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Show VARIETIES. They don't call it Sorting now, hut hclerophomiziog. In London 102 new schools have been recently opened with accommodations accommo-dations for 101,000 children. 1 A collection of poems, essays and speeches by Oscar II, King of Swedon, id about to be published ia London. , Foster, the medium, declares that on one occasion when ho was paying the piano "an eye-ball ran along the keys." It secma that Lord LvLton left still another novel in manuscript, not quite finished, which his son ia editing edit-ing for publication. Mr. Sankoy, on Tuesday, stopped into a well-known restaurant and drank a glass of beer at least the Sun says he did. What of ill 1 Another "brilliant wedding." The young man with a flower on hid coat is to marry the young woman with the habit of saying, "The idc yah." The discovery laBt month of a new metal was announced. It is called "Gallium," -in honor of France. It was found by spectrum analyaiB in zinc. ' Jim Fisk'a father has just invented a patent harness, containing a very ingenious arrangement whereby the pulling of a string instantly frees the horse from, the vehicle. While pursuing an old working at the iron mines at Dean Forest, .England, .Eng-land, an oak shovel of Danish origin, and at least 740 years old, was found in excollent preservation. Moody and Sankey have appointed the 12th of this mouth as a day of fasting and prayer. While they are about it, can't they also ordor a holiday holi-day for newspaper offices? 1 If ladies of the period are as just as they are beautiful thoy will contt i-qute i-qute something to a monumont for King Canute. He was the person who originally ordered the tide back. Wong Ching Foo, a learned Chinese lecturer, is to hold a public discussion til. -LUlItJ XJ.ULI It', BUULI, Willi U XlupLIBb clergyman, on the relative merits of the religions of Jesus Christ and Confucius. Con-fucius. The large man in theblack hat who goes into offices and asks for a pencil and a slip of paper to write a few words, and thon carries ofi the pencil he will never to to heaven. 6'our-ier 6'our-ier Journal. A sweet little boy, only eight years old bless his little heart ! walked into the scene of a teachers' examination examina-tion at Oswego, last week, and bawled out: "Annie, your feller is down to the house!" TheJEastern railroad company was mulcted $71-1 damages in Portland, Me., Monday, for refusing to receive tickets issued for passage in the opposite oppo-site direction to that in which tho passenger was traveling. During the last fiscal year 3,610,707 letters found their way to the dead letter office, and the total amount of drafts, checks and money contained in them amounted to about $3,500,-000. $3,500,-000. All of this but $400,000 has, been reftorod to the owners. j |