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Show ikli:vgs. Bancroft is at Baden-Badco. Nasty is worth $2iJO,0OO and owus a farm. Io Virpinia old maids arc called "belated sinter?." An impartial Wisconsin shcot hoists both presidential tickets. De Lesseps, constructor of the Suez canal, is exploring Ihdia. The duke dc Mootpcnsier is living in Paris. Ho is tho queen of Spain. Edward St. Stokes ia suffering at present Irom an attack of bronchitis. An eccentric South Bend beauty carries her husband's hod when he is sick. There's a Prussian drummer at Tu-lin, Tu-lin, who plays on sixteen drums at once. A monkey in the Paris zoological garden possesses a reuiarkabio tenor voice. Steam street cars aro surccssfully introduced and operated in New Orleans. Or-leans. Never have a wooden leg made of oak, because the oak is apt lo produce a corn. Detroit has a parrot which whistles "Old John Brown" and swears in French. A new street car has been fitted up in Savanuah, Ga., for tho exclusive use of negroes. A Detroiler received an order to forward for-ward ;')U0 rats per month to parties in New York. St. Louis has swarms of ugly women. wo-men. So says a person who has been there one month. A Wisconsin pirl fell out of n window win-dow en dishabille, and rut to flight a serenading party. A man must be a puppy who would desire any pleasanter dog-day weather than wo are having. Minnie Ilauck, the prima donna, is in Milan, and soon will be the wife of an Italian nobleman. Emigration in Germany steadily increases, in-creases, in spite of the efforts of the government to check it Over nino hundred children have perished of cholera infantum in New York city within a mon:h. An Albany (Ga.) lawyer offers a cow, a game rooster aud a pip to the first young man that marries there. Tho Bev. Thomas Chalk has been seot from England as a missionary. He is expected to figure well among the heathen. An eccentric Wisconsin man has given orders to bo buried in a copper coffin, inlaid with amvgdiiloid and conglomerate con-glomerate rock. Two African slaves, with their faces much tattood, driving with long reins a pair of ostrichcs.are among the present pres-ent sensations of Puris. The complete census returns of the United States show the total population popula-tion to be 38.559,371, of which J'J,-493 J'J,-493 565 are males and 1 y, 004, 806 females. fe-males. My (trondfnihf r Jrck was an ape. ilia grind:athr Twist was u worm; Each me ha developed in sbace, AdJ ours has trot rii of t ic e., u i no ; If the la of (election will work in our case, We il develop, in time, a wonderful -nee, Darwinian. The tourist season in Switzerland has already had its full annual list of horrors. Four deaths from accidents, two ladies from fallicg over a precipice, two gentlemen by drowning, and one gentleman murdered. Tho Chicago "Times" has received a portrait of Mr. Greeley. The "Times" says; "Beneath the portrait is tnc signature: 'Yours for financial arnica and isoceles trianelcs, Horace Evellcy, Chobinqua, N. Y., June 30, 1872.'" Milwaukee enjoys its own fat woman. Her name it Praegar and Fairbanks hardly does her justice at 535 pounds. She girths five tcet eleven inches over the bosom, five feet two around the hips, two feet four around the arm; and when she laughs her chin wrinkles down into the dark like cellar stairs. |