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Show IXKLIXGS. Gerritt Smith throws up his hivt for tho crusaders. Tho office ol" Admiral of tho Navy will expire with Admiral I'orter. ft is said that Mark Twain tulles of .starting a. weekly literary newspaper. Mark, don't. I An immigrant can now go by rail from New York to Chicago fur $7. Competition did it. A Chicago paper has published an article headed ''Eternal Punishment Continued." How ? "My nomination" will be the subject sub-ject ot Wbittier's next poem, thinks the -Boston Tntmlh -, What's in a name? Dr. Sexton, of New York, heads the cremation movement in that city. A Paris letter says drunkenness is getting common there. In the balmy days of the Empire they were content to get light. There are no less than (illy editors and reporters encamped at tho Bald Mountain, North Carolina, awaiting developments. Bsi-re, Mass., will celehrato its centennial cen-tennial on the 17th of June. Philadelphia Phila-delphia will have to piny second lid-die, lid-die, after all. On account of the scarcity of ice next Summer, bar-keepers will charge for the ice, and sprinkle it with liquor for nothing. The Canadians have become disgusted dis-gusted with the old English system, of voting rn-H voce, aud a movement is on foot to introduce the ballot. A public necessity A regularly organized or-ganized clearing-house, to attend to personal rumors and keep them out of tlio circle of public discussion. A museum of art, as applied to manufacturers, has just been inaugurated inaug-urated at Rome. Tho Eternal City is ca telling the infection of the Euphemism. A Southern gentleman gentle-man fpeaks of his marriage to a rich New York widow as an event "that enables him to resume tho primeval condition of his former rectitude." There's nothing like persistency, John Couch w;is married in Philadelphia Philadel-phia the other day to a girl who had refused him eighteen times. She wanted to see if be really loved her. After years of careful study anl close observation, an Iowa professor is able to announce that frogs can eec sideways, and that music lias more influence on them than this careless world has any idea of. As soon as cucumber vines begins to get up the New York 'Jimcs can doubtless increase its sulwcription list in this State, It is an excellent paper to put ovei v in?:1,, and does well under stair carpet. Detroit I'fc l'n:st. A Michigan cr-bi net maker is con-ttnieting con-ttnieting a Hccretairc which shall exhibit ex-hibit the di tic rent kinds of wood used for cabinet work, which arc grown in that Siutc. They comprise liny-three own head. This is the time when tho sodding of the front yard is in progress, and the same predatory hen that picked that yard bald last year is glancing through the fence with pretended unconcern, un-concern, and speculating as to when the new grass will he ready. A Mr. R' ibin.-on, in California, eighty yi rrs nid, became crazed with religio'is excitement, went to bod, lighted a match, aud tried to bluw himself to the other world with a can of gunpowder. Result Burnt bedclothes bed-clothes and Paradise-as remote as ever from Mr. Robinson. A correspondent writing from Rome says that an Englishman was knocked down there during the carnival for insulting the American flag. The stars and strides were hanging from ihc bali uny of Mrs. Major Goddard, aud the Englishman remarked that the nasty rag suuuid come duwn. An American w.w standing near, and the E 'gli.-mnan promptly went uown to the pavement. |