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Show 1KLIGS. I No diforccis ar ubtainable in Japan. Switzerland his furty-three daily papers. Suiokiot! saloons" in theatres are advocated. ad-vocated. Kzkh ate six cents a duzen in Col-unubui, Col-unubui, Ga. Two New Yorkers are to have a match at plucking quails. Ono oi" the "spirit medium" Fox sisters has married a London lawyer. An Alabama woman ha3 just gained her case in court by argUiDg it herself. her-self. A bill prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sunday has parsed the Kentucky senate. Vermont contains 1JO,000 cows, which yielda their owners annually The kicg of Holland has signed a decree utterly disinheriting his vicious and dis.sjpat.ed son. Minnesota has more solid land for sale since the treat freeze than any other State in the union. It is eaid that the pewspapers arc the mean! of a great ujauy ladies "getting their backs up." Paul Chess Worphy isn't a lawyer in New Orleans, a current paragraph to the contrary notwithstanding. A Massachusetts woman who died a few days ago left nine helpless boys, five of whom are deaf and dumb. The thermometer registered seventy-nine seventy-nine degrees in tho shade at St. Augustine, Augus-tine, Florida, on the 3d of January. The Galveston papers are urging tho merchants of that p'.aoo to stop leaving leav-ing the doors of lhi-ir stores open ail night. Chicago has 2 SI 8 drunkard mrinu-faoturics, mrinu-faoturics, and only one Inebriate Home to accommodate the products of these shops. The Torre Haute city council has passed an ordinance imposing a Line upon any bystander at a fire who refuses re-fuses to aid the firemen. At last, Bays tho Cincinnati Times, the guilty wretch who smote the mar-hie mar-hie brow of Billy Patterson has been identified. It is Oakes Ames. George Sand's translation of the Psalms is pronounced by the critics, to whom she has read specimens of it, the noblest work she has ever written. Covington, Ky., fines young men $4 each for lounging on a Btreet corner over ten miDutcs. . Hero is another suggestion of a method of paying off the national debt. Mary McArdlo lately died at Feng-hal. Feng-hal. Ireland, at the aire of 115 vears. Her strong point was that she worked with the reapers last harvest and kept up with her son, a irisky youth of 77. A dentist much given to swearing has often been lectured for it by the pastor under whom he sits, and with whom he has just made a compact to use no other oath heroaftor than "by gum." . Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, proposes pro-poses to start a cross between a hotel and a college, where cooks may go through special oourses and all classes of domestics graduated in their several degrees. Secretary Robeson discovered that he was standing on a lady's train, and exclaimed, " Though I may not have the power to draw a mortal from the skies, I have pinned an angel to the earth." 'The lady did not seem to bo in the least offended. |