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Show WAIFS. The Belgian census just taken shows tho population of the country to be 5,33U,185. The Iiidian navy, abolished in 1862. U to ho ro-us:itated nnder tbe direction of the viceroy. There are SOO Oiioeae laundries in New York city, giving employment to about 4,000 persons. A. woman 90 years old was before tho municipal court of Boston on Monday, on a charge of drunkenness. A nngro woman died in Providence, rtcenlly, alter much suffering, from ihevtlectof a spider's bite upon hor up. Two young girls, in a fit of religious imthusiasm, have drowned themselves in the miraculoua well at Marpingen, in Rhenish Prussia. A negro sheriff in Louisiana hns put up on his door a placard reading' "Lawyers and other like vsrmin must kep out of this office." Dio Lewis is camping out in California, Cali-fornia, building up with pie and upon kb cake the constitution that he nhaiiert'd with oatmeal aud beans. Tho Umv.ird family of Paris, Ky., ire tall. The father is 6 feet 4 inches; the mother 6 feet J inch; their bohb range from G feel y to 6 feet 11; and Uiutr daughters from 6 feet 2 to C feet 3. |