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Show VARIOl'S ITEMS. Dr. Paine Wlievea that bronchi tU is caused by parasites. Look out fer the domestic tiger. Aq Edglibhi coroner's jury has juat found that a babj was killed by a hungry cat. 5 hack-Nasty James and Scar Faced Charles, the remnants of the Modoc tribe, are at the Pacific hotel, St. Joseph, Mo. We consume annually, according to treasury statistics, 210,000,000 pounds of coffee and only 00,000,000 i pounds ol tea. The New York Prison Association last year procured employment for 900 discharged prisoners who were desirous of reforming The Toledo board ol education has, by a vote of nix to two, indefinitely postponed a resolution te exclude the Bible lrom the public schools. A Philadelphia broker courted a young lady for six years, and was too bashful to ask for her hand until her brother horse-whiDDed him into it. The approaching marriage of a daughter of Charles Dickens is announced an-nounced in the London papers. She is a widuw of a brother of Wilkie Collins. Currency is now worth about eighty-seven eighty-seven cents on the dollar, against about eighty-nine cents prior to the Emwuge of the so-called resumption tw a few weeks ago. The election of Mr. Dawes as U. S. senator, to succeed Charles Sumner, is regarded as more as a triumph ot the manufacturers than a triumph of the republican party. A prominent lawyer in Louisville has been severely poisoned by sleeping sleep-ing in a room tho walls of which were covered with paper which contained a large quantity of arsenic. At Indianapolis, the other day, a man's family quarrelled so fiercely over the will that he was about to Bign, as he lay on his death-bed, that the police had to interfere to restore peace. The New York Post suggests that it is likely to become a matter of borne interest, before July 4, 1S7G, to know the precise hour and minute when the Declaration of Independence was signed. The Boston Jferald is making a fuss because, while there are hundreds of womon oat of employment in that city, two hundred men are employed to run sowing machines in the house ot correction at South Boston. A Boston merchant, who some twenty-five years ago, sold two hundred hun-dred dozen woollen hose to a trader who shortly thereafter failed, was agreeably surprised the other day at receiving $1,300 in gold to liquidate " that old time debt." A Boston party just returned from French Guiana report the gold fields of that country fully as rich as the early alluvial digtrings in California, although they have been as yet but little prospeoted. It is said there is I iiuw uipuneu irom cayenne alone half a million dollars' worth of gold a month. |