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STARBEAMS.

New coins are to be issued in England in honor of the Queen's jubilee.

George Augustus Sala no longer writes for the London Illustrated News. He and the News had a falling out.

A New York paper thinks the pretty names of the city are Mrs. Bliss, Mrs. Love, Mrs. Sweet and Mrs. Darling.

Albert Sully, the rich railroad man, gave his favorite niece fifty thousand dollars the other day when she graduated.

News comes by the way of New York that Wichita has a population of thirty-five thousand. The [Eagle?] will verify the statement.

Will Kentucky erect a monument to Craig [Tolliver?], the martyred hero of Rowan county? He was popular, but almost too daring.

The mormons want to come into the union. Congress will insist that before admission, mormons should moderate their matrimony.

Mrs. Cleveland wears No. 5 shoes for which she pays five dollars per pair. Such is the information given out by her shoe dealer in Washington.

One of the sons of the late Thurlow Weed is going to marry the wealthy Miss Morris of New Orleans. Thus it is that the troubles of the late war are being healed.

Anna Dickinson, her friends learn with pleasure, is recovering from a severe illness. Her failure on the stage will be regretted, but her efforts on the platform will never be forgotten.

The English sparrows do a great amount of work. When the tower of a church in Illinois had been cleaned out it was found that enough hay had been carried in by those little workers to fill a wagon box full.

Kate Field is going to sail for Alaska. She will pass the summer there. By the way, what is the reason Alaska should not become the great summer resort? It is cool and not far away, and then it is American soil.

If General Butler has any silverware concealed about him, there will be no objection raised if he would return the same. The general always resents any such imputations and would no dobut consent to an investigation.

Some gossip who pretends to know something of the President's cash book says he is saving thirty-five thousand dollars per year out of his salary He is as prudent of his own money as he has always been careful of the state interest.

It is not true that the man who does not "touch a drop" is a milksop. In these days of frequent temptation it requires more stamina of character to resist temptation than it does to yield and then fight off the danger of excesses of the cup.

Of course Mr. Blaine is too much of a statesman to neglect to call on Buffalo Bill and to go to see the "Wild West" show. If he is well received by Buffalo Bill, his popularity will be assured at once in London. The act would also render him popular with frontier men.

Jake Sharpe's experience in the bribery business has not been satisfactory. His failure to get away with the [swag?] undetected was a [great?] [inconveniance?] and disappointment to him. His sorry outcome may serve to remind aldermen and others that honesty is the best policy.

Macaulay was a Scotchman and never appreciated a practical joke and was even greatly shocked when the genial Thackeray proposed to exchange identity with him for the purpose of an interview. It probably never occurred to the historian of England and the man of resounding phrases that there was anybody else on the planet quite equal to himself.

Ability in the old world seems to have triumphed over prejudice against color. At least this is true in the case of Fred Douglas. He recently [said?]. "I have traveled through most of the countries of Europe, and whenever I am in the cars, in the theatres, in the ball rooms, anywhere in fact, I find that I am treated always with courtesy and not rarely with distinguished consideration As far as I can see a man is judged over here without any regard to the color of his hair, or his eyes, or his skin."