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Show lOltElt.X ITEMS. Juan Jose Boz is spoken ef as a prominent candidate for the office of president in tho approaching election in Mexico. Baron Von Rhader, Pauline Lucca's graceless husband, is said to have been very lucky at Baden-Baden three weeks ago. Gen. Glasgow, United States Consul at Havre, has just married an American Ameri-can widow in Paris. The wedding was a fine affair. A woman has been sent to jail for three months by the Liverpool magistrates magis-trates for stripping children in the streets and soiling their clothes. Madame Stella Bonheur, a California Califor-nia woman who is possessed with the idea that she can sing, tried Italian opera in Berlin, and ignominously failed. The Americans in Europe are crowding crowd-ing to Baden-Baden, anxious to reap the last golden harvest. The government govern-ment will olose the place at tho end of the year. Members of the American club, Dresden, have contributed a large sum of money toward the purchase of a fine collection of pictures for the drawirjg rooms of the club house. Somo alarm is felt at the prevalence of conflagrations in Bohemia. Hardly a day has passed sinco the middle of July without some destructive fire in a village town of the province. Tho mysterious drowning of the Marchioness Bornenville, one of the best swimmers in all France, while at the fashionable bathing place at Trou-ville, Trou-ville, ia much commented on. Malinger, Lucca's rival, and she who was discharged irom the Imperial Opera, Buriio, for slapping Pauline's pretty face, wants some manager to make her an offer to go to the United States. The harvest in France this year will bo the most abundant known for a long time. It is estimated at 96,225,000 bushels, and exceeds, at that estimato, the average of the ten preceding years by one-third. . Great excitement was occasioned in Fraserburg, England, on August 20, by the arrival oi the herring fleet, with 10,000,000 of herriags, the value of which may be roundly stated at 15,000 to 16,000. Fancy two New York " swells " climbing tho Alps iu tall silk hats, fashionable clothing and kid gloves 1 The good and innocent people of Switzerland Swit-zerland are inclined to look upon the recent sight as an apparition. Damages to the extent of 350,000 francs have just been awarded against the Lyons and Mediterranean Company to eleven families, members of which were killed or injured by a train running run-ning off the rails at Champigny on SepL 16, 1871. The London correspondent of the "Scotsman" understands that, in spite of further remonstrances, the process of embalming the body of Mazzini is still being continued at Genoa, and that, too, in spite of Mazzini's own urgent request that he might be buried in a family grave. An appeal addressed ad-dressed to Garibaldi does not, he says, appear to have led to any interference or protest on the part of the general. |