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CONDENSED PARAGRAPHS.
IL The Bill making Land Warrants assig,
able, passed the Senate on the 2ist ult.

1lOg S3tu Oy Ifue, las q CIRCUS CLOWN u
riviledged everywhere $3.50
Bacon says that his mother was so fond Of
the family, that, if all The children
lad been wash tubs, there would not have been
whole bottom in the house.
.y' The journals in Paris compelled to
send their proof. sheets TO the Mayors Office,
% be approved. before putting to press
" An lrshman few days since, bough.
I family Bible, and on taking it home, made his
hrst record AZ follows: "Patrick D., born
Sept, 80, aged years"
~ Professo: Stuart, President Of the The
illogical SEMINARY at Andover, died Of infuen-
"a on the 4th
To" Louis Napoleon is ii years of age; his
uncle was Al when he abdcated ut Fontain-
bleu.
III Eugene Sue is among the political pris.
oners al Paris
1T Miss Charlotte Cushman il GONZALES
cent.
CARAvAJAL.-The Rio Grandc Flag Of the
10th January says, that Caravajal has received
reinforcements, and will soon attack Matamoray
again.
THE RAILWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES
The American Railway Times Of the LIST in
slant, contains list Of all the railways in the
United States, by which ii appears that the
number of rawas in operation is 262, measur.
| ing II sos miles in length, and constructed at
a cost of 1886, 150,s45 The number of rail-
ways in course Of construction is AZ, measuring
| IL ,22S miles The total number Of railways is
337, and the total number Of miles in operation
nd in course Of construction is q, $685.
| PRESERVATION OF BoDIgs.-At the last
meeting Of the French Academy of Sciences.
a paper Of considerable interest was read by M.
/. Falcony. Having found that the various SUBJ
stances hitherto employed for preserving from
corruption such parts OF dead bodies are
needed for anatomical purposes were inefficient,
he entered on a series Of experiments, com.
pretending sulphaie Of soda, corrosive subli-
mate, chlorure Of zinc, alcohol, &c and has
, come to the conclusion that sulphate of zinc,
) dissolved at deterrent degrees, is the substance
, which is the most efficient for the purpose. An
injection OF four or FIVE litcrs would, he says,
. perfectly well preserve dead body, as is prov
: ed by the preparations belonging to the anatom-
= ical cabinet at Genoa. Bodies prepared
: preserve all their fexbility at the end Of 40
= days. II is Only after that period that they
e began to dry up, still preserving, however, their
6 natuarl color.-Exchange.
e SINKING OF MousTArs.-lti is stated that
. portion OF Walden's Ridge in Tennessee,
d sunk with a noise resembling deep toned thun-
ID der, leaving huge cape in the timber that frin.
], miles in parallel direction with the top. The
r. gap in the dens timber appeared to be about
'e sixty or hundred feet in width, and the fiss-
'e ures in the earth reached to an unknown DEPTH
to in which trees Of the largest size were up
n and enormous rocks, which had probably lain
IS concealed for ages. were rent from their PRINT
70 tive holdings and laid bare The foundation
which the mountain rests is supposed to have
1T given way.
| HAIL 1r
E. amounts to sic, 25o,OOo.
d, The railroad time from Cincinnati to Pitts.
- burgh is 45 hours.
of SUDDEN DIsArPEARAScE or CHoLEnA-lt
le stated that the cholera which has been raging
to at Maza,lan for some time, disappeared entirely
ps Immediately after violent temptest, which did
OF much damage to houses and shipping
III The widow of Fenimore Cooper died sud-
er denly, Jan. Goth. She had been sick of the
n asthma.
~ COMET OBsERvED.-On Monday night week,
n Ench's comet observed at the National Oh
IS servatory, in Washington City, by Mr. Fergu-
N son, through large equatorial The comet is
described as faint white nebula with brlancy
It capable Of bearing only the faintest illumina-
nv ton
%, One of the rappers Of the Andrew Jackson
VI Davis school, PROCESSES to have had recent
~ communication from the spirit Of E,hcn Allen,
eu in which he stated that he and Tom Paine wcre
Us stopping at hotel kept by John Bunyan.-
" albany .3.tas.
he Governor Farewell has directed the Attorney
nd General to notify delinquent counties to pay up
y by the I'd of February, in default of which suits
IN will be commenced.
ed Hannah Moore said to Horace Walpole, III
Us wanted to punish enemy, it should be by
lst fastening on him The trouble Of constantly hat
on ing ''eDody.
or ANOTHER RAILROAD lNJuNcrIoS-The Mi
re. chigan City Meas says, awe understand that
an application for Injunction against the
N. ALBANIA and Salem Il. X. Co., restraining
them from building that portion Of their road
-, between this city and Lafayette, will be argued
" before Judge Chamberlain, in Goshen, en- Tues
.a' day next, at the suit of the Michigan Southern
On Company"
"a CARAvAJAL.-The Rio Grand Flag Of the
-, 10th January says, that Caravajal has received
~ renforcements, and will soon attack Matamora.
IL again.
AT THE SALARY OF Sr. PAUL.-St. Paul, in
W. enumerating the wages OF his preaching, men.
ha tons among other items Of his salary, shorty
re stripes save one"
Ito %" Austria is endeavorng to organize a
ng 'c"ntained system" against the commerce Il
lc- England.
ize
re. Our Dubuque friends can rest assured that i
III. was from no lack of interest in the Dubuque
ca. and Keokuk Railroad, that prevented fail
er. representation Of the stock OF Cedar Rapids
Mt knowing the election illegal at a meeting called
he OIL the 22d, prevented us from the sending O
in. egatinn-economy being the motto of the
es- day.-Progress,re Era. sef
ed. 10. What is Bloomer. A woman who
IAN IAN pants for notoriety.
A PGUDESr You've MAN.-Our special re.
porter assures US that the following dialogue &C.
GE tually occurred in his presence the other day, al
nef the house OF retired tallow chandler in Beeck
ts' er street;
De "Jake did you carry that umbrella home tina
ny | borrowed yesterday ?" .gs#s
ng "No, father you have often told me to lay
me up something for rainy day, and as though,
Ia it would rain before long, have laid the UNI
- brella up.
res DOUGLAS IN OHIo.-The Cincinnati Inqni.
rer says that the dem 'cra'ic delegation to the
~, National Convention is thus divided in that
he State: for Cass, II for Allen, 2 for Butler,
ed for Douglas, and for Houston.
rs Mr. Slow DIscoURsETu on GREAT Tories
ltr -"'Bimelech, my son, said Mr.. Slow, shak.
40 ing his head with oracular and owl-like profund-
ity, sit isn't well to know too much, my boy
20 your father never did-hc know too much for
- - that. Thoughts is perplexin', and the human
10 mind 'BimeIech is too precious thing to be
wore out with too much friction. Dnt abuse
rs the gifts Of mater, my son, cause mater one of
60 EN-, she is. Don't investigate anything new,
", my boy, cause there's thousand old things Of
&c. more conscience to look artei-.he first of
nd which !. number one New nations pernlcxc.
rs the mind, dear-thcres full enough fools in the
= world who will look artei such thing, without
your roublin' your precious head about EN-