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Show FOREIGN. IS'o Muro Pe;ice Talk. Madrid, 18. Gen. Quesada has been commanded by royal order to henceforth receive no communication from Don Carlos except an aunounce-mentrof aunounce-mentrof the unconditional submission of self and partisans. A STRANGE HUMAN CREATURE. CREA-TURE. In the Genesee county poor-house is a wretched creature whose appearance appear-ance is that of a beardless youth with the cranial formation ot an incurable incura-ble idiot, whose habiu place him on an equality with the lowest of the brute creation. His age is about 20 years, born in Genesee county. His mother previous to his birth, while present at a menagerie, waa frightened at a Polar bear, Hie result of which loft its mark upou this poor unfortu nate. No power of speech was given the infant, and not even the sense of the most ignorautof the brute species, hence it is of no use to any ouo, but was placed here and allowed to eke out a miserable cxistenco in this world. The creature's habits arc strange. It is possessed of a voracious appetite, and lias not the instinct of knowing when its nppetite is appeased, ap-peased, but will, if food be furnished it, eagerly thrust it into its mouth, and swallow until it is utterly impossible impossi-ble that its stomach could hold more. A curious feature of the creature's eating is that it was never known to chew its food, and no matter in what condition it is when placed in the mouth, it is crowded and choked into the stomach without the least particle of mastication. Another singularity is its constant uneasiness; for no matter in what position the hotly may be, it is continually swaying to and lro, reminding one at once of the peculiar nature of the savage bear as it rocks from one side of the cage to the other. It always eats its food with its hands, and sometime since it succeeded in ellecting its escape, and soon reached some woodland near by, where it waa found shortly afterward in the tree tops. Seeming to possOss the agility to climb, it was content to remain in tho woods. The creaturo is generally kept chained to the floor, and not allowed to go about the premises. It will eat anything given it, and has a peouliar relish for tobacco (not for smoking), but will Beomingly make a meal of tho strongest kind of tho weed, which it will swallow down without chewing, and never seems to feel any disagreeable effects from the samo. The peculiar swaying motion of the head has caused the sinews on the back of the neck to stand out almoBt like ropes of fJenh. This creature, crea-ture, which less resembles a hitman being than a monkey, is indeed a remarkable sight, Grand Rapids Kaylc, A Lucky Cook. Says the Omaha Bee: Honry Brost is tho namo of a young man who came into this world not rich but respectable. Had ho been endowed with any reasonable amount of filthy lucre in his youth, lie would not have been compelled to earn an honest livelihood as a cook ut the American House iu this city, im he has for some- time past. This morning us ho was scientifically turn-ing turn-ing over Home hot buckwheat cukes, ho received a loiter from Ihe postman, post-man, a fact which he did not consider ol any great importance at first, fur he deferred the opening and reading of the episllo till ho had filled his last ordor for hot cakes. Ilia surprise may bo imagined, therefore, when upon pursuing lho letter, ho learned that it was from Mwsttrs. Chatulier it Hponce, of New York, informing him that his uncle, Francois Brost, had Rapid City Traveling. The Greenwich street elevated railroad is already finished from the Battery, in New York, by way of Tenth avenue to Fiftieth street, or about five miles, and will be completed to Sixtioth street, opposite Central park, within the next fortnight. On a trial trip of a Bteam train, upon it a week ago, the cars made the four miles then completed com-pleted between the Battery and Forty-second Forty-second street in twenty-one minutes, including ten stoppages. This is I pretty fast travelling for the heart of eo populous a city as New York, and : is to bo the regular running time here-. here-. after. The steam line on Third avenue is also likely to be built at an early day. When tho poet Bung: "Thou wilt coma no more, gentle Annie," he didn't mean Anno Lizi, for she comes as regularly as the lecture season rolls around; and she is here now, telling how hard it is to be married mar-ried to the nineteenth part of a man, and even then not to be at all sure of keeping your fraction. Burlington Hawk-Eye. |