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Show " Aii old biindlo uteci " in what Ben Butler calls M..WC3. It in ruinoml thuHirrt Hivrte ia in f danger of loss of siglit. , Two headii are better than one i ewpeeially in a barrel. I The Chicago. Tiitn-t hcadu an article ' " A iiugguttiou to the Devil," and , makes tho HUgne.stioii with the famili- i arity of mi olil fiifiid. Charleb biiiiiiiei' was iirnt elected . Senator mi the one 'hundred and : twentieth ballot. JHs sueoensnr was ; chosen on the thirty-third. A vory old jjontlcmau in Calhoun County, III., (who frared a serenade from tho Uiyn, was recently rnarrietl' privately in the woody. i A Colquitt, Georgia, minister having" hav-ing" become a father tho thirty -necond lime, a local paper suggeits that the boy bo named " Call ltuit." A carman is an individual wh;i wants you to hare your furniture all ready to load at 7 a. m., and comes around in tho afternoon to if you havo done it. The editor of tlie Leavenworth Daily Anus remarks in tlie obituary of his paper: " We went into tlie buainw-K determined to run it or bust. We have busted." A Nova Scotia vesnul recently arrived ar-rived t Cloueester, manned by a father, eon of fifteen years, and -two daughters betvvuen Jit teen and twenty years, who compoucd tho whole crew. A San Francisco paper mentions a bank in that city which in live years has repaid in dividends to the original stockholders the value of their stock, and has a cash surplus of SoO.OOO. The London Athaaum is severe upon Miss Dickons' novel, " The iiiil Wheel," and recommends to tho author a course of grammar and English Eng-lish reading. It says tlie book abounds in slang, rhapsody and ulgarity. "Tapc-wotm Charliy" aud "Appetite "Ap-petite Jim" are the cognomens given a couple of hotel bummers who had cheated their landlord in Colorado. On being arrested and asked to hhow visible means of support each drew out a big roll of greenbacks. The niobt remarkable icrobatic feats over seen are said to be performed by a black spider monkey in the Central I l'ark collection at "ew York. He I uses his long tail ay a fifth limb, which I gives him immense advantage over I human aerubats. A monster gun i to be conlruc'-ul at the Woolwich Aieonal, England. It will weigh eighty-one Unw, and be fclxteen inches in diantcUr. The great coil for this new cannon will be welded early in Mliv, by the great t?tram-hammer of the arson... In timCvi they used to IkjU Iij.iil-I Iij.iil-I meis to raise bliau is wdii, lui such j is the progress in kiKwli5.1;e that nov-i nov-i a-days, any little live-year old boy can (raise all tlie blisters lie wants with a hammer, without taking the trouble; ti have it l-oili d. ' Ti e W.-!ne.i! .y CJub. organi Jmjtj . 1777. is th'j oMrvt club now i-xisline in Bi-toti. Its mml-rrs have bron among il.o leading div;n., lawvers. merelnnu, and p.iysii-i.iii in the village, town ami eity. A p quarter has lv'ong"U to each pro- : (ess ion. I Tin! lrwveiniiK'1,1 of CiuaLeniid:. has isaiu'vl a d-xree prohibiting priests and clergymen from wearing the usual distinctive dnucs of long pI.es, etc., except wln.-u iv y are engaged in . the pt rltirnmnce of their sucrtsii duties, under a line of from leu to tilly dol- ; lars. ; The Indianapiilis S.-ufinct remark.-: "Among all the notes nnd comments of admiration for the 'Dreaming UI.-.U-I I .... -(.t.-j rerneml-er that Cadnv.i's (irat wurk of urt was a lion in bmt'T. It was executed exe-cuted f(r the Lvlilc of a nobU ni.iu, in Jwhi.'se iicighiH.rhr"! tlie great M-nlp- . tor, then a lad, liv. 1." |