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The N»rthern Advertiser informs its readers that arrangements ars shortly to be mads for commencing the work of opening op the Kaihu bashes. Tne Union Sash and Poor Company alone will require to draw about a million feat per month from their trashes, and the Bailway Company will pro- bably bring out afcout half . that quantity from their own forests later on, The new evening London halfpenny paper, the Star, has made a fairly geod beginning. Upward of 140,000 papers were sold on the first d&y. The journal is oonduoted very inuoh'eri" the lines of American papers— that is, it contains little aotual news, but a good . deal of personal obit chat and gossip, At the annual ball of the Syndical Chamber oi Paris Tailors, most of the men who, by their deaigaa, decide what shall be worn and what shall be regarded aa out ef fashion, trore it is true, tail coats, but they also wore white waistcoats, knee breeohes, and black •gilk utOQkingg. . There were even some who donned the eky-blue tail coat, white silk ' Ireeohes, and blue stocking. Madame Cosyn, am ex-oantinier, who went through the campaign of 1870 with the Foreign Legien, made a pilgrimage to Rome on foot im order to be present at the Pope's Jubilee. She is*6o years old, but nevertheless Started from Lillie om September 25 last, arriving in the Eternal City on November ■ 29. She became so fatigued owing to her additional' pilgrimage to the Shrine of Lpretto that she was obliged to enter an hospital in Eome. On her recovery, she was Beat baok t» Franoe by the Ambassador of the Republic.
