Year: 1876

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handsome Princess drives by
with her body guard of cavalry,
but they salute and smile. The
Servians, simply and charmingly
democratic, have no loyalty to-
ward their reign:ng house. Like
the inhabitants Of the moon, ac-
cording to the French report,
they expect the Prince to be a
worker, and on that condition
they are contented to obey him.
His duty, above all things, is to
forward the grand idea, and to
raise Servia among the peoples.
He has still much to do in both
cases, but much has been done.


Perhaps the money spent in
building and decorating the the,
atre might have been laid out to
more advantage in paving the
town anew or in lighting it. For
it's streets, wide enough, are
about as comfortable to walk
over as a road newly macadam-
lzed; and its lamps, very few
and far between, are filled. with
petroleum. There is not a rail
way in the country, as every
one knows. But the Servians
are anxious to learn, and they
do their best.


The future Importance Of this
country is very great. With
the Save on one side, opening
into the Adriatic, and the Da-
nube on the other, with mines
Of iron, silver, lead and copper,
profitably working even now
Belgrade should take an import
ant place AMONG cities.-Cor.
London Telegraph.
A SPANISH BELKNAP.-It must
be very humiliating to the pride
Of the average Of the Spanish
grandee to hear that he present
Captain General of the Ever
Faithful Isle has been trying his
hand in a line of business SINH
lar to that which the late Sec
retary of War in Washington
found so profitable. Serious
charges have been made against
the Viceroy, and what with in
surgents, vomito, bankruptcy
and corruption, Cuba is not a
country for the hidalgos to boast
of. l, t!


George Sand always preserved
her love letters and never ate
boiled cabbage with anything
but a wooden fork. The lives
Of those great women do much
to teach us how we can make
our lives sublime. - Brooklyn
Argus.


1t is said that in 1859 George
Washington sent to England for
nine pounds of mixed candies,
and this was at a time, too,
when a girl would desert home,
parents and kindred and cling
to a man for four pounds and a
half-Brooklin Argus.


While two Ohio tramps were
working to pay for their dinners
the other day, they were both
struck by lightning and killed.
1t was the first time the light
ming ever got a lick at a tramp
at work, and it struck as if it
knew it was going to be the last.
louisville Courier Journal.


The first thing a San Francis
co man does when he comes to
New York is to get his boots
BACKED; the first thing Boston
man does is to get something to
eat; the first thing a Chicago
man does is to ask policeman
where is the nearest bar-room to
buypostage stamps.-New York
Herald.


:" I suppose there are plenty
Of sawmills over in your State
said a Chicago man to a party
from Michigan the other night.
Wall, 1 should say there wuz,"
replied the Michigander. "Why,
sir, Michigan is getting so dern
full of sawmills that you can
hardly meet man over there
with more than two fingers on
a hand" And sticking up a paw
on which dwelt a lone digit as
proof of his assertion, he quietly
continued give shook hands
with um myself" - Chicago
Tribune.