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Show roKEIVx ITEMS. ,tMuieyh.Wmilmsijb0 P i failJreS0W pcllte)1"'i(, hibition Qen. Butterfield is giving swell dinners din-ners ia Paris. Pope Pius IX sleeps thirteen hours daily, rid oats four hearty meals. The Russian orown prinoo and his consort will visit London this month. President Thiers is to have a new boulevard in Paris named after London publishers are quarreling furiously over ono of Mark Twain's books. j . Two type-setting machines are working work-ing sansfactorily in tbe office of tbe London Times. Tom Sayers, jr., son of tho late ohampion oi England, ia vocalising ; , a London music-hall. t The ei-king Don Fernando, of Portugal, Por-tugal, and the countess d'dia, his wile, are in Germany. In Leghorn, which has such a reputation re-putation for bonnets, the women wear kerchiefs on their heads. England has finally decided that the hours lor closing up liquor saloons at night must be uniform throughout the country. The brother of the king of Portugal, f a pupil of Rossini, recently made an appearance as a lenor at one of M Lhicrs sonees. J,ck0'rard- of Bradford, jumped 29 feet i inches, from a firm block of wood two feot long, wedge shaped raised four inches in front, on Chester race course, England. Howard made i forward jump over a billiard board jlaoed lensthwiM,atiIarichester,Eng , or 200. s ' I m |