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Show ALL SORTS. Emerson will u. liver the Alumni addrnes at Was!.i;lj;ion and Lee University, Uni-versity, Virginia, m-it commencement. commence-ment. The MoabUe antiquities, bought in Jevual,ni by the Berlin Museum for -o.tAM tinders, uavo been decided to be spurious. January 1, S7i, there wero 713 completed blast furnaces in the United Uni-ted States, with an annual capacity ef o,4;;9,2o0 net tons. On the Sunday that the Prince of Wales spent in Lucknow, he went to church in tho morning and to an elephant show in the afternoon. It is charged against a number of landlords at Manchester, N. H., that they are turning out of their houses such tenants as refuse to vote the democratic ticket. A young girl in northern Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, lired by the reports of the feats of tho English girls, has challenged the men in her neighborhood to a swimming match. There is a family in Newburyport, Mass, -occupying a house so situated that when dining at the same table the father eats in one town and the mother in another. A negro in South Carolina, who wns complaining of tho hard time, declared that they were the hardest ever known. "Why," said he, "I works all day and steals all night, and yet I'm blest if I kin make an honest living." The total gold product of the world from 184S to tho close of 1S75 is reported re-ported to have been something over 4,000,000,000, but has varied considerably con-siderably from year to year. The present annual yield of the wo'rld is a little below Sl-10,000.000. Mr. Eads says his grant will scarcely scarce-ly be one year old before the channel over tho South pass bar will be the deepest outlet of the Mississippi, although it was only half the depth of the best one when he received permission per-mission to deepen the pass. According to the Reading Eagle, many of the women of that city get drunk twice or thrice every week, and even girlB of thirteen have been carried dead drunk to tlu lock-up. There are also many confirmed opium-eaters among the sex there. A letter from Fayal, o?.v. of the Aznre Islands, holds out mis incentive incen-tive to immigration: Here you get a bottle of wine lor sir ceir.s, a meal tor eight cents, board by tbe day twenty-five cents, while fifty cents wilt buy as much as $5 in tho United States. |