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Show 1MCLIXGS. Wilkio Collins is coming over in January. Helen Josephine Mansfield is studying study-ing for tho French stago in Pari. The construction of the Canadian Pacific railway is to begin next year. Memphis is debating the question of making women members of her school committees. Notice is given to the 400,000 ladies in Philadelphia that leap year is drawing draw-ing to a dose. Thcro aro six white people in Alaska. They are very neighborly with each other, At Pilatka, Florida. $24,000 worth j of oranges wero sold from a nine acre patch this season, Oak'and, Cal.j brags confidently of its ability in a lew years to buy San : Prancisco for a cemetery. . Sothern has played Lord Dundreary twenty-one hundred and three times. Strange if it hasn't boon Dun-drearily with him some tim:s. Threo hundred young ladies havo applied to avail themselves of the permission per-mission acoorded to their sex to study mcdieioe io Su Petersburg. An association of Hindus is to be started at Bombay to encourage the remarriage of widows. Quite unnecessary unneces-sary in the Christian com ui unities. The new Erie railroad company employ female clerks. If this had occurred in poor Flak's time what a stir would have been made about it. The correctional tribunal of Lille has acquitted Mr. Casper, tho English contractor, lately tried for furnishing paper-soled shoes to the French army. Ihe ironmasters of Philadelphia pro-pose pro-pose to erect an iron statue of Horace tireeley. They are "men of metal" and wUl no doubt carry out what they propose. Baron Alphonse de Rothschild and his brothers, Gustave and Edmund, have contributed 25,000 franca to assist the emigration from Alsace and Lorraine Lor-raine to Algeria. Two plugB of tobacco in his pocket stopped a bullet and saved a Kontucky man's life recently, but you will never see this circumstance related and circulated circu-lated io the form of a tract. The reason an urchin gave for being late at school, Monday, was that the boy io the next house was going to have a dressing down with a bed cord, and he waited to hear him howl. An eccentric but benevolent Danbury man hearing that several thousaod workirjg girls lost their all by the Boa-ton Boa-ton fire, yesterday shipped them sixteen six-teen volumes of patent office rcpoits. The dog wiih a singed tail that appeared ap-peared on Main street, Monday alter-noon, alter-noon, was not from Bo too, bnt belongs be-longs to Edward Evans, of this tewn. It had evidently participated in some torchlight procession- A Colorado paper sayi, "wa hope our next legislature will vote funds enough for the establishment of a hospital for the deluded individuals who come to this titate to dif. This is too healthy ft olimate for such people." The Chicago "Post" thinks that an investigation into the Credit Mobilier affair "can do no honest many any harm." Very true; but it is likely to play the very deuce with the dishonest men who are connected with the swindle. "Couriei -Journal |