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Show IIVKIiLVGS. Naples has a petroleum well. Puroline is a new non-explosivo. Detroit is constructing a nunnery. The Christmas tree mania isappear- ! Snowballing is lively in the Cats kill-. John O. Saxe is amusing Wisconsin cities. A St. Louis lady has patented a fire engine. August Belmont has rented a villa at .N ice. Mr. Darwin, me Gorilla, has evolved 1 a new book. Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson is wintering win-tering in Egypt. The Tennesseeans are agitating compulsory com-pulsory cducaiicn. Georgia has had a snow storm, the first in ten years. Rock Island has picked up forty children for a night school. Sicux City has grown tired of life and proposes a medical college. An Ulinois balloonist expects to make a balloon voyage to California. A ton weighing 1,700 pounds is described as a ''weigh that is dark." Cheyenne county has contracted for $30,000 worth of oourt house and jail. St Louis reports no material falling -it .t.- - (' .nit on in me ruvugeo ui oiuaii yuA auu Boro noee. Senator Conkliog's curl still wags like an imperial drake's tail upon the massive head of the orator. Tbe "oldest citizen" of Missouri died three times last week, and w&b buried in threo different plaoes. In New Haven, a lawyer recently obtained an injunction to prevent his next door neighbor having a "wake." The Kansas asylum for the blind has has received a collection of books left to its iomates by the late Charles Dickens. At Elmira female college, the fair "sophs" have interdicted the weariog of false hair and bustles by the frcsL-womon. frcsL-womon. The driver of a grocery cart, who let a basket of eggs fall, says "that truth 6quashed to earth 'may (ret up and git, but he'll be darned if eggs wilL" In Boston, the relics from the fire most prized are specimens of burned condensed leather, the fine dust of giaoite blocks, and goldcoins melted in fire proof safes. A Lancaster undertaker advertises : ''Get your holiday coffins of J. Water-house. Water-house. Don't go up or down Shawnee street without seeing my stock of caskets and coffins." It is confidently expected that of the sixty-five members of tbe Vale school of journalism one or two may some time gase foolishly into tho paste pot of a country weekly. It is a common saying that great geniuses are uniformly modest, and this, perhaps, suggests an explanation of the uncommon audacity of our public men. Boston "Transcript." Fifty years ago M. Thiers was en-engaged en-engaged on the "Constitutionncl," as an art critic, at the ra'.e of ten dollars an article. His first critique was on the acting of Mrs. Bellamy, then playing play-ing at the Forte St. Martin theatre with an English troupe. |