The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-02-13
GENERAL AND PERSONAL

ID S"'o 10 ahtiialo>r~% sdNc for corple-of decaying wreaths.
 The University of Warzburg in tends to celebrate, in August, the tercentenary of its foundation.
 In most of the larger towns of Ger many art classes have been estab- lished for mechanics, and are largely attended.
 Gold has been washed from a]luvial lands within the limits of Gainesville, Ga, which pays 50 cents to the pan. The latest phase in Parisian suicide is to shoot yourself in hack. It is apt to damage the linings, but ena- bles the suicide to be promptly con- veyed to the morgue.
 One of William Blacks literary characteristics, which probably does not arouse the admiration of the pub fishers, is mentioned as a very lofty notion of the financial value of his work.
 Some of the students of the Indiana College dressed up a gawky, long haired comrade as Oscar Wilde, &C., companied him on featuring tour to Crawfordville,a and dined with an aesthetic villager.
 Charles Dickens, Jr., is an unro- mantle young man. who devotes him. self to the more lucrative forms of publishing, such as guide books, etc. He has just issued the Continental A B c Railway Guide," for the use of American and English travellers.
 "You have no ruins, no natural curiosities in this country" drawled Mir. Oscar Wilde to Mrs. Senator Pendleton at reception last week. "No," replied the quick -witted lady, "but our ruins will come soon enough, and as to our curiosities, we import them"
 The report of the death of King Theebaw of Burmah has been con- tra dicted, and he IS said to be recov- ering from illness. He appears, how eyer, to suffer from delirium tremens, and to be altogether in such a state of health that his death may occur at any moment.
 While in college the late President Garfield wrote as follows: eff gam nothing else by the course, l shall at least rid myself of that reverentiaI awe which have been accustomed to feel toward a man with more sheepskin than sense. The world is terribly gulled by college muffs."
 Charles H. Foster, the noted spirit ualistic medium, is deemed incurably insane. He is in the asylum at Dan va, !. Mass. His mediumship does not ~ so m to have enriched him per maneptlv. m though at times he made money rapidl, -' and nd. an appeal for charity is made in ni' 0ena'i' -ES - Bayason, =" irv1s'ter at he terms os Brooklyn, has invented wffs Ss,L a bicycle railroad, to solve tn. on lem of rapid transit, by means ot " elevated tunnel, with latticed sides, supported by row of posts or pillars. With wheels fifteen feet in diameter he calculates to effect speed of 150 miles an hour.
 Gen. Lucius F. Hubbard, the new governor of Minnesota, commanded a brigade at the battle of Nashville. In the heat of the Gght General Thomas directed Hubbard to march double-quick, in the face af mur- derous fire, on a rebel battery on a hilltop. The charge was one of the most daring of the war. Hubbard took the battery, but lost many of his men, and himself got an ugly wound.
 It is estimated, says the Daily h. dicator, that it will cost $3,000,O00 to complete the Atlantic & Pacific to the Colorado river, 56O miles from Albuquerque, and S10,0OO,0OO to build the road from thence to Mo- have, distance of 311 miles. The latter extension IS to be made by the Southern Pacific.