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Show MAIL ITEMS. Tom Thumb is about to go iuto atock raising in Texas. Sunday afternoon newspapers are suggested in some cities, i A library asaociation has been formed by the negroes of Richmond, and they ask for books. j Milan, Italy, has fifteen music journals, which support themselves mainly by puffing the students. John Tyler, a son of the president of that name, proposes to run lor governor of Florida upon an independent inde-pendent ticket. Thomas D. Jonca, an Ohio sculptor, has finished what he considers the masterpiece of bis life a bust of Reverdy Johnson. Two railway carriages have been built in Brussels at a cost ot $10,000, for the use of Queen Victoria during her travels on tho continent. Mr. Henry Bergh's comedy, "The Mani Sex," was performed in the I Brooklyn academy for the firBt time, 1 on the 20th, before about 100 persons. It is related that a Hartford (Conn.) gentleman invited Mr. Sothern, the actor, to visit him, and requested him to "'bring Dundreary aUo, if you can I" A call for a meeting to organize a Blaine club baa been issued by prominent prom-inent republicans in Buffalo. This is attacking Conkling on his own ground. All the salaries of the managers of 'Jr. Beeeher's Christian Union have been reduced, Mr. Beccher himself ottering to work on a reduced salary until the paper regains prosperity. The New York Sun insists that it was a secret know-nothing anti-Catholic anti-Catholic movement which carried New Hampshire this spring. This ball was set in motion by Grant's Des Moines ppeech. The Chinese employed in the fuc tones at North Adams, Mass., are outgrowing their superstitious in re-gaed re-gaed to the returning of their dead to Unina, and have begun to bury them in the local cemetery. An insane person whose feet had been frozen, and who had been placed in the police station at Exeter, N. H., a few days ago, broke a window and with a piece of glass cut oQ bis ten toes to relieve the pain. Lake Erie has been stocked with more than a million and a half of young white fish, and it is believed that more than ninety per centum of these will, in the course of two or threo years, become mature fish along the shore of the lake. By the compromise in the Ward will case at Detroit, tho widow and the children of his second marriage are to receive property valued at , $1,500,000, and the other heirs are to have the remainder of (he property, which is valued at t2.00O.O0O, af;er . tho dischargo of the indebtedness ' thereon. An oyster opener at Toulouse, while opening half a dozen raws for a customer, found a fine pearl worth thousands of dollars, and pocketed it. The customer insisted thr.t it belonged to him, asserting that the sheila, oyster, juice and everything else in the shells of the oysters he ordered were his property. The law will de-cidy de-cidy tho question. Writing of Queen Victoria's proposed pro-posed new title of Kin press of India, the H'vild Jjondon correspondent says: The pUin truth about this "Empress" business, I believe, is that Princess Beatrice wishes to be called "Kcr Royal and Imperial Highness," so that her amiable sister-in-law the daughter of the Emperor of liusrtia, shall no longer havo the power of "putting on more style" than herself. |