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Show ALL SORTS. The Russian army numbers 2.900,-000 2.900,-000 men, and includes 200,000 Cossacks. Cos-sacks. Ex-Sen a tor Jam en A. Nye is now an inmate of the Bloomingdale insane in-sane asylum. Captain Boy ton is coming to America Ameri-ca next month. He won't awim all the way, quite. It will cost a million and a quarter j of dollars for the Prince of '-Vales' excursion to India There are twenty-throe happy men in this world. They are monks in a Turkish monastery, who have not seen a woman Bince infancy. Since the ice has disappeared from Great South Bay, L, I., it is found that about half the oysters left on the beds during the winter are dead. It is remaiked as a curious circumstance circum-stance that-Mr. Bteeher should not have shown conscientious scruples about kissing anything but the bible. Being ai-ked what made him so dirty, an unwashed street Arab's reply was: "I w.h made, as they tell me, of dust, and I suppose it works out." A Texas woman has learned to use the lasso so deftly that she can stand in the door and haul the hat off the lightning-rod peddler while he is un-lastening un-lastening the gate. An aged negro nurse and a cook, formerly slave's of the Polk family, were present at Mrs. Leonid us Polk's funeral the other day. They came from a distance to attend it. The legislature of Texas has granted an extension of time to the Texas and Pacific railway company, giving until the 1st of January for the completion com-pletion of the road to Fort Worth. The eastern papers are filled with woodcuts of SaraMPl Adam- and John Hancock. It makes one rejoice to think that thee patriots had something some-thing besieles their li)ks to rccom- . mend them. Nevada brides won't stand much foolishness at a wedding. Recently one of them, while going up the aisle of the church, slopped short and kicked all the skin ofl the shins of a groomsman who trexl on her trail. It iB calculated that in this country fifty men die daily from natural causes, who by good rights ought to be hung. The author of the calculation calcula-tion is believed to be the proprietor of a rope walk. Brooklyn Argus. It's pooty soon .bock beer lime pgiu, uud den we got some fun mit de boys, ain't it? How more you drink ol dot peer, how petter you feel somed iincs und somcdimes you feel a little diferant; You know eggsactly how dot is myself. The following suggestion has been made to the commissioners ot Eden park, at Cincinnati: "First, there, some fig trees must be planted. Second, you must have a representation representa-tion of Adam and Eve, and it is presumed pre-sumed they will fill the rest of the bill." Revivalist Hammond says that the San Francisco newspaper reports of j his eflbrta in behalf of Bix-year-old . sinners in that city have lost him $5,000. Several eastern religious ( organizations have refused to employ ' him, in cousequence of those pubh-' pubh-' cations. "I should think jou would be i ashamed to pilch into that little boy," said a pedestrian, as he caught a big I bootblack cuffing a small newsboy. " Ye would, hey?" sneereel the lad, as he gave Ins nose a wipe, "D'ye think I'd go for a big boy and get all pounded up ?" |