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Show ALL SORTS. The cost of the Piirif? exposition of 1878 is estimated at 35,313,000 francs, or about 7,0t2,G00. Give ub the dollars of iinybodj what's the use of being particular. Rochester Democrat. An enterprising Scrauton girl baa at ihe present time two breach of promise cased pending in tho courts. The statement is made Iron. Washington Wash-ington that a iarge majority of the national republican committee are opposed to Hayes. A borae owned in Baltimore seizes the rata that come into his trough by the back, and one grip with his teeth settles the case. He catches lrom j three to Biz every night. Eleven western railroada with s'ock , amounting to705,828,4ol aud a bond list aggregating $715,447,540, paid interest oniv on $140,710,251) in stock and $388,062,273 in bonds. i j The pope's physicians will probably recommend that he lake a aeries of ; baths at Civita Vecchia, or else that water there rum bo conveyed to the vaticau, us it waa two years ago. At Lille, in France, un infuriated tigress belonging to tftiuaer's English menagerie, attacked the wild beast turner Cameron, but be succeeded in cowing her after a short etroggle. Pea soup, tolerably thick, is more nourishing than meat, and a great deal more so thun wheal fluur. There is more real food in a bushel of peaa or beau 8 than in six buohels of potatoes. pota-toes. Chief Justice Agnew, ol tho Buprome court of Pennsylvania, hue been fined $20 by a justico ol the peace, near Pittsburg, for shooting game out of season. Impotent defense ignorance ignor-ance of the lawl Bogus Charley, the Modoc nud hero of many a fight in tha lava beds, is now a Methodist, and is running a ciimp meeting down in Kansas, assisted as-sisted by such adjuncts as a broadcloth suit, plug hut, and paper collar. Abdul Kerim, the Turkish generalissimo, general-issimo, has the most gigantic appetite in Europe. His dinner ordinarily consists of an entire roast kid, twenty-five twenty-five or thirty boiied eggs, and when in good form he tops oli' with a gooBe or a chicken. "To this night's mnsqueiude," quoth Dick, "by pleasure 1 am beckoned, beck-oned, and think it will be a pleasant trick to go as Charles the Second." Tom felt for repartee athirat, and thus to Richard said: "You'd better o ns Charles the First, as that requires no head." The Saratogian tells the following: "At the Delaware and Hudson depot yesterday a lady and gentleman climbed up on either side of the seven foot picket fence that extends through the arcade, to kiss each other goodbye. good-bye. They hud previously attempted to kiss between the pickets, but space forbade." Garibaldi has been very ill from an attack of arthritis. He was seized with a fit, and remained for some time as stiff and cold as a corpse. When restored to consciousness he ' jocularly remarked, "Oh, that's nothing; you may be sure I ahull survive sur-vive Pio Nono and attend bis funeral." Dr. Erasmus Wilson has been investigating in-vestigating the number of hairs in a square inch of the human head, aud edtimates that it contains on an average aver-age about 1,066, Taking the superficial super-ficial area of the head at 120 square inches, this gives about 133,920 hairs for the entire head. In Fort Wayne the chambermaids and ecrub girls of several of the taverns tav-erns were in Buch sympathy with the Btrikere that they quit work and refused re-fused to make up a bed, empty a slop bucket or scrub a stair unless the publicans would advance their wages 50 cents a week. How little the American parent knows of what hia chili is doing haB just been illustrated in Connecticut. A South Norwalk mi?s, while herself attending an uptown day M'.hoo), started a privateschool in the city and maintained it in flourishing condition several months before her father discovered dis-covered the lact. An old lady from Pitt county stepped step-ped into Captain Brown's store on Saturday and inquired tbe price of flour. Mr. Red Thomas, tho polite, good looking clerk, told her flour had gone up to $2 per barrel on account of the Russians aud Turks fighting. "I wish the Rooster aud Turkeys would quit fighting before God I do," moaned the old lady, shaking her head. Tarboro Southerner. Andrew Jackson Davis declares, in the Banner of Light, that he recently, .in a trance, saw five weddings in the Bummer laud. All these were unions of couples who had been husband and wife on earth. He says: "How long those two men (angel youths now) waited for the coming of their mates! How loyally patient those three angel maidens (once wives and mothers on earth) waited for their darling husbands hus-bands to come to them through death's triumphal arch! These ten persona were truly mated and happily married, four in St, Louis and six in London." |