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Show ISKL1XGS. Laborers in (Quebec get fifty cents a day. Walt Whitman has experienced a change of hat. There are fill) convicts in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. l'uiladelphia makes over 1,000 -0U0 worth of wall paper annually. Tliomaa Thumb, Esq., has bought a earner lot in Middleboro, Conn. Edwin Month siyd he won't leave the-country nor slop playing till his creditors have been paid. There are -HX) bootMacks in London, Lon-don, and last year they contributed ".0(K to build a "Bootblack's Home," The only hotel in London kept on tho American plan made a dividend last year of seventeen and 0110 half per cent.- Bergh's eflbrts to put down pigeon-shooting pigeon-shooting matches have been at last crowned with success. Tho sport has been declared illegal. There wcro forty-Jivo galloiiB of writing fluid used in Congress lust session. This was only writing fluid, mind yon; there were other kinds that wcro used, of course. Tho Sultan of Turkey is of full, stout ligure, and wears a plain blue suit, with tho inevitable scarlet fez. "Vice," says a writer, "has not blighted this man's iiico, or even made it unkindly." Vasquez, the California bandit, will (Ymfcr a reward of $15,000 by allowing allow-ing his pursuers to capture him. He's ja very wicked old pirate, and lives in I constant fear that he may bo made to do so benevolent an act. One of these fine days we shall hear that tho body of Tli. Nast, riddled with bullets, has been suspended from 'a high tree out west. Ho has been illustrating the crimes of tho Missouri bandits before a St. Louis audience. I A prayer meeting recently conducted conduct-ed in London by U-v. Newman Hall was opened by the organist with lively selections from "La Eiilo do Madame Angot," and the reporter says the conspirator's chorus "rolled through the large chapel with wonderlul c fleet." Chicago has a redeeming feature. She has started a Sunday afternoon lecture society, it is the intention to furnish a series of lectures or literary entertainments on .Sunday afternoons to tbo poorer classes of the city at such rc.iuced charge that all may attend. The Faltrnum, a wine of which men hail hardly heard the name except ex-cept in reading Horace, now stands at the head of all national wines in the list of the best hotels in Iiome and throughout Italv, and is charged higher than the beet bottles of Piedmont Pied-mont or Tuscany. Tho Chicago Timrs suggests a way in which money may be made plenty and "cheap"' without the expense of printing. Congress has only to enact thai all Confederate notes, now outstanding, out-standing, shall be legal tenders, and receivable for all taxes anil all dues to the United Statu. The following anecdote is related of Shirley Brooks, tho late editor of the London I'mf-ir. Some years ago a fellow-journalist suddenly dial; Shirley took his old comrade's work, in addition addi-tion to his own, fur a year, in order that the widow might receive that year's salary. It w;is a noble subscription sub-scription in her behalf. Ono of the first journal i.-ts who indulged, in-dulged, in this country, in the viceot lecturing, was the late .lames Gordon Bennett. Nearly fifty years ago, while he was trying to make a living by various sliilLs, such as writing and teaching, he delivered a course of lectures lec-tures on political economy, in the Old Dutch Church, then standing in Ann afreet. New York. His etlorts were not appreciated. |