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Show JlLSCELLAXEOrS. The steamship Ciiy of Peking U provided with duplicates of all her machinery. Over $0,000,000 worth of property has been buried in thel American lakes since the introduction of Bteim. Said a Ft. Louis judge to Patrick McCue, "If you come here again I'll McCuc work on the rocks six; months." j A breast-pin was found under a; house recently demolished in Logan j county.Ky., where it. had lain seventy-nix seventy-nix years. An enormous chew the French and Austrian governments have contracted con-tracted for $14,000,000 worth ol Virginia- tobacco. . Hon. Benjamin Ste. Marie, who captured John H. Surratt, died suddenly sud-denly in the s'reet in Philadelphia on Tuesday night last. Randolph, Mass., has a shoestring manufactory which turns out annually annu-ally $75,000 worth of those useful but not very costly articles. Young Sartoris paid "Boquet Johnny" $700 for the much-admired stand of flowers that graced the wedding wed-ding of Miss Nellie Grant. A benevolent gentleman at Nashville Nash-ville gave an indigent family two dollars, dol-lars, and the same evening met them all returning frum the circus. A nine year old girl was outraged at a Virginia camp-meeting lately within a few paces of the encampment. encamp-ment. The villain was arrested. Massachusetts has 287,000 children between five and fifteen years of age. The average attendance in public schools is 202.SS5, or 70.67 per cent, of the whole. I The present favorite of the Prince of Wales is said to be the most beautiful beau-tiful woman in England a lady whose husband is well-known in matters of Spanish finance and banking. bank-ing. In order to settle the great topic as to who shall stand on the top of the Vendome column, thi Charwari proposes pro-poses that the members ol the assembly assem-bly shall take turns and each Btand there twenty-four hours at a time. Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears, agent of the Peabody fund, was at a teachers' meeting in Staunton, Va., last week, and said he did not believe that mixed schools would ever be enforced. en-forced. He did not believe it could be done. The plans of the railway which is to ascend Mount Vesuvius are now complete. The route will be lti.l miles in length. The grades are 20 and 35 feet in the hundred, and the road terminates at a few leet from the the crater. The Pueblo Indian Roman Catholic Catho-lic converts are said to adore the moon to secure a good harvest. They have been known to flagellate an image of the Virgin Mary because she failed to bring rain when they had prayed for it. A Irish girl took the valuable prize, recently offered by Mrs. Ottendorfer, wife of the editor of the New York StaaU-Zeitttng, to the girl in the pub-lio pub-lio schools who should make the most progress in the study of the German language during the term. . General Belknap has recently returned re-turned to Jeflerson Davis his letters and private papersjwhich were cap tured with him in 1S65. A ring, several boxes of cigars, underwear, and linen Bhirts were also includec with the returned articles. The recent discovery of an iroc mine in Washington street, New York, turned out to have arisen from the fact of a workman digging iup i mixture of iron slag and earth at a spot where a lot of iron slag had boen deposited thirty years ago. |