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Show INKLINGS. By eh vir.fr ?1 u week a Hertford I wolu-u id wurih nearly $7,000. On mi ii venire seventeen infuuts . are accidentally suffocated every week -j in London. i Robert Dale Owen's favorite sonc " Do they teli me thou art dead, Katie, Ka-tie, darling?" Gerrit Smith's property is estimated at $1,200.0(0. Ho gave, away t lint lamoLint during his lilo. A Tew Orleans rut walks the telegraph tele-graph wires in onier to get the news lot" the-price of cheese in advance. The Xew York -Vail alludes to t Tweed aa " a man who can bring in- f to court ten high-priced lawyers." , Naturalli' enough, there is some difliculiy about getting the will of Tom Collins admitted to probate in ( San Francisco. The Stiturtiat Review tern.13 the falsifying faci'ity of certain Kntlish and American journals " magnificent embroideries of fiction upon tact." A Rochester, X. H., man recently jiriftde a fever of some practical use to ! the world. He tooic thirteen eggs to bed with him and batched nine chickens. New Hampshire has a ninety-four year old justice of the peace, who had his commission renewed last week. His first commission bears the date of 1S1G. Bones of Robert Bruce were quoted in Edinburgh at 2 10s. apiece, which is not much of a bonus considering the length of time they've been accumulating ac-cumulating interest. A Birmingham paper publishes a very humble apology for having, ia one of ite reports, described a speaker at a public meeting as a shoemaker, instead of a manufacturer. There are seventy-five thousand persons out of employment in Massa-1 chusetts who don't take any pride in 1 Plymouth Rock, and wouldn't care if it were broken up into Binkers to drown cats with. Brooklyn Argus. A break fast table conversation . Smith: " Ain't John late in bringing the mail, this morning ?" Jones: " I gues there is something on the postal cards that he don't understand. He'u probably reading them over twice !" King Kalakaua, while in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, is related to have found a little girl in the corridor of his hotel, and taking the cliild up inbisarms, asked it for a kiss. " Yeth, air, if you won't eat me," was the trembling re-ply. re-ply. In China, when the population of a district becomes two redundant, twenty thousand men are Bet to work to make a canal through some extensive ex-tensive marshes, and seven thousand of them die before the job is completed, com-pleted, Mrs. Slokrs does not weep because her husband is in prison, but dreesea high and is merry. She i8 one of the most showy women in New York, and it is likely that E l has got rid of her cheaply, even at tho price ol a few years in the penitentiary. |