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Show 'ALL SORTS. A Teian legislator proposes to assign as-sign to Lynch law a recognized place in the criminal code. Four Pittsburg girls are trainirg tor a public foot race, to cojue ofl" nt: Capo May this summer. One hundred Memphiaus invested $1,000 in the LuiiUville Library Lottery, Lot-tery, and got each one cent and nine mills in return. The fences of the United States are said to be worth $1,SOO,000, and, it Sb added, that it costs S,000,000 annually an-nually to keep them in repair. An English paper says, expel from the British parliament every member who bought votes to get there, and there would not be a quorum left. A bill has passed the Benf-te of the Pennsylvania legislature for the establishment es-tablishment of a nautical school on shipboard at the port of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams are to make a brief trip through the New England states, giving sixteen performances, per-formances, and, it is stated, receiving $10,000. The Czar of Russia has just sanctioned sanc-tioned a new ministerial plan for extending railroads in his dominions, which provides for the immediate construction of over 5,000 miles of additional roads. The population of Denmark and her possessions in 1S74 was 2,003,-200, 2,003,-200, an increase since 1S70 of not quite one hundred thousand. Of this number, 1.3S4.G00 belong to Denmark, Den-mark, 71,100 to Iceland, 37,700 to the Danish Antilles, and 9.S00 to Greenland. It has been ruled by the commissioner commis-sioner of public lands that valuable deposits of fire clay may be entered and patented under the mining act. A nomesteaa party wnose entry is canceled in part for conflict, may retain re-tain the remainder, and amend his entry to embrace a contiguous vacant tract. A friend of Tilton thinks it unfair that Beecher should be allowed to create sympathy for himself by addressing ad-dressing the public from the Plymouth Plym-outh pulpit every Sunday, and proposes pro-poses to hire the New York Academy of Music lor the purpose ol "giving the young man a chance " to go and do likewise in the matter of sympathy making. Omaha has a route of its own to the Black Hills via Omaha and Northwestern and Fremont Valley railroads, thence overland, so to speak, to the new Eldorado. Enterprising En-terprising citizens of Omaha are organizing or-ganizing transportation companies and projecting staye routes and lines, that promise great inducements to gold-hunters. There are 4,000,000 cats in Great Britain, and it is estimated that each cat kills an average of twenty mice or rats every year. It is estimated further that every rat or mouse, if it lived, would injure property to the estent of 1 sterling. If all this is true, pussy saves to that country every year $400,000,000, and she might pay off the national debt if she chose. Some time ago, when money was less plenty than at present, a Boston merchant subscribed five hundred dollars to a theological enterprise, and paid two hundred dollars of the amount at the time. Recently, finding find-ing it convenient, he forwarded the remaining three hundred. By return mail he received a letter of acknowledgement, acknowl-edgement, and a request for nineteen dollars and some odd cents, interest on the three hundred dollars from the date of the original subscription. |