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Show EOKEIUN ITEMS. An aftornoon theatre ia to be established estab-lished in London for the convenience of country residents, A music dealer in Glasgow announces in his window a now aonsation anne- Thou Hast Loved and Left Me for Eighteen Pence. ' Miss Sarah "W. Barton, an American girl, now studying music in .Florence, is to be prima donna in "WarHaw, Poland, Po-land, next winter. Pappini is the name of tho next great violinist who is to excite the interest of the music-loving, lie has been received with great enthusiasm in Mice. The lord chiof justice of England proposes pro-poses to produce a "summing up" of the evidence on both Bides, in writing, upon the JuniuB controversy. Mile. Schneider is no longer the queen of opera bouflb in Paris, bhe has been displaced by Nidue Judic, who has set naughty Paris wild with enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. Vesuvius is assuming a menacing aspect, as-pect, and is al this momont Bonding lorth a vast column of smoke or vapor, which is in strong contrast (with the clear blue sky in tho background. The forthcoming number of the Edinburgh Edin-burgh Keview will contain a memoir of the late general Lee, the commander-in-chief, from original and other materials, mate-rials, collected by a writer already known from his studies of tho campaign in Virginia. Le Figaro draws attention to tho fact that while tho French government has refused to licence 'it'Oncle Ham' of M. Sardou, for fear of injuring American Ameri-can susceptibilities, the Americans have shown how unnecessary ib such squeam-ishness, squeam-ishness, by arranging for the speedy production of the play In Wow York. The soason at Nice is drawing to a cloBe. The English are leaving it in great numbers. There have been fow Germans there this year, but the Americans Ameri-cans are delaying their departure, and the Russians will, as usual, be among the last representatives of the foreign colony. Thare is to be soon sold in London a peculiar Oriental trophy, a poem on-titled on-titled "Ten Complete Keaords.or a Song f Triumph," written by tho (JhineBe emperor, Kionlung, on the subjugation , of Ghoorkhas. 'ihe poem is in the Chinese language, embroidorod in red silk characters on a dark blue silk ground of twenty-two Jeave or sides. It ia said to have been wrought by the empress and ladies of tho harem. It was captured at the sack of the palace at Pekin. Xing Victor Emmanuel lives when he is in liomo at the Quirinal, the old pal-acd pal-acd of the Fodos, standing on tho most |