Show PASSING EVENTS y W the population of melbourne is said mid to be about cy the washington star says say that no man ever attacked attached an editor who did not in the end come off second best cy 17 there are one hundred and sixty five little children in new 0 orlenna r leana in in an asah asylum am by themo themselves vives who have hare been reduced to orphanage by their parents falling victims to the prevailing v ail i a g epi epidemic demic W three young recently accomplished complis hed the herculean feat of swimming swimming the mississippi they started at the mouth 0 of the wolf and landed very much exhausted just above fort pickering memphis eagle cy the plymouth journal england announces the discovery of a mode of transmitting articulate sounds to a great distance by means of an instrument termed the telephone water being the agent or medium of transmission won OP on the ath of june a locomotive was run ru n for the first time five ave miles on the eg egyptian y railroad much to tho th astonishment of the be bouins who galloped alongside on their fleet horses for some time until they found they had no chance of keeping pace with the locomotive tv the shakers at shirley are losing some of their members the yung young and pretty sisters of the fraternity are escaping whenever an opportunity occurs and the young brethren evince a desire to follow five girls girl are said to have left them within a week L V LV we see accounts of hanging all over the country poor use to put a man to cy the latest novelty in the way of fraud is that of making chicory to resemble the coffee berry the chicory is ground and made into a stiff paste and in this state is i so as to resemble the real berry the imitation is a eo perfect as to deceive the keenest eye cy they that deny a god destroy a mans nobility for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he is in not kin to god hy his spirit he is a base ban and ignoble creature bacon fy truth is the most powerful thing in the world since even fiction if self itself must be governed by it and can only please by its ita resemblance the appearance of reality is is necessary to make any passion agreeably agreen bly represented and to be able to move others wp must be moved ourselves or at least seem to be so go upon some probable grounds by mr gilchrist a cattle dealer of medina county ohio had his bis pocket picked a few days since nee of a art rt monie containing and certificates of deposit ind and papers worth on friday morning it was returned mines aurs murs only the cash with this note in a ladys hand to watch a man maa six weeks and then only get such a d d mean sum it wont pay 1 FLO the baltimore B times says it is mentioned as a new and unusual feature in the flour trade that a demand for it has come to us from the Mediterranean a put part of the world from whence we at one time received AFFAIR at wheeling on monday week a dray loaded with 29 kegs of powder was being carted through the streets when one fell and an explosion followed the explosion shook the whole city all the gunpowder but one keg exploded W kimberlie was instantly killed P fatally injured and several other persons persona wounded and aad much damage done to property A ACID INDIAN black snake the celebrated indian now years of age is still hale and hearty residing at alegand reservation N Y he H e w was an on one e of th the e in most cot aati active ve in his tribe in bringing about a treaty in behalf of the united states with gen washington at philadelphia FHE it ia estimated that within the last six years there has been an addition to the currency of the world in se be gold of california and australia to the amount of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars cat W dean swift proposed to tax female ama beauty ww and leave every lady to rate her own charms he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive fy an adopted citizen wrote home that he was employed by the state on coming over they found it jut just as he be bad stated he was up op at sing sing serving out a sentence for life s cy woman and her wishes is the tole title of a pamphlet recently published in cincinnati the wonder is how the subject can he properly treated in any work less than an encyclopedia ey fights are very easily got up all ali that is required are three participants two block heads and a pint of new rum fly my dear how shall we have our marriage printed will you hove your name simply delilah or do you still insist on that long string of titles you spoke of yesterday 1 tt I do most moot assuredly assur effly do you think P pm going ng to be known as simple delilah no by all the gods of love you shall have my name printed thus thas delilah antoinette victoria adelaide marie and then if you yon choose you may link on your name but a poor pigtail appendage it is that gal was a womans comans rights man WA aa well weh has been dug in siberia to the depth of feet in the frozen ground measures are being taken to ascertain the depth of the frozen ground at hudsons Hud sons bay by the london geographical society at york factory lat 57 deg sir david boardman ascertained that the summer thaw pen only three feet and on the shores of great bear only 22 inches WA fia lawyer on his deathbed death bed willed his whole property to the lunatic asylum a saying byng that he de desired sire i d it should go to the same class of persons he took it from TOBACCO punch says a man who goes to church to chew tobacco and spit upon the floor ought to be taken by the head and heels and used as a mop W fig A western paper in describing the effects of a severe thunder shower says A cow was struck b by y 1 lightning ig han in and instantly killed belonging to the v village physician who had a beautiful calf only omy four days old W SIT when you see a young woman just out of bed at nine leaning with her elbow upon the tha table gasping and sighing n oh dear how dreadfully I 1 feel rep reply y upon it she will not make a good wife afi y oy y you ou are not far from a fool fol 11 cc well oil as we aint more than three feet fee apart I 1 give in to that was wa the reply L |