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- Laat Suuday eveuiug the Kev. Haroourt, of Jersey City, pmachad on ' The iMrk Siile of Jersey City Life." H ilotailed his visit to a hospital ml the yhiüitly appearauce of the uukowu dead, dexcnbe the antics of threo brother with the "jim jams," nud avo the physician's aatiuraiuc that, despite their promisn8, they would uo into thu tirnt rum shop they met after leaving the hoapital." The Rev. apeaker was uot very coruplituoutnrv to the whisky of Jerauy City. He u : " It is very dangerous to take our whisky in this city. It is composed ot pure chemicaU- whisky that uevor aaw a dintillery. Two glaeses of it are gure doath or delirium tremen. Artemus W ui tiiiui alter lie had swallowed a glass of our whisky that he thought hv had swallowed a ga.s-lampt and I don't wonder at it." - Prut Hemiequin advine us that ex-Gov. HeuürickB wiil be accompanied to this oity by Mr. Öpruille Hratieu, oi Iudianapolis, a young gentlonian wlio sonip moutht ao bore off the prizes on tlio Brilltth Trainiugahip Worcester, over the iievl of the tcions of uobihty who were hi8 oompetitor. On his nrrival at New York hú modal were xlnbifnd t Tittaiiy', nnd ful] report of his honors ao gallautly won were given iu the daily papers. Mr. il. alo informs us that young Braden 1.1 the only American over admittod to the Worceiter. Hennequin auii Braden came home trom Lurope by the ame steamer, which travelini; acqaHÍntHiic anl friwvlthip led tv tl vrKnt visit. L- According to Prof. Tyler souie of the tnoit popular poeU and prosewriters of this s;eueration are lineal deaceudant of Aune lir.aiiHtreet, New Kngland'B early poot aiui "peerleM gentlewoman," including "thu GbHiminge, the Buokminsters, Klizu B. Lúe, Hitíhard H. Dana the poet, Richard H. Pana the proae-writer, Wendell Phillips.and Oliver Wendell Holme." A conñrmation oi the tnte aayinKi " Blood teil." - We take pleasure iu callin attvntion to the prospectus of the Detroit Freo Prett. The daily edition is a thoroughly hvu paper in all ita departments, while sound on the great political questions of the day. The weekly edition is a model family paper, valuable to the farmer, the mcrchant, the mechanio, and the general reader. The Vree Pret ud the AbOU8 go excellently well tog?thtr. See "club' list. - Wanhtenaw County sent 6 boys to the Reform School at Lansing during the fiscal vear euding Sept. 30, 1878, and lias delegated 86 boys to that matitution siuoe lts opening, Sept. 2, 1866. The nuinher of admissiou tu the institutiou for the yoar were 166, and the whole uumber yice the school wai opeiied, a month more tlmii twelve yean, 2,010, - John Raudolph, of Koanoice, didn't believe in the punty of the politici ol his day or in the skill of the physicians, for he said, "It electioneenng were allowed in lieaven it would corrupt the angels ;" and when one of hiB uegroes had died before a pliysiciau could be called, "Theuthe poor fellow had fair ohauce and died a uatuntí deatb' - A series ol Faruwr' Iustitutea has been appointed by tin State Board OÍ Agricultura to be held as follows : At Charlotte, Jan. 13, U; at Flint, Jan 16, 17; at Howoll, Jan. 20, 21 ; at Ceutreville, Jau. 23, 24 ; at Dowagiac, Jan. 28, 29 ; aud at Bay Oity, Feb. 4, u. Lecturers will be detailed trom the Agricultura! College. - Ou a school oennus of the Lanmng acbool district the population ia entitnatAd at S.óOO, - or4to 1. Au estímate of trie poiulutiou Ol the Ann Arbor district on the9ame Iihsíb uuld give a population of 9,792, -or about 9,000 for the city proper. Quess that figure m a little large. - Gtoorge Henry Lewes, the " eminent vrritor whust desth was recorded in a Loudon disputen dated üec. 2, was the hosbnnd oi tlmt distiuguifhed novolist " fieorge Eliut, nee Manan Eran. Mr. I.cw - iras born 111 Lun don, April 18, 1817. - One of the special cau.ien for thankfultiefx enumerateil by the N. Y. Sun, iu it Uxut; oi Nov. 28, w:is the fact that "Hayos aytminifitratiüu is one year nearer its close."