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Show IXKL1NGS. In Beven years Rome has run up a debt of 75,000,000 of francs. The greenback vote of the state ol Maine at the late election reached 3,000, or about 3 per cent of the total vote. In Paris, when they want to say thai a woman is charmingly plump, they obterve that her corsets are well filled. It taa:e all the enjoyment out of a ttatue of uroquet to hear it called an amusement within the reach of tbe feeblest intellect." Tbe Pennsylvania railroad has adopted the sensible plan ot requiring paeaengera to leave the car by the front doors and enter by the rear. Lieuteuant Solidor Miton, who led the orchestra at the Arch Street theatre the-atre when it was first bail', is still liv-iol' liv-iol' in Philadelphia at the ripe old ago of 90 years. About this time of tbe year the man who has Bpent a hundred dollars on his garden begins to estimate his onions at two dollars each in order to make his books balance. Seaton Gales of North Carolina, a nephew uf both Messrs. Seaton and i Gales of the old National Intelli-j Intelli-j gencer, is a candidate for doorkeeper j ol the house of representatives. ! A few months ago St. Louis rejoiced re-joiced in the possession of a woman who presented her husband with our children at one birth. All of the ! quartet, except one boy, have died. 1 The celebrated prison of Sainte-Piagie, Sainte-Piagie, Paris, where bo many distinguished dis-tinguished persons have been incarcerated incar-cerated during the last thirty years for political ofJences, is to be destroyed. de-stroyed. The war in Cuba has cost the Spanish Span-ish government 16,146,250 for the transportation of troops across the water. The war began in 1868, and the insurgents have had the best of it all along. A vessel left a Scotch port recently with 500 hogsheads of wine on board. It is intended to take a twelve months' voyage, the object being to improve the wine by a passage through the tropics. Robert L. Espy, a Conoecticut wife murderer, attempted to kill himself by cutting his throat la-t week, but did not Buccecd. In a letter written before he cut himself, he attributed all his miseries to rum. Three Chicago men have had a small yacht built, in which they pro pose to make a trip to Florida in October, going by the Illinois and Michigan canal, Illinois river, Mississippi Mis-sissippi river and the gulf. The Washington Star says: A private pri-vate letter from distinguished sources, recently received in this city from Rome, confirms the report of the failure of tbe pope's health, and says he is not expected to live till November. Novem-ber. President Clark of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts State Agricultural college, who recently returned from Japan, says: "The Japanese are a people able and willing to do right. I never saw a quarrel in Japan, and never saw or beard of a Japanese student in America or Japan accused of immorality." immor-ality." The insurance commissioner of Massachusetts in his report says that the expenses ol the thirty-four companies com-panies doing business in that state in 1S7G were "nearly $12,000,000, or more than half the entire amount paid for death losses." This he says is "all wrong ;" adding, "No business busi-ness can Sourish UDder Buch a burden." bur-den." A mineral hat, been found io Kern ' county, Cal., which is puzzling the geologists, no one knowing what to call it. It h opaque; in color, tin white; lustre, metallic; laminated; soft; yields to the finger nail; leaves a strtak the color of amalgam on the back of looking glassed; it is unchanged un-changed by a heat which reduces a Hungarian crucible; is perfectly insoluble in-soluble in nitric or muriatic acids or any ol their combinations, and has a specific gravity about cqial to that of mispickel. |