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report that sand is filling up the
Suez Canal.
Kisses are sold at fairs in Iowa
A man pays a certain amount into
the general fund, and then selects
the Sirl or woman he desires.
Sam Butterworth, the friend OF
Gen. Sickles in the Key affair, has
crown enormously rich, it is said,
in California and is rated at
s2,ooo,o0o.
. A Paris halter, whose stock was
riddled with bullets during the
siege, now sells the damaged hats
at fabulous prices as souvenirs OF
the war. =
General Joseph E. Johnston is
said to be in better health than
ever before since the the campaign
in, Georgia He acquits himself
Loyalty, and does nothing to dis
courage the efforts of-the Govern
ment to tranquilize the country.
Among the passengers by the
steamship Paraguay which arrived
on Friday from London, is Captain
John McCatferty, released by the
British Government on the same
terms extended to O'Donovan
Rosa and his fellow exiles.
A Berlin letter to the World says
the Prussian authorities contem-
plate a general exchange of the
needle gun for the chassepot, OF
which over a half million were cap
tured in the war. Bronze cannon
are to be introduced in place OF
steel. .-
Mr.. Stephens is already expert
encing some of the minor woes OF
journalism. In the latest copy of
his paper received he says promi-
nently, "for beautifully, i'll our last,
rcad 1carIully.
David Pringle, of New ork,
agent of the patent medicine firm
Of Thomas Holloway, of London,
has been arrested and lodged in
Ludlow street Jail, charged with
embezzling $4,000 of his employ
er's funds.
The rice crop Of Louisiana of
1871 is estimated at forty-nine
thousand nine hundred and seven
ty.onc barrels, of 2OO pounds each,
against 1O0,740 barrels in 1880.
A full acreage was put under cul-
ture, but the drought cut off the
yield. The prospects for the rice
crop of 1S7l--72 are favorable,
though the acreage is small.
Paris now exhibits few traces Of
the recent struggle. The barri-
cudes have been levelled, new trees
have been planted, aud the dam
aged buildings are being rapidly
repaired. Business has not yet re-
vived, the briskest trade at present
being in photographs Of the city
and relics of the war. The streets
are becoming crowded again with
foreigners and returning Par-
sians. st
There were 670 marriages cele-
brated during the existance of the
Commune in Paris, and the "happy
couples" are not yet certain if their
unions will lie legalized. In the
registration of births and deaths
these must be accepted ,lem. con.
The police during the last sighs of
the Commune found eighty-three
children who strayed from their
homes. No one has yet come for
ward to claim them.
The Earl of El!enborough, now
8lyears Of age, was when school
boy appointed by his father, then
Chief Justice OF England, to the
Joint chief clerkship of the Pleas
in in the Court Of Queens Bench,
and has ever since that time drawn
annually about $4,000 in salary
and fees without performing any Of
the duties Of the office. The noble
Earl clings to this little sinecure
with the tenacity Of Tite Barna-
Gle.
A correspondent relates that at
a social entertainment iii Berlin a
timid member of the Parliament
approached Bismarck and asked
him in what state he imagined
Lorraine and Alsace would be
after three years of German rule.
"Does that trouble you much p
answered Bismarck. Eyes, very
much," replied the Deputy.
"Well," rejoined the Prince, cit
does not trouble me at all. Who
knows whether the world will
exist in three years from now?'
The Honolulu Advertiser is res
ponsible for the statement that a
harpoon was found in a recently
captured whale in the Arctic sea
on the western side of the CONT.
pent, that was knpwn to belong
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