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f1rrsrAsA has a debt Of s26s00O, GOO.
AFHEss IN Greece has302f churches.
THE firstscEiureb h organ built in Amer.
iss was buiitsin 1899. g& -
sTaE hog crop of the West for this
sessop is estimated at 5000, 600:
csWEsrs Tennessee is becoming profit
able hop country. ee
How to prevent accidents from petrol
eanl-don'f use it.
GIN. sPoPE writes that the India as on
the upper Missouri are threatening an
other war ss sssa - fsg eswI
MARS State Gazette reports the
Forked Deer high and on the rise at
Dyersburg
PARIs once more.has theatrical amuse-
msnts. and strangely enough the most
popular play just now isralled the Siege
0i Paris, zta aias 1k
AccoRpINa to the Missouri Republi-
can rfe -aFcz4 Of sfss-e e5sas,isss< " b ,ie=" ie
house. 10 81. Louis, Jest fear, did not ex
ceed s2.600.000 u sss.. 1s.ss
The New York papers. since the Huds
son River Railway accidents are con
denning the policy of constructing
wooden bridges on railways -
MISSOURI lauaents the fact that lis
State Prison, with 700 able bodied con
victs. has in the lasts years cost S23l,
600 lnoxe than it has earned.
TnE proposed flag Of the new.German
Empireis black white red and gold.
TnEEK are paid choirs in only about
oDc-sixth of the Washington churches
LETTERS from Florida speak Of ripe
oranges. open wipdows aud temperature
OF seventy seven degrees. s
BIsHop .Ciarksou, Of Nebraska, reports
that of the 75 600 Indians in the bounds
ofhis diocese, $4,000 attend religious
services He thinks the effort for their
civilization has been a grand success.
AaKANsAs points with pride to the
fact that she pays less internal revenue
tax than any other State.
TuE latest proposition forcotnbatting
the MorInons IS 10 give the Mormon
women the right TO vete.
IN Rhode Island a young lady at a
masquerade wore the skins OF % geese.
ITis proposed to create new Territory
ont of portion -ef Dakota and call II
Chfppewa. %
UP TO the last year when the British
naturalization laws were revised, for
eigners could not hold land in Englani.
THK Congress of the United States has
passed law granting pensions TO the
soldiers of the war of 1911.
CpNGREss ia asked to appropriate a
million and half Of dollars for the i'm
proYement of the Mississippi river between
the mouth of the Missouri and Cairo.
PEAcH PRospEcFs-Latest reports
from Southern Illinois, the great peach
orchard Of the West. represe ut the almost
total destruction of the buds by the ex
treme cold weather of December.
a GREAT INcREAsE-There are now
190churches and 100000 Roman Catho
lies in Rhode Island and Connecticut
where, 6fty years ago, there were but
three families of Romauists
DEAD Cock IN THE PrT.-Mr Hoar':
National Educatio nal bill issdead beyond
resurrection. There is no prospect Of a
morning hour during the remainder o.
the session, and otherwise it cannot be
reached atssr ts e
JUDoE Trimble is untiring in his ex
ertions for Paducah. II still hopes tC
secure from Congress an appropriation
for the erection of a building as a United
States Court. Postofiee. Custom House
etc. The cost is estimated at $500. 600
THE coiored convention in NashvilI
resolved that the colored children mus
-losk 10 the Federal Government for tn
means of education. e H -
BIsHoP Cummins is coming to Bowl
ing Cream in few weeks. He is grea
aud good mana
They are talking ofin:roducing palae
sstreet cars in some of the Eastern cite.
The coming vehicle ia to be lighted b
gar, heated by steam, and run by con
preesed air. h
PESssYLvAN1A in the last ten year
gained more in population than any othe
Ststo in the Union except Illinois. Th
latter gained 900, 600; the former GOO
000 and more. What is remarkable i
the case Of Pennsy lvania is that ever
county in the State made gain.
SECRET OF CoMFoRr.-As sometime
small evils, like invisible insects, infic
pains. and a single hair may stop vas
machine, the chief secret of comfort lie
Ia not suffering trifles to yex one, but i
prudently eultiTating an rndergrogth o
small pleasures, since very few great ones
slasi as af
THE estimates based on the return
made to the Agricultural Bureau q
Raehington are acknowledged on a
sides as the most correct data We have .
TO the crops. From these, so far as y,
made public, it appears that an area ,
two millions more acres was planted wit
corn in 1870 than in 1869, when the ere
was little more than it Was ten years b
fore-in 1859.
Cnrpet-Baggers From Good Al
ttsortfy.
petroleum. y.Nasby, one Of the lea
: lag apostles Of Radicalism, in his .le