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A bahï ín Troy sncked the coloring (rom a green veil, and was poisoned to deatlï. The Bulïalo Common Conncil bas prohibited cannon íixíng at political meetings. Jttst before öying in Arkansas, Jolm Newman coiifessed tho commission of a frnïfler, nd said: "I am bound for heil.'' Two CHINAMEÑ, COHvicted of robbery ia Sacramento, oüered to prorido snbstatutes to endure tho iinprisonment, as is tho custom in their own country. A Cambiudge, Mass., girl kept tho company waiting for the wedding till she made tho groom sign a written agreemont to tako iier to the Centennial. A Massaciiubetts clergyman received 30 cents for a marriage fee the other day. Tbe gtoom offered him 20 cents at flrst, but finaüy added 10, " though times is hard." The White House at Washington, D. C, was commenced in October, 1792. James Hoban was the architect. Tho building is modeled after the palacc of the Drke of Leinster. Tsere is so much drowning and so on, tilia year, that the Boston papera contain advertiBonaente of professional divers, ready to recover and return tne bodies of drownod persons. Lo ! wov a soft, white curtain comes apart, And down a patu of violet and rose, A path that with a nwect inteneenees growa Swif tly lunst fair and meet tur bcr suu-saudalled íeet, The Day comes, gladdening the world'j valling heart. Mn. WrtiíJAM Bbach Lawbence has written an article twenty-nine colutns long in the Albany Lavo Journal to show that the American view oí tho extradition question is erroncous. A Pittsbürqh editor solemnly avers that " the bind legs of rats are as tender as those of froga and chickens." Never having tasted either the hind k'gs of chickeus or rats, we shall havo to take his word for it. It was a tourist on Lake Champlain who, on overhearing a Britisher ridiculing the exploits of Ethan Alien, instantly protested against any remarks Ticouderogatory to thecharacter of that patriot chieftain. Pbesedent Porter, of Yale college, says that billiard tables skould be pro■frided for the student, -whereupon the Prëübyterian exelaims: " Shades of the Paritan fotinders ! Billiard tables for Tale college ! Men of God, think of it !" At one of tho great hotels of Chicago the waiters pohteïy hand each guest a morniüg paper after he has givcu his order for breakfact. This keeps about sixty papers moving around ior tbroe hours or so, and pays ín poptllarity naorc than it costs. "The Empress Eugenie," says a corepondent, " has broken sadly in the last year or two, and retains scarcely a trace of her former beauty. Sho has grown very stout, dyes her hair, and oovers her face with powder, -whilo the slight lamenens which she nsed to conreal so skillf ully has beconie very appaiiif. iTi lip.r íríllt." Impobtant erratum in an Eastcrn paper: "For'Weare in favor of poisoning off President Grant on the expirationofhis term,' -which appoared in an editorial artiole in yesterday's edition, read 'Wo aro in favor oí pens.oning off,' " etc. Rbasonino from the idiosyncrasies of of the average white man, perhaps if we were to lend Mr. Buil $2 and present each of his followers with 50 cents in paper eurrency, wo should never gaze upon any of their ugly countenances again. - Occan. A pet dog of good size, belonging to a wealtliy gentleman in New York, was biiried in his moster's lot in Grcenwood cemetery last week by an iindertaker. A burial permit had to be obtained at headquarters, and tue usual price for opening a grave was paid. A resident of Auburn, N. Y. hns a hedge of deadly nightshade about his garden. The potato bugs, on their travels toward his potato patch, a few nights since, siopped on the hedge to lunch. They ate freely of the poisonous ïiightehade, and immediately turnea up their toes. A Chicopee man had a cat which he cared no longer to possess. He took the animal into the garden, struck it nhie times on the head with a hammer, and as it still moved, he boxed its ears with a spade, and then buried it. Next morning that cat walked serenely in to breakfast, willing to forget the past. Akohbishob Lanoy, who for more than a score of years has labored spirit ually among the New Mexicans, has, in a beautiful valley at Santa Fe, a six acre orchard inclosed with high walls and containing a trout brook flowing at the base oi a Swiss chatelet. ïhere are 115 varieties of fruit in his orchard.