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Show VARIETIES. Hartford is said lo have nearly 100 lawyers, and work enough for about fifteen. The Philadelphia, street oar companies compa-nies havo refused to reduce the fares belon- six cents. Secretary Evarts' income from his law oraclice is $50,000; as secretary of state ho receives $3,000. Six Chicago po.itoffice clerks have been dismissed; five for inefficiency and one for "puguaciousuess." During thi last sovon years American Amer-ican locomotives have been exported to the amount of 395, and to the valoe of 5,490,610. law which requires school boartls to give the proforenco to colored teachers teach-ers to colored schools. At a recent moelioe in the city hll, Glasgow, the llev. Joaiah Heuson, ' Uncle Torn," was presented with 750 and a gold watch and chain. Gen. Crook has the right idea when he suggests that the 14.000 or 15,000 idle Sioux be made tn earn Ibeir government gov-ernment rations by the sweat ol their brow. An excursion train was advertised in Helena, Ark., lately, to the scene of a colored man's execution, and the hillssaid that "a good time was expected." ex-pected." Such is the 6trong feeling in Eug-laud Eug-laud as to the ill luck of marrying in May, that a late dignitary ol the church never would perform a marriage mar-riage in that month for friends. ! A huiiL-rv Rochester traniD. the 'other day, stuffed down two and a half loaves of bread at one silling. No wonder we bear so much from that region about "excitements in bread stuffs." A Boston theairo train has been taken off for want of travel. Former country theatre-goers have been converted con-verted in the Moody and Bankey revival, re-vival, and now they use their even ings tor prayer meetings and sewing circles. 1 Among the inmates of Iho Nashville Nash-ville lunatic asylum is a negro woman who lives almo-t entirely upon urnas, which bhe obtains trom the lawn, in front of the building. Sim has ft irreat antinathv to weed, hud Buffers none to grow in the iuclosure. A western editor in an unguarded moment recently wrote: "Tne good husband keeps his wife in wholesome ignorance of all unnecessary secrets." The next day his wife laid the rolling-pin rolling-pin down on the table under his nose three or four limns, and in italicised syllables inquired what he had been up to. |