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Show j 1'KLILVGS. ! An KnL'li'li ra-ly under lurfy has buried her .-ixtli lm.-L.md. An Kui;li.h coume-i I'vr lack cf, something Ix-tler to do, hax written :i volume ou the diseases of l-hw. The Uraiid Jury of Chicjio have re-t re-t filled very properly to indict Cenoml llieiidun for beiujj aceesaory to l lie killing of Col. Un).-venor by ohl- ol' tlie : hoiue fcuuid. Chicago, within the uet three years, will want, for building purposes alone, SiJU.i'OO tons of iron. She will need, during the same time, $3O,O00,0uG worth of lumber. Ceutuuariei of churehe are now be- ! ing celebrated in many placed in the United States; 1771 appears to have been a great year for the foundation of churches in America. The public libraries of Italy, according accord-ing to tho returns for liiTU, number twenty-eight, and during 1870 were ro-sortcd ro-sortcd to by 713,369 readers, or on an average by 2o,S4 each. Robert Dale Owen, whose "Footfalls on the Boundary of another World'' was published in lSti, had another ghostly book in press, lo be entitled The Debatable Land Between the Two Worlds." Tlie Paris Uaulois having asserted that the Uerman troops stole, in France, two thousand pianos and twenty twen-ty thousand valuable clocks, the Uerman Uer-man Ambassador in Paris has brought an action for libel against it. Chicago ittmilicH of three persons receive daily a peck of potatoes, three pounds of pork, one pound of sugar, one pound of cheese, threo loaves of bread, one pound of crackers, ono bar of soap, one cabbage, and two quarts of onions. A Ghicago paper says: 'iTheciahns come of plain and wholesome food, plain and decent clothes, plain and honest ways. Vanity must be crucified.' cruci-fied.' Amusements must be largely home-made and inexpensive." A big firo might be useful in other cities. Count Andreasyy, the Hungarian prime minister, wrote recently io a friend who helped him in J849: "I have nover forgotten you since you gave mc something to oat at a time when I was nearly famished, and had not a shilling in my pocket to buy bread with. Come to Vesth and be my guest," The story is told by tho Rev. Newman New-man Hall of a negro proaeher who informed in-formed his flook that Adam was made of wet clay, and sot up against some palings to dry; and upon a skeptical darkey rising to ask, "who made the paling, den?" retorted: "Sit down, sari such questions as dat would upset any syslcni of theology. A clergyman met a bewildered young man out in Chicago avenue while the flames were licking up the north side, who asked in bewilderment, "Where am I?" On being informed, he said: "Well, I've been married three weeks, and I don't know whero my wife is but if she's burned it is the Lord's will, let her go!" and off lie started. |
