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Show VARIETIES. A marble monument, inscribed Our Pet." baa been erected over a loodle dog's grave in Windsor, Conn. Those who bought slock in the Philadelphia Centennial show will ;et back only $1.75 on each share :oatiug $10. Ttey are still b-irine in that arte-iian arte-iian well in Chailueton, S. C , and iiave reached a depth of 1,585 feet, but fouud no water. The estimated cost of rebuilding the Hotel de Ville, destroyed by tho Paris commune in 1871, was 16.000, 000 francs. It now appears that an addiiioual sum of 5.000.00U will be needed. Texas is so anxious to secure t migration mi-gration that she iB virtually giving away her publio lands. The head of a family can got 160 acrej lor the expense ex-pense of the survey and patent, which is together about $15. The German government has kept two prieste in prison for eleven mouths forrefuaing to "give away" the Becret administrator of their diocese, dio-cese, and has now, as they persistently refuse to tell, released them. 8everl of the ladies (all Proteataut) ! who were pupils at the Ursuline con-1 vent at Homerviile when it waB hurned by the mob ou the night of August 11th, 1834, propose to have a reunion in Cambridge, where many of them live, The Indian squaw, Eliza Smith, known as Cherokee Lizo, who ahot a white man out in Dakota over a year ago, completed her aentenca (ono 'year at Fort Madison, Iowa.) laBt week, aud has gone back to her wild forest life. I Count Moltke recently said in reply to a question: "The Russians will i be victorious, ouly their leader must not lack the four G'a which every general require? geld, geduld, genie, und gluck (money, patienct, genius jand good luck). I Jack Grant, a horse-thief, was shot and killed hy a BheriB'a posse near Sherman, Texas, 1 ant week. He waa ! caught in the act, ordered to halt and surrender, fired upon tbe aherifi and several others, was fired upon by them in return, and killed. Ex -Governor Hendricks has written to a friend in Indianapolis that Pari "is not so great a city as London, buk it is more beautiful than you can conceive con-ceive of," and that "the objecta of iuterPBt are ao numerous that it ia a great undertaking to visit them." In the Mount Auburn cemetery, , Boston, is a lot containing five Btonea, one at each corner and one in the 'centre. The latter 13 inscribed "Our Husband, "and the others respectively ,. bear "My I Wife," "My II Wife," ."My III Wife," and "My IV Wife." At a recent temperance meeting in New York city Mr. Thomas Lee aaid he hoped that all present would imitate imi-tate the firmness of Stonewall Jackson, Jack-son, who, when asked why he did not take a stimulant, said : "I love liquor as I love my life, but I dare not driuk it." Professor Richard A. Proctor will contribute a remarkable bit of star history to the St. Nicholas, including maps of the "Dipper," ati it looked to pre-Adamitu obsnrvera. supposing they were auch, 100,000 years ago, and aa it will look lo our great, great, etc., grandchildren 100,000 yeare hence. The "Dipper," ao cording to hia view, will soon be twisted out of shape, as two of the stars have motions quite independent ol tht other five stars, which travel in a group. |