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Show IMQJXGS. North Onroliiia cluinia tbnt she hiw inojtliaiietiLdc tiores of iron ore. Or. Peters, of Hamilton College, has got hia eye ou another planet. An Alabama negro has plowed tip n chest conUining $'.Kl,tKH) worth of gold and si Ivor. An onthiisin.Mic Virginian claims to have invented ivn engine that can climb tip hill just as as it can slide down. The woathrr has not been very cold lately, but tttill tho morning salutations saluta-tions aro oxclinngcd through stubbed ub doses. Juat aa the temporal ice wave ip pniyml'into motion eomea tho disheartening dis-heartening news ot" a failure of the opium supply. It is so cold in aoino parts of Vermont Ver-mont tht whisky baa to be chopped out of the barrels with a hatchet. Consequently hatchets have"riz." Iowa raised more wheat in 1S73 than any other State in tho Union. She did tho same thing in 1872. In the item ot corn she is only second to Illinois. A lady who lately attonded a bal where 1'hil Sheridan was " shininji star," gives it as her opinion tha1 Phil is not too etd to get married, bu! too red in the face. The shareholders of a company ii England, who paid the "inventor' of a new ' air gas" $ VJO,000 for their supposed diseoverv, now tind that tin The window-glaxs factories of Pitta-! Pitta-! burg have been idle wnoa July, owing t disputes between the proprietor and their workmen about wag.es. It is not expected that work will be re-sumevl re-sumevl until next fail. Statistic show that the larceat portion por-tion of crime in England U committed commit-ted by young persons. It is one of the glories of dear old Kngjand that paternal example there so genernl- ly respected. I Contributions for less than five dol-1 dol-1 lans are looked uxm with contempt by Washington churches. iJctruii . Free Press. Salvation is high-priced at the Cap-, Cap-, ital, becauso it is so very scarce. i Mr. Bonner has paid $-10,000 fur a farm near Tarn" town, on 4 which to i keep his horses. Then; is a professional profes-sional pauper in this city who wants to resign and become one ol Mr. Bonner's Bon-ner's horses. Hrouklyn Ar.jus. An enthusiastic African, who had " spent de winter in Jam.tka," found it an earthly paradise. He caid ho could " lie aled, and, putting hia arm outdc windy, pick oranges, pineapple, pine-apple, and Jainaky rum right oil" do trees. ' ' LAmartinc was asked by a friend if he did not sjund loo much in advertising. adver-tising. "So," was tho response, " atlvertisement are absolutely necessary. neces-sary. Even divine worship If bon L'uu) neeilato be advcrliscAl. Klse what is the mcajuiig of church bells' AVken a yotmg man sits down on i slippery pavement, with such violence aa to haglly escape swallowing thi roof of hia mntith, there is nothin( that will so powerfully prompt him u give indication of having done it or purtH.ee, as the salisfacliun drpictei in tiie aweel face at tho window op-Iito. op-Iito. A Chicago jiaper circulates the dreadful minor "' tbat a M-ond (il-niure (il-niure will gather all the singing socie-liu) socie-liu) and brass baitdj in tne tnirty-seven tnirty-seven SUit.s, ami concentrate them in Philadelphia in l7ti, with intent to unite them in one harmonious howl. Is it trr Him that we have sullen-U KX.) years of frce-d frce-d )iu '" |