, 1875-05-01
GLEANINes

country l27,7l3 are women.
Mexico, during the year 1874,
exported s19,00o,0O0 in coin.
A New Hampshire grade Dur
ham COW has produced in 200
days four tons and 800 pounds of
milk.
In Paris there are IS, 900 school
children for whom no educational
accommodations are provided.
Despite acts of Parliament Eng
lish women and girls Of tender
years continue to labor in the
brick fields like slaves.
Mr.. Forsythe, NJ. P, says the
prospects of the woman suffrage
movement in England were never
brighter than they are now.
An eminent physician declares
that the decrease Of dyspepsia in
France isowing to the number of
apples eaten by the people.
The venerable Father Boehm is
the Oldest Methodist minister in
America. He resides in Jersey
City, and is nearly 100 years old.
Benton, Maine, enjoys the dis
tinction of being the first town in
the United States to electa School
Board composed entirely of wo-
men. s. ,.ii4sa ssaas M
California aspires to be 4 great
cotton manufacturing State, and
hopes to supply China with cot
ton goods more cheaply than Eng
land can. ai - lfe'aA
There are in circulation in Ne
vada $40 pieces that are from IS
to SO short. These pieces having
been split and a quantity Of gold
gouged out of the centre.
There is a stove in use now at
Newtown Friend Meeting House,
Delaware county, N. Y, which
bears date of 17l5, and is there.
fore in its one hundreth and sixti-
eth year.
President McMahon's wife re-
fuses to dress in Paris fashions.
She says the example Of disrepu-
table women is not more worthy Of
imitation in matters of dress than
in morals.
Georgia has Stunned the chief
difficulties Of usury laws BY enact
ing that as high as twelve per cent.
may be taken by special contract,
while seven is still to be under
stood as the legal rate in ordinary
cases.
A short-horned steer was re-
Gently butchered in Detroit that
weighed 400 pounds alive, and
yielded 5000 pounds Of dressed
beef. This Is believed to be the
largest animal ever slaughtered
for beef on this continent.
1t was 50 excessively cold in Je-
during the past winter
that for the first time IN the pres
snt generation ice was formed.
The Arabs having never seen ice
before, were sorely puzzled and
,ould not comprehend whyNwa-
Ter should change into glass;
A woman's temperance crusade
las been started in India. A band
If ladies' in Calcutta have been
holding religious services in the
thinking saloons frequented by
'ailors in Bow Bazar, meeting with
out little opposition from the sa-
oon keepers,
A tramp in q New Haven lock-
up was recently overheard =des-
,ribing to a crowd Of his brethren
he best places for lodgings and
iood between New York and Bos-
on, illustrating his remarks with
rough chart which he had pre-
Jared as the result Of his expert -
'nces.
On Feb. %, the pneumatic mail
ystem was opened for public use
n the city Of Vienna. BY this
method letters and packages not
exceeding two ounces in weight,
an be sent from one end Of the
.ity to the other-a distance of
bout eight miles-in something
ess than two seconds.
Five members Of the senior class
It Harvard intend forming q party
o travel on foot through Ireland,
France, SwitzeEland,
5ermany and Italy. They propose
0 start in June and be absent a
-ear. y .a3n'i-'9'.9
Irrigation is much talked about
low. Irrigation, however, cannot
,e made paying process, or ope-
alton, unless springs are -accessi-
lie at a sufficient height to flow
,ver the land to be irrigated. We
loubt whether water can be raised
~ art for the general purposes Of
and be done pro6tably.