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Show I'KLI'GS. The White Sulphur springs in Virginia Vir-ginia are now open for visitors. Charles Francis Adams, jr., is to orate at Boston on the Fourth. j The man who never altera his opit.- ! ion is like standi water, and breeds , reptiles in the mind. Tho curious custom of the Faria morning papers is to date their journals jour-nals one day ahead. Out of 1,000 pictures submitted for i the London International exhibition this year.only 600 have been accepted. Why does a German naturally make the best performers on a wind instrument? instru-ment? Because he was born a Teuton (a tootin). Fourteen Democratic newspapers in Tennessee four daily) have placed the Greeley and Brown ticket at the head of their oolumns. The Duko of Devonshire allowed bis son, the marquis of Uartineton, while ; he was still uoder age, $460,000 a year as college pocket money. Ex-mayor Smith, of Brooklyn, who recently died worth over a million dollars, dol-lars, began life as a milkman, when Brooklyn was a mere village. Col. Mayor, an officer in the Union army during the war, is now under sentence of death in Mexico, for having hav-ing participated in the rebellion. The Memphis Appeal thinks that Tennessee will roll up 50.000 majority for Greeley and Brown, if they arc indorsed in-dorsed by the Baltimore convention. Some old-fashioned weapons have lately been dug up at Abaco, one of tho Bahama Islands, supposed to have been left there by the early buccaneers ; of the Caribeenn sea. "Ah, Dick, I have buried my brother sinco I saw you." "Served him right," said Dick- "What do you mean sir?" was then demanded. "Why," said Dick, "would it have been serving him right to leave him uobusied?" "Mr. Speaker," said a member of the Jamaica legislature, discussing a bill for tbe regulation of tho Limber trade, "1 know these timber merchants mer-chants to be the most egregious rascals ras-cals I was in the timber line myself nearly twelve years." The Paris Journal announces that Miss Nellie Grant ia one of the most highly educated women in the United States. Also, that when she comes home she will marry a rich manufacturer manufac-turer of New York, "who is a member mem-ber of the American parliament." Frank Buckland, of England, writos to Seth Green, the New York fish breeder, that he has successfully introduced intro-duced American brook trout into Eng lish waters. From eggs sent him threo years ago by Mr. Green, he now has j trout of two and three pounds weight, Wonder-mongers in Poland are jubilant jubi-lant over the presence among them of a Russian peasant of gigantic sizo. This altitudinous personage is nearly nine feet in height, and modestly claims to he the tallest man in the world. He is probaby correct in bia assertion, A Missouri wifo planned an elopement elope-ment with a seductive chap, and gave him two hundred dollars and her effects, ef-fects, directing him to meet her at tbe town of Louisiana. Her effects met her there all right, but the man and the two hundred dollars failed to put in an appearance. A Mississippi 'partfr tolto n vy i-"' freshing story of a young lady who, on graduation from school, went home, hired a few colored laborers, and went to farming. The result of tbe first acajou 'a experiment was six hundred bushels of enrn. a large quantity ot potatoes, po-tatoes, and $069 realized from the sale of cotton, after all the expenses of the year were paid. |