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Of General Interest.

Dr. McGlynn came near being appointed bishop of Pittsburg at one time.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will celebrate their silver wedding next year

Some unpublished letters written by Charles Dickens are in the hands of the printer.

Mr. Irvings friends day that the actor's profits for the past year will not fall short of $100,000.

Robert T. Lincoln is building house for himself on Lake Drive, near Lincoln park, in Chicago.

Miss Mary Anderson contradicts the report that she would marry Forbes Robertson, the actor.

Buffalo Bill and his entire troop of Indians attended church the other day in full war paint.

London has a police army of 13,819 men. The chief has a salary of $10,500 a year.

The wheat harvest in Minnesot and Dakota, now in progress promises a fair yield

A convention of the society of American florists is to be held in Chicago August 16.

Poisonous chemicals have been detected in the coloring of necties and the sweatbands of hats.

The new hotel to be built in Baltimore by Robert [Clairett?] will be seven stories high and cost $500,000.

During the recent Indian raid in Arizona the Apached traveled fifteen miles on tiptoe to hide their trial.

Mr.Woodhouse of Binghampton. N. Y., has recovered 4300 damages from a man a man who persisted in calling him Mr.Woodshed.

Forty years ago Robert Banner was foreman of the New York Evening Mirror at $18 per week. Today he is worth $2,000000.

Rose Coghtan spends her summer on her farm near yonkers, and gets a beautiful tan on her face by riding a mowing machine in the hayfield.

Gov. Rusk of Wisconson, is one of the strongest men in the country. Tom Nichol said of him the other day: "[?] can suspend a thousand pounds from his shoulders and walk around with as easily as I could with twenty pounds."

Philadelphia is to have [theatre?] entirely for [?] and for pupils who are studying for the stage. Mr. George Holland the actor is at the head pf the enterprise and is backed by two rich Philadelphians.

Phillip Henson, of Corinth, Miss has probably the longest beard of any male biped in the world. Henson is a man sixty years of age, six feet two ad, and when he stands erect his beard touches the ground.