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NEW-YORK CITY. Marketmen are now one vast oleaginous smile. There are 1,336 insane persons on Blackwell's Island. New brooches have black heads on a background of cardinal red. There was a slight flurry in wheat and a decided flurry of snow yesterday. Floating ice was seen for the first time this season in the East River yesterday. Sweet oranges are now sold by street venders. Purchasers call them bitter-sweet. One thousand sleighs passed through the Fifthave. entrance to the Park, Thursday. A few days since the Harlem boats commenced running on the new Winter time table. New gossamer waterproofs are so light that one can be rolled up and carried in the pocket. Even the chimes that rang from the terrace on Machinery Hall are coming to New-York. Mrs. A. T. Stewart is the purchaser. The tendency? of "mediumistic spiritism" is to crowd the police stations on a Saturday night with a liberal assortment of battered mediums. Commodore Vanderbilt was troubled yesterday by rheumatic pains in his limbs, which made him very restless throughout the day and evening. The steamship Rhein is the only one of the Enropean fleet sailing to-day. all of the others having arrived too late to sail to-day, or being still due. The teachers in the public schools were in attendance at the offices of the Board Education yesterday making their reports and receiving their pay. English tourists note the absence of beggars in sevthis country: were they to take a constitutional 17 on eral up-town streets their opinions might be modified. In a Spring-st. window is a log cabin made of sansage, with furniture made of headcheese. A vivid imagina tion may even detect traces of tain bark OB the miniature legs. Practical studies in shades, shadows. and permay be made on Sixthave, between Fourth and spective Twelfth-sts., as these blocks are given up entirely to colored people. The Gold Exchange Bank. it is stated, will close its business at an early day, now that it has been decided by the Gold Exchange to make its daily settlements through some other bank. The price of chiccory is doomed to a speedy fall. and coffee will cease to be a laxury to the average tramp-a newline of British steamers is announced to run between this city and Brazilian ports. The Christmas exercises at St. Vincent's Home for Boys, Nos. 53 and Warren-st. will consist of religious services in the chapel, a distribution of clothing, and a dianer given to over 200 children. Church fairs have been comparative failures this season. Economical people prefer to contribute the conventional mite for the heathen in Africa rather than hazard $10 in the orthodox grab-bag. Samuel Sloan, President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and the Michigan Central Railroads, was yesterday elected President of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad Company. A down-town lunch club, on the plan of the City Crub in London, will ROOD be started. The project is discussed with great anction by the gentlemen of elegant leisure ho frequent the City Hall Park on pleasant days. The doors of down-town restaurants are surrounded by hungry-looking vagrants, who evidently belong to that class of society 80 aptly described by the French cynic as those who have more appetites than dinners. Condensed Sunday-school story: An honest policeman finds $216 on Mulberry-st. discovers the owner. a poor German woman, who has been saving the money for two years to bring her relatives from the Fatherland, returns the bills and receives a blessing. Three 20-ruch columbiads at the navy-yard have been christened by the appropriate names of Satan, Luci. fer, and Moloch. If brought to bear upon one, they would doubtless prove as fatal as that Columbiad of a larger bore -Joel Barlow's epic. The Commissioner of Public Works has directed the Croton Water Inspectors to wear their badges on the outside of the coat in consequence of reports that eak-thieves have visited dwellings, during the past week, representing themselves to be inspectors. Scene at the milk trial yesterday: Dr. Doremus, jr., trying to extract a cork from a bottle of dubious milk with small penknife. Deeply interested jaryman on a back scat The rises and offers a corkscrew to the tile-holding chemist. dignity of bench and bar temporarily suspended. The Post-Office clerks will soon have a sufficient stock of holiday goods to start a fancy store. Their ingenuity in deciphering illegible addresses is well known, but limit a was reached yesterday, when a calico dress, inclosed in mutilated newspaper W rapper, was found in a drop box. Old boys" feel a thrill of college enthusiasm as they hear the squads of young men from the North River ferres marching through Washington-square and University. place in the morning singing college choruses at the top of their voices as they wend their way to the rocitation rooms. Deputy Controller Storrs yesterday furnished the following statement of warrants signed recently to satisfy judgments against the city By Controller Green, 38 warrauts. amounting to 60: by Controller Kelly, 20 warrants, amounting to $33,521.73 making in all $171,130 33. The payments were made on the advice of the Corporation Counsel. The cartmen who collect ashes in the Ninth, Thirteenth, and Sixteenth Wards have been wont. on cold nights, to sit by their tiresides and read the English classics, like Dickens's 'Golden Dustman the ash-barrels on their routes and the measure of the Street Commissioner's wrath both be. came full last Monday night, when the men were all discharged. The boys of the Rivington Street Lodging-house. through the bounty of Major Philip Schuyler, will enjoy a Christmas dinner at m., on Monday. Another gift of the same friend of the institution is a quantity of red flannel to be made into shirts for the boys. This, with gifts from other friends will enable the superintendent to present every boy in the institution with a warm flann. shirt 88 a Christmas gift. The students of the School of Mines, Columbia College. gave their annual reception last evening. The tendance of invited guests was large despite the unfavorable weather. The large hall of the college, from which the desks and tables had been removed, was tastefully decorated with flags and evergreens and was used for dancing, in which pastime the students show that devotion to science had not impaired their relish for pleasure. BROOKLYN. The holiday vacation in the public schools began yesterday, and will continué until Jan. 3. John H. McKay, a young man of a respectable family in the Eastern District, was sentenced by Judge Moore to two years in the Penitentiary for bigamy Maggie Sloan, a little girl 4 years old, living at No. 396 Warren-st., fell ou a heated stove in her home last evening, and her clothes catching fire she was Intally burned and died an hour afterward. On Thanksgiving Day attention was called in the columns of THE TEIBUNE and other morning papers to a case of extreme destitution on Fulton-st. Between $300 and $400 has since been sent in small sums for the relief of the suffering family. The jury awarded 31,625 in the Court of Sessions yesterday to Dantel Leahy, for injuries received from a fall from the masthead of a lighter, with rotten rigging, belonging to William P. Thompson Five per cent allowance was added