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Show IMlLIXGS. Brooklyn has twenty-five lady phys-iciuus. phys-iciuus. There arc now thirty-one Unitarian churches inBoston. The Hudson is as free of ice at Troy as in mid-summer. A colored crowd has emigrated from Macon, ..a., to Kansas. Dandelions are blooming in the fields around Riverton, N. J. A Swedish naturalist has discovered an insect that produces iron. Meascls have not been so fatally prevalent in London since 1S40. Somebody in Dawson, Ga., claims to havo a British coin dated "460." Paris advocates the drowning of criminals convicted of capital of lenses. Melbourne, Australia, has a flourishing flour-ishing school of design, with 1,40 pupils. The colored Masons in Connecticut propose to organize a grand lodge for 1 he titule. Seventy-eight theatres have been burned in the United States in seventy-live years. It is said that there are more than a hundred women studying law in the United States. The New York churches have a total to-tal seating capacity fur 308,500. The population is about a million. Alex. II. Stephens is actually in training, or fancies himself bo, for the .Presidential race in 1S76. The New Orleans Times complains of the taxation in that city being "intolerable, "in-tolerable, unendurable, unoiitTerable." Experiments with a single-track elevited railway have been made in Philadelphia, and pronounced successful. suc-cessful. The saying, "It's too thin," is not a vulgarism. Sheridan Knowle3 puts it into the mouth of Alasco in the play of "Rose of Arragon." A Tennessee gale carried a baby half a mile and left it snoozing in a lofty tree-top. If you don't believe it go down and inquire. Mrs. William Stamps, sister of Jefferson Jef-ferson Davis, died at U'oodville.Miss., j recently. Mr. Davis is now the only survivor of the family. The marriage of Mr. Henry Clews, i New York Danker, to Miss Lucy Washington, wilt be solemnized in a few days at lveokuk,Ia. - The Enquirer says thatHaller don't believe in primogeniture and i entail. No. He believes in primeoldgin and cocktail. Coiumlus Journal. Minister Bancroft intends to leave his post in Berlin in July. He will return to this country and reside in Washington, where he has just bought a house. It is stated that Colonel Gordon, who has accepted from the Khedive the leadership ol'ia scientific expedition into Upper Egypt, is furnished by His , Highness with a credit ol 100,000. The Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, lying across the middle of the State, contain some 12,000 or 15,000 square miles, or about one-thirdaof the State, and include about twenty counties. coun-ties. Edwin L. Davenport has retired from the managementof the Chestnut Street Theater, PhiLulelphia, and . thus one of the bpst actors living is set free to follow his natural vocation in comparative peace of mind. Hon. John R, Lynch, colored, is the youngest man in the United States House of Representatives. He was a , slave, without education, at Natchez, until the Lnion army entered that town. He is but twenty-six years old. The last speech Caleb Cushing made in Boston was at the banquet given to Mr. Buxiniginneand the Chinese Chi-nese Embassy. On that occasion the : Ciiinese Ambassador spoke in .broken i English and Mr. Cushing in broken i China. |