Items Of Interest

- Michigan has eighteen persons who are over a hundred years oíd. - She Stoops to Conquer" was written bef ore the days of pin-back skirts. - Richmond has frwo pressing wants- the improvement of James river and a statue of Gen Lee. - The Berlín Zoological Gardens are expecting a live gorilla, which was captured by the Germán expedition at Chinxoxo. - Columbas is the greatest hero on the market place of Genoa. The fishwives swear by him, unmindf ul of his discovery of America. - New Jersey turned out a million and a half pounds of grapes last fall. Two hundred thousand were kept for makiug wine, and the rest exported. - Oscar Cohén, an inmate of the Nevada State prison, is accumulating capital by the manufacture of gamblingimplements during his leisure houis. - No Chinese bank has failed for flve hundred years. When the last failure took place the officers' heads were cut off and flung into the córner with the other assets. - There are from seventy-five to a hundred thousand Chinamen in California. John flirarishes anywhere, but seems to have a slight fancy for the immediate vicinity of gold mines. - Statistics show that from 1853 to 1871, wages in France went up more than 40 per cent. ; while of the masters 80 per cent, were originally workmen, and 15 per cent, the sons of workmen. - Nevada has passed a law forbidding any person practicing as a physicían in that State who has not praeticed medicine there f or five years, or does not hold a diploma from an establislied medical college. - A juvenile criminal, sentenced a few days ago to five years' penal servitude at London, cried because the Judge would not send him to sea, and as he left the doek exclaimed, "Ihope you will send me to sea next time, my lord. " - Although the Government of Yucatán has decreed compulsory vaccinnation, the law remains a dead letter, as the Indians refuse to be inoculated, and even go so far as to cut out the marks in the bodies of those who have been persuaded to submit to the deeree. - The Indians imprisoned in the old fort at St. Augusta, Fia., hada war dance the other night. Fires were startej within the fort, which burned briskly, and lighted up the scène for a müe around. The Indians in full war array carne forth from a dark dungeon and danced for two hours. - Ex-Empress Engenie is much in the oondition of the boy who would like to eat his cake and keep it too. She would like to sell every bit of her laces and finery in order to give the Prince Imperial a lift in life, and at the same time she would like to retain them for the adornment of her proverbial fifty-year-old charms. - When a Germán Grand Duke, noted for having been a stolid woodenhead all his life, and for having done nothing in behalf of his abdominal dominions, dies, they immediately make a stift marble horse in the market place of his capital - probably as a warning to all whom it may concern. He also wears spurs and a sword - a fact almost lorgotten to be mentioned. - A few days since, in Kentucky, a coy maiden of ninety-nine summers was wedded to a fifty-year-old paralytic on one leg. In the same neighborhood another maiden of seventy-five summers recently brought snit for divorce against her husband for his alleged infidelity, althouch he was bom seventy-three years ago. Blue grasa is known to furnisli much nutriment. - The gamins of London, being forbidden to beg in the streets, have nearly circumvented the law. They purchase a bundie of straw, oommeroe of all kinds being free, and sitting at the corner of a street entreat pedestrians to buy a single whisk. It is said that some urchins by this traffio make a proflt of over ten dollars a day. -Col. S. H. Lockett, late of Montgomery, Ala. , but now serving with the Egyptian army, writes that all the positions for which foreign officers were wanted arefllled. The number of Amercans there engaged is twenty, and they are partly employed in the bureau at headquarters, in Cairo, and partly in explorations in the interior. - The fact that he commanded a rebel privateer during the war has deprived Capt. James J. Waddell of San Francisco of a valuable command. Waddell had been appointed captain of the San Francisco, one of the Pacific Mail steamers, but was removed for fear that he might be arrested for piracy at Honolulú, he having burnt a vessel after he had knowledge of the surrender of Lee. A remarkable instance of calculation was recorded at Aylmer, Canada, where a barber named Johnson, for a bet of fifty cents, ran under the cars of a railway train that was passing at a rapid rate of speed. He won the wager, though he lost the heel of one boot by a wheel that came unpleasantly close as he emerged. The man who lost the bet said he had expected to win and get a couple of dollars for attending the inquest.