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Show i"kli:vgs. Dying Frenchmen mako wills bequeathing be-queathing their sits to Prussia. The Chinese arc contracting a laste for lager beer. A Kentucky eloping party consisted of a gent, lady, and three daughters. Tho washer-women of Kingston, Eng., demand thrco pints of beer a day. llc-Ncvcr-Wccps, is the nanio of Red Cloud's brother, they call him "Old-Drj-Up." The guillotine has been introduced into Pei u, and works to the satisfaction satisfac-tion of all parties. Disraeli is said to bo engaged on another an-other novel, in which Socialism is to be treated as Catholicism was in "1Othair." The habit of eating arsenic to beautify beau-tify the complexion is said to bo largely large-ly on the increase among both sexes in New York. A California jury, in a suicide case lately, found tho following verdict: "Wo, the jury, liud that the deceased was a fuol." The gaUows is an institution that has been too muoh neglected by the American people of lato years, sadly says a dealer in suspenders, So many cases of hydrophobia have taken place iu Paris this season that dogs are absolutely lbrbiddeo to enter any public place on pain of instant annihilation. an-nihilation. Tho Memphis Appeal honestly confesses con-fesses to its practical dcfioilioa of overy day political principle : "Tho black ! man is our 'colored citizen' when he votes for us, but otherwise a 'dam nigger.' " The most gallant man ever heard off is ono who refrained from kicking a dog that had bitten him because it was a female dog. "If it wasn't for your sex," said he, "I'd kick your head 1 off." The late Sarah C. Lewis, spinster, of Braintree, Mass., by hor will gave to one Elizabeth J. Joslyn, the use of her house and land as long as she lives, honors and cherishes the cats said spin- , ster left. Oa tho death of, not Miss , Joslyn, but the cats, the property goes to the Univcrealist society. Apropos of tho petrifaction of Maz-zioi's Maz-zioi's corpse, the art is by no means new in Italy. At the commencement of the present century it was practiced by a medical man at Florence, aod in one of the hospitals of the town the bosom of a woman is shown which was petrified by him. It has all tho appearance ap-pearance of ivory, and is in a perfect siato of preservation. A romantic marriage occurred at Cleveland, Ohio, last week, the partios to which had never seen each other until an hour before the ceremony took place. This novel affair was brought about by the proprietor of a tailoring establishment to whom the woman applied for work and who advised ad-vised her to marry one of tho workmen who was matrimonially inclined. Thus the ice was broken; in twenty minutes they were engaged, and within sisty minutes from the time the woman had entered the store, the twain were one. Far oil" my dream, and yet unearthly fflir Tho vision of thy beauty in my heart, Iiov'ring between my thought and its despair, And mercifully keeping them apart. Swoet as tho mother's lullaby which brings Forget fulness ' twixt infancy and tears; Culm as the misty shade time wisely flings Between to-day, and past and future yoarc. Dear as tho last fond look tho lover holds Between his heart and doubt's oppressive oppres-sive gloom, Blest as the radiant vista Faith unfolds. To part the mourner from eternal doom. Thus thou with mo, my dream of comfort com-fort stay ! Ify Hope, my Life in Death, pass not away I |