknowl-1 edging the decisions of the late council, ; and the dogma of infallibility. ; A woman should be amiable, benev-' benev-' olcnt, charitable, domestic, forgiving, generous, honest, industrious, judicious, judi-cious, kind, loving, neat, cheerful, reflecting, re-flecting, tender, urbane, virtuous, wise, and exemplary. So should a man. The Statesman says that oue of the men of Concord, New Hampshire, i most conversant with history, is i'oie- . man of the blacksmith department of a carriage factory, and another of su-i su-i perior literary taste and acquisition is engaged in the manufacture of churns. A singular pa iter was road the other day before the Missouri Dental Asso-! Asso-! ciation. It stated that the profession in the country numbers about 14,000 j members, of whom about one-half are I totally ignorant of the commonest principles prin-ciples of dentistry. Of the other half, , at least 4,000 are incapable of performing perform-ing the simplest operations with benefit ben-efit to their patients. The remainder j occupy a position of mediocity. Only !a very small portion are capable of hilling hi-lling the biggest function of the profession. pro-fession. This is certainly a startling j piece of infornjatioq, |