Show increase in population bince 1871 is 14 per cent tle rite in our own country is 30 THE funding of the national debt under garfielda Gar fields administration saves the country a year valedictorian this year was a hebrew her saluta a german and the prize declaimer a chinaman will have this year a season of unwonted quiet ben batler will not bo in field for the governorship WINDOM says he has no fear of the rascals who are sending anonymous letters of a threatening chancher chanc ter he need not have that class of curs lack even the courage to shoot a man in the backas Guiteau did the president magazine recently received an article by the late dean stanley but it was impossible to publish it owing to the illegible writing the paper has been returned to be deciphered by some one familiar with his hen tracks OF the illiterate voters in the united states of them aie in the old slave states mostly colored only one vote in five of the entire vot population of tha country and bonfy one half of the the south are able to read their ballots A DIVINE was lately cheated out of his fee by a mean fellow who promised to call next day but the reverend man got even with the de fault erb advertising the wedding adding to the announcement no cards no cake no cash no certificate AT california the other day in the case of a saloon keeper charged with violating the sunday law the following verdict we the jury find the defendant not guilty because the law is a dead letter they settled the case and disposed of the law all at one lick GUITEAU wants to act as his own lawyer he remembers the axiom that a lawyer who pleads his own cause his a fool for a client there is a great deal of shrewdness about the fellow and he is working up tho insanity dodge or to speak moie accurately the fool dodge vers skillfully DAVID DAVIS says thit under no con will he be a candidate cindi date for reelection and that after he leaves the senate he will devote his time to an vate business the chicago times pie diets that governor collim will be elected to succeed him should the publicans public ans secure the illinois legislature in 1882 has been the surrounding the recent extraction of a troublesome tooth belonging to tho shah ot peasia his entire court was present to witness the awful spectacle and during the same day he received no fewer than dubats ducats as presents of congratulation it was a european dentist alo performed the successful operation and his grateful majesty rewarded his with an even of the dubats ducats adoo tho quaint things that come fi oin new occasionally arc the acts of her public officials the mayor of hoboken has submitted to the common council a veto messa go that will prevent james lannigan liquor dealer from securing a licence his honor action is based on the ground that a icle candidate who heated u friends at Lann igans bai list fall was worth of drinks this the or says is more acmon than highway robbery and he cannot regard lanagan is a proper or honest person such as the ordinance re quites licenses may be granted to perhaps it is fortunate foi many other saloon keepers in hoboken that mayor doean doesn i know as much about them dussias Rus sias recent proposal lor an international extradition treaty for of revolutionary lutio nary though row for the first time put forward on so extensive scale is in itself nothing more than a revival of one of the most characteristic act ideas of napoleon the latter his rule of prance as first consul became irritated to such a de arco by the virulence of the attacks made upon him by kiench journals published in london as well as the he attempts upon his life which emanated aiom the u qua iter that he at length attempted to forcy an extradition treaty upon england threat aning immediate war in the event of a refusal the english go felt to grant so voided but in order to leive no juit ground of quarrel louis peltier the most venomous of all tho kiench refu faco wis brought to trial in london found guilty despite s splendid display of eloquence in his defenso by air james mackintosh but premature outbreak of the wai saved him from punishment v w 7 f x r f H w i i i |