All Sorts

A Texas hog weighs 1,450 pounds. Cejcinnati has a debt oí $23,000,000. Whisky straiglit makes crooked ways. Pawneb IndiaHS detect pure gold by the smell. A lady in California sports a wardrobe valned at $100,000. Intbbest in the Tichborne claimaut is waning in England. O'Leary will -walk in Paris dnring the Bummer's exhibition. Naval ofBcers -will have to whistle for their pay nntil July. FiFTY-POUB municipalities in Massachusetts aro free from debt. Three North Carolina noighbors are the fathers of forty children. Bret Harte has engaged to write for Scribner'a Monthly during this year. Bayabd Taylor has boen thirty years on the staff of the New York Tribune. Mbs. A. T. Stewart pays $9,000 in taxes each year ou her New York residence. Montqomery Queen's circus bas been , sold at Louisville, in bankruptcy, for $10,000. A bill-poster in an Ohio town covered the tombstones in a graveyard with circus cuts. PHTLADEiiPHiA has a Sabbath Alliance, recently formed, for the enforcement of the Sunday laws. The King of Sinm intends sending a diplomatic representativo to the United States next summer. Money is so scarce now that most people worship a dollar with a certain species of I-dollar-try. The number of medical students entered in the various Germán schools during the past year was 6,146. A St. Louis woman, who saw some boys throwing stones at her little son, was so startled that she died. Chicago has fifty more fire-alarm telegraph boxes than New York, and twice as many as any other city in the country. Accordhïg to the census held on the lst of January last, the population of Madrid is 404,588 persons. According to the Statesman's Yearbook it was, in 1864, 475,785. In St. Petersburg it is regarded as almoBt certain that one of the Eussian conditions will be the restoration of St. Sophia at Constantinople to the worship of the Greek Church. In Meriden, Conn., a Germán woman belongs to the corps of laborera who rfitch the troet for gas-pipe, and she handles the piek and shovel as skillfully as the best of them. The Illinois State Agricultural Department reporta that there are 342.682 acres of orohard in the State, and that the produce last year was worth $3,589,672, or 810.47 per acre. Mr. Bhandt, a member of the Minnesota Legislatnre, accepted a bribe of $50, gave it to the clerk, and exposed the corruption, which related to the supply of books for the public schools. TnK Dardanelles is about forty miles in length, and is from three-fourths of a mile to two miles wide. Xerxes crossed the channel on a doublé bridge of boats, B. C. 480, and Alexander crossed it B. C. 334. As a party of Germana were playing cards in Syracuse, the dealer gave threc earcïs to one player and üve to another. Somebody remarked upon it, when the dealer said he could not see, and feil backward in his chair dead. It was supposed in Paris that, owing to the war, there would not be more than 300 ltussian expositors at the coming exli i bit ion; 700, however, have dcmanded space, and the section devoted to Bussia threatens to be qnite insufficient. An Ohio schoolmaster marked a pretty girl pupil nine in the examination in chemistry, although her real grade was 6ix, and wanted her to kiss him as a recompense. She told her mother, and now the schoolmaster is in trouble. M atik Twain writes to a friend in Detroit donying the charge that he is lazy. Instead of being lazy, he says, he haa no less than four books under way, with the title of each nicely written out in a plain hand, and the firstchapters headed off. There were twenty men engaged in selling liquor in Worcester, Mass.; to one minister of the gospel, and eight dram-shops to each church. More money is spent for liqaors than it takes to support the churches, schools and charities of tho town. An Iowa Justice of the Peace has ruled that a father has no right to occupy his parlor while the danghter and her young nan have possession. The young ladies of the State are about to present the J. P. with a testimonial of thoir estopín. A rooLiSH fellow named Henley, re-, siding near New York, has issued a challenge to any man in Amerioa to smoke cigars. Henley says he has smoked 100 in twenty-three hours, and can bent that. He desires to wager $500 to $1,000 on the result, Some French fishermen near Cape Asjde, France, lately had a dogfish entangled in their net, which, after dragging their boat about during the entire night at the rate of twelve miles an hour, was ñnally captured and brought to land. It measured over sixteen feet in length, and weighed 2,500 ponnds. lts enormous stomach contaiiied the head, feet, and several other portions of a mulé, as well as two half-digested tunnyfish.