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Show INKLINGS. The SulUin of Zanzibar, who i to visit England next spring, will also go to Paris and Vienna. Foremen in some of the large lager beer breweries in Cincinnati are said to be paid $10,000 a year. A grand "Centennial Hotel" is projected tor Atlantic city, the fonu-1 dationa of.which will be laid next i fail. During 1S74 a single fruit firm iu Xew York city imported the large number of &7,2o0 bunches of bananas. ban-anas. An asylum for indigent, debilitated, debili-tated, nervous people, who are not insane, in-sane, is to be established in Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. A Newport, R.I., gentleman has invented "a self-opening cothn with alarm telegraph to guard against living liv-ing burial." The English society for the prevention preven-tion of cruelty to animals recently prosecuted the owner of a menagerie for cruelty to hyenm. : "What station do you call th.is?" said a man, as he crawled out of the debris of a railroad mash-up. "Devastation," "De-vastation," replied the urbane conductor. con-ductor. A leaden coflin, containing what has been conjectured as the remains of King Stephon, was recently found under the church of St. Alary, at Dover, England, ' Mr. Emerson says: "Poetry teachea the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, cher.ks loquacity." Joaquin Miller will please shut up. The average Bostonian still feols a pride m Plymouth Bock, but New York wants it pounded up into fragments frag-ments to drown cats with. There are dissensions in this great republic. When a Louisville dry goods Btore is robbed the proprietor pays the Courier-Journal a dollar and a half to report the item under a head like this: "Burglars of good taste." A Wisconsin editor's reason for preferring pre-ferring Mat. Carpenter to all other men: "We like the way Carpenter has of wearing his hair, and of letting his ihirt boil out between his Test ana ibis pantaloons, a feat not easily accomplished." ac-complished." In answer to the question whether Mark Twain told the truth about the Sandwich Islands, Kalakaua gave a very emphatic " No ! " and now he has civilly declined an invitation to lunch at Hartford, as the guest of Mr. Clemens. A four-year old Chicago boy, in the absence of his parents, placed some cartridges and kerosene oil on the stove. When his mother returned she found the little fellow dead with a bullet in his brain. Other Chicago infants are anxious to try the experiment experi-ment themselves. Fifty -one Philadelphians died at or beyond the age of ninety years in IS4, fuur exceeded 100 years, the oldest Margaret Flaggerty died at the age of 105 years. By tar the largest proportion of these very aged people were women, and a majority of them were of Irish birth. The King of Siam has issued an edict for the gradual abolition of white slavery m his dominions. It provides pro-vides that children born after April 12, 1S6S, of slave parents, shall become be-come free at the age of twenty-one, ind a scale of prices is filed at which ;hose undor that age may have their reedom purchase for them. The ii?hest price is, for boys aged eight fears, $19.20, and for girls, $16.18. |