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Show VARIETIES. i Tho King of Bavaria proposes to is- sue paper iuodcv. j The new $,000,aX) Boston post-oflice post-oflice ia now occupied. The Trince of Wales is called "a nipping and eager heir." The Massachusetts State prison was never so lull as at present. Tripe is recommended for persons engaged in active, nervous pursuits. Boston spends over $30,000 a year in teaching drawing in her public schools. When a person has to stand up in a Piiris horse-air, no tttro is collected by the driver. A bill is before the Vermont Legis- ficient avuse for divorce. During the first year of their introduction in-troduction into this country, 112,043,-500 112,043,-500 postal cards have been used. " It is a noble sight to see a murderer mur-derer dangling in the air," preached the Kcv. Dr. Junkin of Frankfort, A Milwaukee man committed suicide sui-cide as soon as he had accumulated $2,000. Three widows were trying to marry him. j The sheep owners of Arizona are . removing their Hocks to New Mexico, to get rid of paying county and territorial ter-ritorial taxes. A New York astrologer predicts that President Grant will be impeached im-peached or die before completing his term of office. i A Tennessee tailor has a ehop on wheels. He only stiys in a village long enough to clothe tho people, and then jogs along. Pike, the Massachusetts burglar, was foolish enough to record his crime in a diary, and now the autobiography auto-biography is evidence against him. A Belgian has started an egg farm near Marietta, Ga. He has eight hundred hens and fifty cocks. The business now yields 27,000 egga and 2,122 chickens per annum. The cottage and grounds once the retreat ot Maximilian in Mexico are in ruins, the adherents of the new government being allowed to pillage and destroy as they choose. First wife " Dear me, Mrs. Doyle, I have heard that your husband was a spirit medium. Is it so? Second wife "Medium! Goodness, yes. Comes home drunk every night." "How much did he leave?" inquired in-quired a gentleman of a wag, on learning the death of a wealthy citizen. citi-zen. " Everything," responded the wag, " he didn't take a dollar with him." Two Detroit, philosophers recently got into a debate upon the question whether angels flew like birds, and in absence of more satisfactory evidence, evi-dence, settled the dispute by fighting it out. Cordelia Lessiur was a Lowell hero- had caught in the machinery of a mill, but in doing so her own arm was drawn in and torn oil. She died from the hurt. Miss Susan Hanson of Brookfield, X. H., whs shot and instantly killed in her house, a few evenings since, by a person who fired through a window. win-dow. Joseph Buzzell, whom she had sued for a breach of promise of marriage, mar-riage, is suspected. Two ladies caught small-pox from wearing dresses which they had hired to go to a ball in London. One died, and the other brought suit against ' the proprietor of the costume shop. The latter argues that he did not rent the disease; the ladies took it without his permission. |