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Show rO It LION ITEMS. - The British parliament is to be pro-: pro-: rogued on Saturday, j Hicks, a veteran Eoglish turfite, died : at Cravesend Tuesday last. ' Ireland has an excitement over re-I re-I ported gold discoveries near Kmsale, j That once superb, but now shattered I tenor, poor old Brignoli, is singing in j London. Paul Du Chaiilu is gathering mate-i mate-i rial for more juvenile books in the in- terior of Norway. Mr, Kobcrt Browning is libcllously I dubbed by a London paper, "OurOwn i Walt Whitman-" ! A Geneva dispatch says the board i on Tuesday heard the arguments on the j case of the Xhcnandouh. I The 100,000 volumes belonging to 1 the Tycoon, ate to bo turned into a ; public library for Yokohama. MM. Saint Marc, Girardin, Leo and Dufenille havo become attached to the staff of the Journal de l'aris. The king of Belgium will probably bo present at the meeting of the German Ger-man and Austrian sovereigns at Berlin. Tho empress Maria of Russia has written an angry letter to the king of Bavaria in regard to the manner in which that eccentric monarch has jilted her only daughter. An enterprising eight-year-old Parisian Pari-sian recently put verdigris in his uncle's eoup, which he had lirst skilfully prepared pre-pared by mixing copperas and vinegar. He wanted to hvo alone with his aunt. Napoleon is about to visit Carlsbad. He hopes to avoid any diplomatic explanations ex-planations of his presence in Bohemia. The Austrian government has sent him a note expressing gratification at his assurance. Waohtel, with a young American lady, gave a concert on board the Alsa-tia, Alsa-tia, on his recent journey home, and the proceeds, $500, were given to the family of a sailor who had been knocked overboard and drowned. |