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Show ALL SORTS, I Dealers in San Francisco complain of the scarcity of five cent coin. A new YorVdoctor figures it out that an average woman will hhed a barrel of tan in forty years. Less than 2,000,000 females in the United Suits belonc, to the producing class. Japan lutf S,iO0,0O0. . More dreadful cojiduct from a parson, par-son, and an old one, too. He calls a sweet abler a " female rake.'' Triplets occurred in three families in a Minnesota town last week, notwithstanding not-withstanding the grasshoppers. About half of the male population ! ; of Bismarck, Dakota, are ready, or ! preparing to go U the Black Hills. j The Haltiniorean contains Bix woodcuts wood-cuts of Mr. Beecher's face, labelling the whole, "Tho Beecher Commit tee." " . There ia a man at Freehold, X. J., aged sixty -five years, who baa never travelled in a railroad car or on a steamboat. ... Mr. Stanton, an Englishman, rode from Bath to London on his bicycle, a distance of 10G miles, in eight hours and a half. " Japan has 7,000,000 less population than the United States, and 8,000,000 more persons over forty years ot age than we have. The London critics say that those Harnerican hactors karn'tpwonounce HingliBh, you kn,ow, to save their hize, 'ng 'em ! The total amount of foreign national nation-al securities subscribed for and ciealtin in London, reaches in the aggregate 15,000,000,000. ' The French government, in spite of its embarrassments, voted a subsidy subsi-dy oi 1,604,000 francs, about $320,-S00, $320,-S00, to the theatres. l At Richmond, near London, the ants, red and black, and without wings, have suddenly assumed the character qf a plague. A " Baptist' liquor saloon" has been discovered in Boston. Its name is referred to the religious preferences of the owner and lessee. ; Franklin county, Kansas, reports a surplus of 150,000 bushels of wheat. The entire crop of the htato is seL down at 3,000,000 buahela. " Lord, what a cow !" was the approving ap-proving remark of a teetotal judge of Vermont, after swallowing a potent punch which had been offered to him as a glass of milk. The Italian government proposes, if Garibaldi will consent, to lay a tele graph cable to .Caprera and keep an operator permanently on duty there at the General's service. - The Episcopalian Diocesan Convention Con-vention of Colorado, at its late session discussed the question of civilizing and christianizing the Utes and Co-manches Co-manches of that Territory. Mr. John Bull is bent on grumbling," grumb-ling," He dosep't like it that the Queen fails to spend anything, and is equally annoyed because her royal son," the heir .apparent, has rim through $17,000,000 since he came tpf age, and now owes about a million . niore. , . . , . An inquisitive chap stepped into a marble shop the other day where Smith was about completing the sculpture of a lamb. " Did . you cut out that animal ?" asked the interrogation interro-gation point. "Oh, no," said Smith, "the lamb haa been here all the time. I only took the marble from around him that's all." |