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Show Pomeroy's cravats osght to be cheap. St. Paul's beard of trade numbers seventy. Yosemite soctab'es are anew wrinkle in 'ew York. The Shah of Persia is buildiof; a Dew ten-acre palace. Milwaukee's emall-pox quota for last month was fifty-two. An effort is makiDfr to revive silk culture at Beaufort, S. C Tennessee thinks it can undersell Pennsylvania in the matter of'iroo. NcrotiationB for a lecture by Mrc. Wood hull, at Tcrre Haute, arc pcod-log. pcod-log. A Russian company has been organized or-ganized to cultivate tea in the Caucasus. Cauca-sus. During the recent abscooe of a Detroit De-troit family, the house was entered and the cook stove stolen. The annual convention of Free Masons will be held at Indianapolis, March 25, 26 and 28. I lbe Stuttgart bakers have called their rolls and risen on a strike, to loaf until they get more wagec. A disused graveyard at Providence baa been adopted auhi site of the new Btate-houso of Rhode Island. A Dubuque man is goiDg to California Califor-nia with $(j0,0u0 worth of hamB. What a "ham tat man" is hel Tissue-paper masquerade parties are the latest fashionable recreations. Jenkins Jen-kins thinks they are iltoo thin." A very handsome human skeleton, save tho Chicago Post, "will bring four dollars Lnd a hail' in Cincinnati." The right of the cily to make money out of the "social evil" is to be argued in tho district court of St. Paul. A second-hand dress and a ekein of yarn were recently exohanged for forty acres of land in Texas county, Mo. The pope, conscious of the needs of S relates attached to the Vatican, has eoided to pay them a full month's salary. Milk is becoming a fashionable bev-erago, bev-erago, and now "my Lord Tomnoddy" has his milk cocktail evory morning at break of day. The building for the industrial exposition expo-sition at St. Louis is to be of iron and glass, but its dimensions and location have not yet been determined. Poor orthography saved a fellow at Cairo. He wrote a letter promising to "mary" a girl, and the jury wouldn't make "marry" out of the word. A oartoon in the Berlin Kladdera-datsch Kladdera-datsch ehows the British lion as being entwined, Laoooon like, by the Muscovite Musco-vite serpent in Asia. The motto is, "Slow but sure." Col Forney is credited with being bold six days in the week, but timid as a woman and superstitious as a Hindoo on Friday. He won't even Btart on a journey on Friday. It is said that governor Geary died from the effects of hair dye, the sugar of lead, which is tho principal ingredient ingre-dient in Buch nostrums, having poisoned poison-ed the scalp and affected the brain. A gentleman telegraphed to Vienna last week for rooms at a leading hotel for his family during the exposition. Ho received the reply; "Houses hero full until November. Try Dresden." Kansas Cily proposes to dip its little dipper deep into water-works water for 100,000 people; 5,000,000 gallona daily, twelve miles of main, cost $S00,-000, $S00,-000, to commence in sixty days, and equirt inside of twenty months. |