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Show IIVKLn'GS. Par'iB is to nave a baby show. Hartford hopes to have publio baths. Omaha grasshoppers eat toads. Norfolk, Va., has open-air preach ing. Terse advice for tbe. Galena tanner Hide, ' Every oircus kills its man in Sedalia, Missouri. Montgomery, Alabama, has had an ice famine. Fernando Wood says all "good men" are for Greeley. One lady at Saratov wears diamonds dia-monds that cost $225,000. "Greeley Bitters" is the name of the latest Democratic drink. Mosscl, the Western gymnast, is about to marry a dumb belle. Andrew Johnson is said to look placid, comfortable and roy. Strauss is at home telling marvelous tales about tbe United States. Tho President yearns to make tho Granite State tho Grantite State, The green-apple gripo is" the prevailing pre-vailing complaint in Erecport, IIU. Mrs. Jones, of Chicago, died four hours after kindling a tire with kerosene. kero-sene. Rhode Island clam bakes are having it all to themselves at Watch Hill Point. Fresh and pretty country girls are ' employed as waiters at the Ryo Beach hotels. W. H. Seward is getting around homeward in his round-the-world narrative. Tho ooal fields in China are said to ! oover an area of upwards of 400,000 Equare miles. Captain James B. Eads has been made a Doctor of Laws for St. Louis bridge building. Queen Victoria has still another Sanddaughter, born to the Princess olena of Denmark. There are in the United Statca 5,515,343 childron under five years of age 2,797,887 boys, 2,717,450 girls. A woman in Traverse city, Mich., was unable to close her mouth for two days after indulging in an unrestrained yawn. , The future ne'er troubled judge Barnard, the pleasant- His maxim, the bar Bays, was "just for tho pres-sent" pres-sent" The Albany (Ga.) Central city compares com-pares a lady on a dashing palfrey to a cat-fish sliding on a slippery sunbeam." sun-beam." An old lady bathing at Long Branch, with her spectacles on but without her wig, was recently taken for Mr. Gree-ey, Gree-ey, and drew a great crowd. Field Marshal Von Moltke spends his time in smoking an enormous pipe and reading the newspapers at a beer shop in the town of Schweldnitz. A fishing party in Lowndes, Ga., last week, captured six hundred Cue fish, twenty terrapins, three soft shell , turtles, six gars and one alligator. A little girl in Gordon county, Ga., has for some time past been making a pet of a large black snake. The paii take their meals together, and arc on terms of great intimacy. The city council of Montgomery Ala,, have given due notice that aJ dogs found near the market-house dur ing market hours, no matter how re apectably connected, will have thei narratives amputated one inch soull of their ears. |