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/ clever anu well recommended saleswomcn
in Berlin get fifty dollars. year and board.
Neither of the four English fold marsbals
just appointed an under eighty years of age.
The King Of the Netherlands has discovered
a method Of preventing ministerial crisis tie
makes his cabinet perpetual.
The infant of poor flower woman died on
its mothers arm while sho was pcddling her
boquets on the streets. of London, starved to
death.
According to the new army pay list of the
North German Confederation, second licuten-
ants get $500 year, first licutcnants $500,
and captains $500.
1t is represented by knowing fnunciers that
the production Of cotton in Brazil, India and
Egypt, will be larger than ever the coming
year.
In Paris the latest novelty produced by the
cold weather is announced to bca nose protcc-
tor lined with fnr
at Tuns one hundred persons are dying
daily Of hunger. The foreign residents do all
that they can, but, after providing for the Eu-
rcpcan poor, little is left for the wrctchcd ma
tivcs.
The President has approved the bill pro
viding for the distribution among the people of
the South Of the accumulated dcsicltcd vc-
getablcs and preserved meats which are not re-
quircd for the use OF the army.
Tho Toronto militia were terribly frightened
the other day by finding piece of iron stuck
through the door Of the old fort, nnd mmcdi-
ately the guard was doubled, under apprchcn-
sion that the Fepians were coming by telc-
gragh. ,.rs, .
The population suffering from, famine in
East PRUSSIA is said to number 100000 aud
tho Bavarian Consul at Lyons has published
an appeal to the Charity of the Germans in
that city on their behalf
Ono ofthc arches of the underground rail
way of I.ondon,it is said, forms the floor of a
kitchen above It was constructed without
cracking the walls Of the house wherein the
kitchen is situated.
The prussian Legislative Chambers propose
to raise loan of $50, 600 900, for the construc-
tion of railways i'll Eastern Prussia One
cause Of the present distress in that PROVINCE
is said to be the great lack Of roads and ether
means Of communication.
The Greek Government has recently d.fn-
itely declared its accession to the Monetary
Convention concluded between France, Italy,
Belgium and Switzerland, by which the French
five-franc piece is to be made the bases of
decimal system of money.
Coasting or sliding down hill on slcds is
said to be thepresont agony at Montreal only
the Canadians call it "Toboganing" from 'To-
bogan," their name for sled y great num-
her of people in all parts Of America enjoy this
cxhilrating sport every Winter.
The King of Naples is reported just now to
nc in a bad way in Rome, being reduced to the
necessity of selling portion of his Quees's da-
monds The jewels have been purchased b. a
Roman lady. The cx-King spends most of his
timo Mt the gaming table @
Lord Ranelagh, British noblcmah, takes
very dosponding view of the state OF the Eng
lish volunteer force. He calls it shan"
"One hundred and eighty thousand or two
hundred thousand men in battalion, without
administrative stafs for its command or supply
of any Sort is" he remarks, IA mere crowd of
coated playthings.'
Letters from Killarney say that tho clergy
of that town, who refused to shy mass for the
souls Of Allen I4arkin and Gould who were
executed at Manchester have ceased to receive
any money from their parshioncrs, who refuse
to contribute to their support OF that of the
church
The Melbourne Argus speaks of plague of
sand flies with which many parts of the country
has been afflicted. The atmosphere has in
large districts been loaded with these insects,
which have attacked the cattle horses and
goats in such myriads as to drive the poor ami
mails almost distracted
In New Orleans the newspapers say the
people are in state of excitement on the sub
joct of rents. They want them for the coming
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