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Show , ' SCRAPS. A large navigable river has been discovered iu New Guinea. General B. F. Butler has purchased a gold mine in the neighborhood of FredrickBburg, Vft. . . Darwin now says that all men were once plants. There are still a great many Bmall potatoes. 1 The yellow fever is raging in New Orleans, and about fifty per cent, of those attacked have died. The first volume of Mr. Bryant's "History of the United States" is about ready for publication. Fifteen thousand eight huudred and seventy-five Burvivora of the war of 1812 are on the pension list, Bessie Turner's new novel, " A Woman in the Case," is announced. It is a story of love and adventure. Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise visited Snow Hill, Maryland, last. week, and argued a will cas? in the court of that place. Some public-spirited residents of Chicago have arranged for a winter course of Sunday lectures at ten cents admission. . The intelligent juror in Merrimac county, N. H.t recently declared the prisoner to be not only guilty, but also guiltey, giltey and gilty. The English government has adopted adopt-ed an improved cat-o'-nine-tails.much heavier, thicker and longer than the j dort formerly employed. ! The total state funded debt of Russia Rus-sia is $1,368,900,000, and the unfunded, unfund-ed, $781,095,000, the largest part ol which latter bears no interest. F. C, a candid !mau, advertises as follows in the Chicago Matrimonial Bazar: "I want a wile that has got the stamps; looks and age no object." Mrs. Eapp, convicted in St. PjuI of participation in a murder, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life, twelve days in each year to bo spent in a dark cell. The total vote in Arapahoe county (Denver) for members of the constitutional consti-tutional convention waa 2,231, of which tho democratic candidates received from 700 to 800. A Prussian in Dusseldorf lately killed hie wife and daughter for ridiculing ridi-culing his brilliant red hair, and his action is likely to inaugurate a general gen-eral revolt of red-headed men. A cousin of John C. 'Breckinridge, Col. Win. C. P. Breckinridge, who is said to be not inferior to John C, ib mentioned lor the Senate in Kentucky Ken-tucky as a successor of Stevenson. The Rev. Mr. Kalloch of California Califor-nia thinks Hint thero is no more sin in going to the theatre than in going to a church festival, but that young men Bbould not go to either when their washing bills are unpaid. A man who gambles, fiamblns to win, and it he wins he is satislicd, and sees no evil in tho thing. It is only when he loses that conscience pricks him, and bis horror of tho crime loads him to telltbe police of it. H. M. Turner, of Savannah, has a plan for establishing "a negro nationality nation-ality somewhere in Africa," and all he lacks is fivo million of dollars to carry it out, Ho thinks that Astor and Vanderbilt ought to furnish tho money. Four more crosses of tho Logion of Honor have been awarded for acta of courage in saving lives during the in-uudations'in in-uudations'in the south of France. Among the recipients of this distinction distinc-tion are a fisherman, a boatman fctid a pavior, . The foundation of tho Sliakespoaro memorial theatro at fit rat ford-on-Avon will be laid April 23, 1876. Tho site ban already been secured, and the grountl is now being suitably laid out. In addition to the theatre thero will bo a public library and oxtensivo gardens. gar-dens. "I didn't steal no pound of tcrback-er," tcrback-er," said a prisoner in Springfield, Musy., just us ho was leaving court, no prool having been produced against him; "1 didn't take nioro'n a handful." "Como back," said tho juntico, "and bo fined Ion dollars. Tho court convicts you on your own confession." Kate Batoman refuses to play Queen Mary, in Tcnucyson'a drama of that name, unions tho author will expunge the line sin which tlio queen declares that she is about to become a mother; and tho poet, with more regard for his work than tlio prudery I of tho actresH, declares that lie will not expunge tlio objectionable words, |