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Show PERSONAL, ETC. Bonner pays hia best Ledger story writers $10,000 a year. The guerilla Mosby proposes to pen a law office in Washington. The rep rt is revived that Prince Bismarck's daughter is to marry a Catholic. Theodoro Tilton ia drawn as a juror to serve in the Brooklyn city court this week. The witty and genial pnet, John G. Saxe, is recovering from a long and painful illness. A Massachusetts company is inak-I inak-I ing a thousand dollar sword lor General Butler ! It is said that nearly 400 competitors competi-tors have sent in designs for the new French postage stamps. The now census of Charleston, S.C., shows an excess of colored inhabitants inhabit-ants as compared with whites of 7.4S4. Governor Osborne says that the surplus sur-plus grain raised in Kansas this year if loaded in cars, would make a train 1,600 miles long. In 1868 George Francis Tiain predicted pre-dicted that the Bank of California would collapse in a single day, and he was nearly mobbed. A Boston paper says that enough can be Baved on an overcoat to take one to Montreal and back, so high are the charges for tailoring in Boston. The city clerk of Boston, Mr. Mc-Cleary Mc-Cleary (and, by the way, this omce has been in the McCleary family for about ninety years) receives ft salary of $5,000 a year. The New York Herald estimates that the people of that city spend daily $1,500,000 on solid articles of fnl mi nverfivp, of ft dollar and a half to every person. P. T. Barnum has bought the Olympic theatre block on Broadway, near Houston street, New York, and proposes to build a superb hotel. The ground cost $650,000. The St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazelle Bays: Not only have no women been sold or offered for sale in St. Joseph, but even tho poorest are able to support themselves and two or three children. Sylvanua Cobb, jr., the well-known sensational novelist, was discovered dead drunk at the eastern depot in Boston, Saturday, and taken to the police station, where it was found that be had been robbed of a large sum of mcney. The California sceptic who deposited depos-ited a $100 gold note in a bank at San Diego, which is to be given to any spiritualist who can tell him the number of it, sarcastically announces that he will not pay interest while they are guessing at it. "I haven't eaten a mouthful in two dayB," said a tramp, "and my wife and three children are starving at, home." "I would give you some-, thing," the philanthropist replied, "but I have nothing smaller than a five dollar note." "I will change it for you," Baid the tramp. N. Y. Com. Adrt. |