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Show ALL SORTS- A woman recently starved to death in Passaic county, New Jersey. Tbo Detroit Free Press Bays that the Davenport brothers havo retired from their business of being exposed. A French jury have found one of their countrymen guilty of atoning his wile to death, "with extenuating circumstances." cir-cumstances." Intelligence from Teheran states that tho authorities have punished the persons guilty of having burned alive tho Israelite Jchuda. It may be presumed that the Mr. Cod who married a miss Fish, at Sterling, Connecticut, last wock, will be the founder of ft family of cod-fish aristocracy? "Puts" and "calls" may be properly proper-ly defined thus: You put your money in the hands ot a broker for tho purpose pur-pose of speculation and call for the profits in vain. John Morrissey is a successful man. As prize-fighter, politician and faro-banker, faro-banker, he has highly distinguished himself, and' now he overtops them all as a fox hunter. The earnest efforts of Princo Milan, of Servia, for the preservation of peace, havo been bnflled after all. His highness was married at Belgrade on the 17th of October. The Pall Mall Qazctle admits the superiority of opera boufl'e actresses who havo made their reputation in America, to the great majority of those trained in England. The supreme court of Misaouri haa decided that $1,000 is not an excessive sum to pay a lady for an illegal Idas when by a conductor, and that a railroad rail-road company is responsible for such acts by its conductors. The society in New York known as the Order of United Irishmen, Kedi-vivi, Kedi-vivi, haa already condemned to death as traitors three men who held the laws of their church paramount to the laws of the order. A Canadian gunsmith, who held tobacco tracts in contempt, happened to have his pipe in hia mouth when he went out with two pounds of powder pow-der under his arm. He will never worry his cleanlier fellow-beings again. A Nebraska jury haa decided that a husband has no risht to whip his wife with a stick and then sprinkle her I with red pepper. How far is this encroachment en-croachment on our rights to proceed? Can't a man odd a little spice to matrimony? Massachusetts insurance companies have given notice that if the tiro departments de-partments of sundry towns and cities persist in spending ball their time in parades, pic-nics and target excursions, excur-sions, all policies held in Bitch place will be cancelled. Tiie government building at the Centennial grounds will bo Bet oil with hugo howitzers and monster DahlgroD amooth-bores, lately brought from League island, and mounted up on the foundation now being built for them. Two of them weigh 43,000 pounds each, carry a 4(11 pound ball, and requiro a chargo of 120 pounds of powder. |