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Show IXKLLXOS. I Caterpillars, buflalo-ktmU and mos- i qiiitocs aro in season aL Memphis. ' The Tichborno claimant's imprisonment impris-onment has reduced hi in to o'J2 pounds. ( A circus elephant took cold at Cincinnati Cin-cinnati tbe oilier day, and tho doctor proscribed two gallons of whisky. Tho weather has been bo disagreeable disagree-able in Louisville recently that the very cows liavo colds in their heads. Boston Post "Ditto" is the title of a new story by tho author of "Ghix's Baby." They must bo twins then. "Tlio contents lied owed the streets," sighs tho Manchester Mirror and American. It was a broken molasses hogshead. . ! The Donor ml of Maylield, Ivy., announces an-nounces tho marriage of James Leg-gett, Leg-gett, ot Buekukull, to Sallio Drinkard, of Bueksnort. A Dubuque man has asked Jor the protection of tho courts against three widows who arc trying to force him into a marriago. A youth named Herbert Brooks, the son of wealthy gentleman of South Hacking, England, was lately sent to prison for lourteen days for cruelty to a cat. Dr. W. II. Lord,ofMontpelier, Vt., who was one of the delegates to the recent Brooklyn council, has in a sermon denounced the wholo affair as a device of Bcccher's enemies. "Oh! why should the spirit ol moi-lal moi-lal be sad'" exclaims tho Milwaukee ixntinef, "when iS'cw Orleans molasses molass-es sells at fourteen cento per quart, and buckwheat is thrown ai a man in fifty pound packages." A Chicagoan broke his leg. On arrival ar-rival at the hospital some whisky was brought to rovive him. "Xot a drop," said he. "If I am to die, I will die sober." Ho was permitted to live as a dreadful example- of Hie efloelof tho temperance agitation. Iwakura is called the Bismarck of Japan, with the difference that Iwakura Iwa-kura believes in liberty of conscience. He is the real head of the empire, and is hated by the Samoural, or soldier doss, because bo has opposed their schemes ol warfare. Charlcmange'a secretary was caught by a snowstorm sparking the emperor's emper-or's daughter at midnight, and she carried him homo on her back.sojthat his footsteps should not be traced. The emperor hoard of it, and saddled him on to her for the rest of her life. General S. B. lla.eltinc, a gentleman gentle-man eighty-three years old, was elected elect-ed clerk of Berkslield, Vt., this year, for the tifiy-fourth time; in the town meeting that elected him, by a unanimous unan-imous vote, there was not a per.-on who was present when lie w-.m first chosen. An Irishman was brought before a judge on a charge of ttcaling a widow's wid-ow's pig. "Bat," e I'd tiio judge, "when you are brought face to face with the widow and the pig on tho great judgment d.iy, what account can you give of yourself.'" "Did you say ihc pig would he there, ver honor"" "To bu sure I did.'" "Well, thin, yer rivcrime, ,1'd say, 'Mrs. Muloney, there's yer pig.' " The Bhf.de Inland Ueneral Assembly has wonderfully improvi-d in nim ty lyrars, if a letter written by James M. I Varnuin to (iener.it Washington in jl7 told the truth. Varnum said that the majority of tint Assembly were li-centiotis li-centiotis NK-n, d. -ititute of education and v., id of principle. Their patn-r niuney nVMb-m. fom.dil in oppression and fraud, they were iletennined to support at any hazard. Somewhat like the (muititcs of to-dav. |