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trs aRs n. 10 item IT. ttne arseye y G ar
Ms eahniht"t Whch s,'.''atilcr comes 10 "s, 10
81: Duts!'er ras Va fesailsd' ani, + answer 70
nocah, said thcy Woulu sell grate-bars atb
| eenis. .,,...,
uua,a ane I'm, ,Inafnan.Afn yon =, manaiacsufcr Of
~, roiG 81 pnS y aai Sx. .as' xn ,s,,d ,ro
III A'-Yes.
| hR. :. KfitF,
| plumber, was next aske! to testify. His eK-.
am,natIon I2 proxee,lcd a. follows: .,
| Q.-Whnt would you scll pipe fort A.-11lkc
togcs AZ can for II, same as hir. Hogan.
| q;-what DO you buy pipe ati AL buy IL
That ~ t a ss II tnr v wl1ss s
| Well, from 40 to ~ oil.
Q-What Woul.i you consider fafr profit II
I yon had thc pIpo IN a1'c store and you sold to
cnstomer wllo came tor ~ Al It was COOL
This va, nj that VA required Of Mr. Keiiy.
| err Hills.
tcn,e he a. Inrt ,io9 ~" want Y sa at
you. There has bccst Eool deal said al,out tho
financial condition Of the county being better
than Tint Of the city, and that We ought 70 bc
ahle ta buy stu0 cheaper than tho city. 1haye
and you viii sec what tler gos them for. We
ought to 10 able to buy at as eood rates ms the
city.
Discounts Of IS to GO per cent were allowed III
those btlla. =
alr. Schmidt (altcr casting his eye over tho
| itcns}--That is different thug. The Board Of
! PMmhlc M Wo!ka does the 1ohhng. ,
H. e S,,. ns va1 t tnsy osy m.sts psrS,
waste on Their hnnda. II otlc of tbose things
The ctairma,,-lt 2 The eamo way with us.
IL ~nat We got from hogan burst we nave them
Mr.. Hogan al this paint handcd In several Ict-
tcrs from parties ~ the trade TO s'lnw, that lie
!iatl acaIt .lf!y Will te coulty ln tl'ts matter;
tnt Il wa fee their esto @ 70 ,e % .asrs md
n limos no easo 10 alctato tnc ptlcss tncy snonla
cnaIge 70 customeff. nncn uealcT put ~ tne
Torx amd nut 10 wassant u. 1,o atE,h snouau
oe in.a1s sacHt % = eover ~ tgs'iSss 3 i,0 ot
- sa! tna. y VIZ not eustoh'at5 ios usa.c!a 70
E,xe dlsess 20 81 Sstomess, & ana stax M snc{ we're
iany ensn.e1 f 70 a.l thes haade a. tho extreme
| Alr. L. Wolf stated TINT they ttM not DO bust
parties desi5t@g goods to tie pia!n6eIs: yalsr
~ I e9se.a.lo NIKE w1 ~ ines uepf''e tc PLUMP
In reply t. NJ conly, the Chairman 1, said the
month. He thcn called d attention to a,7oo
At flve cents, which would have cost two and
! o1'c-ialf centa to purchase of the manufnc-
turers.
AZ. sShmdt-That Is not 90. ..
| parties say who manufacture them. =. - j..
got grate-bass, and paid tlse repts.
tIsc Ist iS 5 9ey stn 70 hS c1 c
| IIalt ron Eune with mo you would llave heard
| them also. 1,ut you refused to go. md n,n
bringing back what tLcy satl. On that item
Mr. Con1y-1 supposed Grams Brothers, or
hero today. II ths Chair reeoliect., M the charge
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HOW he LOST HIS DAMAGES.
Htfrri& ktre ELx.s

toon after dinner Thursday citizen Of Third
aaFest entered lawYer's office aud began:
MY wtte has been bitten BY dog"
"doodl" replied tho lawyer. "You must
elatm damages 10 ths sum Of $500"
eyes; she was bitten three tl1nea by the
brute" continue! tho husband, "and Of course
70 go to bed and stay there for at least = week.
Have her Kroah and take OIL, and suffer great
pain and distress. sud call In tho neighbors to
witness her sutiertnRs. We'll just pake tho
Tho man left In o Joyful frame Of mind, and
yesterday ho came back. locking sorowfui.
~ No use trytng,' sadly said he, shaking hls
fnt out that the dog wasn't mad, aud tl1e,i s,o
startol out to iuake twenty-tKo Gala tlia after
noon, and guess VIC hayen't got case"
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CITY nEAL a,sTATG;.

T,OH aALE-s,E rESr-Twn Sfw Hl.IcE resi-.
St1sr1 n S1tn t',!'ion; 'Gt1;;nn sio tn,,"@
40 LaAalle.st.
FUR sALE-A FURNISHED, RESIDENCE. WITH
btrn 1f lot. Chinn PARK, wp1tll tUJ; -, rI
csAh Will tny It. AddreM 50. Fultnn.s..
12Dn sA1E-TwO.sTnnY FRAME ,Hf5TaE, 8
rooms. pitnatd lt7 isrk.av.. near ifncnir.st. on
leased ct6un6 lease ~ yclfy; rflcc a. m halt
ca.h, balance to sat II per ccnt. Inquire on prem
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i 1lh 3r ) o'csex ?. IL.
, 1877-02-03

ftEEAT UAE;AlSs IN ELEGANT FAELOI: AND
sLa turu!tass; aandstne saLior sut piestA
kxi We rr1nCs stuck 13aEe tv9n fur altsta-
k4paA u. 7. uAlsIlH. Isl 6tal9At.
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had Ilogan's bills handed to bin by Afr.
3el.nldt, who usked II he considered tue items
The Charman-I hare masia the charge that
tho blll IL so per cent aborG the market value.
What could VIZ buy the gooIa elsewhere for.
VIII you state whit diseount you would have
SLOWED thv county it tho gools had been
III. Day.-l might have allowed from rs to
u psr ccus discount. It depends on clrcum.
stances.
allowed such percentage IT We csme aud took It
away from your storet
Ayes, sir.
Tis Chairman n-Ih!. va. taken away from the
Mr: sehn1idt-Tes, Gut the county didn't buy
Ths Chairmsn-Wc,l, he charged for II.
Nr. Sehmidt-llssn'I 10 to get something for
III
Nj; 4 Mog.a ito parlsrYou mean for essht
q oM&eat ;&: ;uppo:9g tasy d!n,. % Pay . sssh ard
i would regulate it accordingly:
po1ass d On .s,y yeI e.e u5a an Ss 70 sGr
after ehe nonsy, would you consider thts {Ee-
:The eC4aifman-rhas Il begging tho question
ts Lat me put i n ltls as.sns S,,' shaPs
county for on thlty day1' t1Iuea A.-Well,
should probably make IS per cent discount.
Mr.. sclimidt-Rhat would you charge for
stttstsss ssnta 'DyeSy np ordered 'st' A-FonF
Thc chaif,aan7po you manufacture CRATE
Q.-What 10 you pay The Manufacturers for
bars = general thtnsa A--rhree aid threo
The Chairman handed 4 communication from
T. C. Boyd to tho clerk to read. II was sepctI-
ton u fhat gcntlcusaa's ola proposition to 10
the plumbing aud gas-attiug VI the rounty for
Mi ~ " N0fr}1 tYnA rttnr,vrU HH
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I1UEN1TuiiE- CAKli1AGES AND MERCHANDISE
II tlored a. uwEst t4ieA Ia hTep pfVuf N&febuuA lul
West Moasuc-si. uolvs a1sAnrsI " any amount.
>.roHAGE FOL! MENCIiASDisE FUnSrTFRE.
9 ete-. uu ks.t Ms:hinxtun.M clean md tAly platai
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The Effects of HalIucinatiOn.

1t is curious to note the slight point
upon which human hangs in the bal
ance of reason. Persons having all the
appearance of perfect sanity have been
known as suddenly as flash, to develop
traits of lunacy. In other instances, a
chance assumption of rank, kept up
from day to day, has marked veritable
belief. The fiction worked upon the
brain until it became a fact, most diff
cult to reconcile with hallucination.
A remarkable instance of such imag-
ination is recorded in the life of Curran,
the Irish barrister, who with his gay
companions, was in the habit of spend
a day in the Dalkey Islands, and indulg-
ing in the frolic of electing King of
Dalkey and the adjacent Islandsw A
gentleman of middle station in life, a
genial, whole-souled, and convivial man,
was elected to fill the throne. He en-
tered into the joke and enjoyed the
pastime. A journal was kept called the
Dalkey Gazette, in which all public
proceedings were recorded, and which
was source of constant amusement to
its supporters. But at length the mock
pageantry, the affected loyalty and as
sumed homage began to tell upon and
ex ite the Imagination of King John,'
as he was styled. Fiction became real
ity and he fancied himself "every inch
King" His family and friends, in dis
may and grief saw the delusion assume
such hold upon him that nothing could
shake it. He spoke on no other subject
save his Kingdom and its government
and delighted to dwell on the variou:
projects he had formed for the benefit ot
his people He never could divest him
self of his regal pomp, and exacted the
utmost Difference to his royal authority
| When his last hours drew nigh no re
turning CLEANS of reason broke upon hi
mind; to the moment of his death h,
believed himself King, and all hi
cares were for his subjects. He spok'
in high terms of the officers of his mimic
court, recommending the care of hi
kingdom to them until his successor wa
chosen, and demeaned himself with
dignifed calmness well becoming tn
last hours of a puissant monarch. Whe
he came to relinquish his crown, he sal
with tears: 81 leave it to my people
whom l have so loved" His feeling
were gratiied, up to his death, b
thinking of the good of his fellow-cre;
lures, which seemed, in his madness s
, in his saner life, to be a prominent featul
) of his disposition.
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CENSUS OF THE WORLD IN 1876.

CENSUS OF THE WORLD IN 1876.
The London Times recently published
an abstract of an account of the popula-
ton of the world, annually prepared by
Drs. Behn and Wagner, and published by
Perthes, from which it appears that the
population in 1876 may be taken at l.,
1917, 900 of whom nearly one-fifth, or
309,17S,O00 reside in Europe, and prob
ably 400, 100000, or less than onezthird,
belong to the European civilizations.
Four-sevenths of the worlds people, or
824, 600, 900, reside in Asia, and half of
these are Chinese.
The population of America, natives in
cluded, in both divisions of the continent,
is only 85,O00,O00, of which we imagine
about half are pure blooded European
descent. The population of Africa, ar
rived at, of course, by more or less care
full guessing, is set down at 199, 900, 900,
of whom scarcely one per centum can be
fairly set down as civilized men, and a
little more than ten per centum are semi
civilized.
The Turkish Empire is estimated at
46, ,0O0,0 900, including 10000, ,OO0in Egypt
and its dependencies, with Tunis and
Tripoli; but the population in Europe is
only 100000, and in Asia $4,000, 1000.
Half the European population of Turkey
at least is Bulgarians, and if we add the
Greeks and Sclaves we shall find that the
dominant class does not exceed one-fourth
of the whole, to whom the other three
fourths are sacrificed.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR.

ASr. PETERSBURG dispatch says the Rus
slams from Sistova made an assault in heavy
force upon and captured Nikopolis on
July 16.
THE Porte officially declares that the Rus
slams have burned alive the inhabitants of
Jonis, near Tirn'ova, who had taken refuge
in a mosque.
TwENTY-THREE- members of the leading
Kurdish families, inhabiting the Russian
territory, have been court martialed and
hanged by the order of General Melikof:
THE Turks seem to be laboring under the
notion that by dismissing their commanders
and Minister of War, and courtmartialing
the Mayors of the captured towns, they can
stay the Russian advance. The tactics have
not succeeded well.
WE gather from a few rambling remarks
of the Earl of Derby that it is the purpose of
the English Government to preserve a
passive attitude until the two combatants in
the East have exhausted each other with
fighting, and then step in, fresh and vigorous,
to dictate the terms of settlement.
THE British Consuls in Bulgaria confirm
the reported atrocities committed upon the
Mussulman population by Bulgarians in
Khanbagaz defle. Old and young were
massacred without remorse, while women
and girls were terribly mutilated. The
Porte charges the Cossacks with sacking vii
lagos near Rustchuk, numbering males and
violating females.
A CORRESPONDENT at Turnu Magurelli,
who processes to have been an eye witness
of a portion of the operations by which the
Russians surrounded Nikopolis, and cut off
the retreat of the garrison, says: " The
garrison of six thousand men and forty guns
surrendered to the Russians, who also took
prisoners Hassan and Achmet Pashas, COM
manding the garrison, and took two moni-
tors" All other accounts represent that
the Turks evacuated Nikopolis before the
Russians entered the town. A Simnitza
special particularly reports that they an
aged with no little skill to carry off forty
guus, which constituted the armament of
the fortress.
FROM Tirnova, July II, we learn that
General Jourka, with an advance guard of
cavalry, infantry and artillery, has crossed
the Balkans. On July IA, he surprised and
defeated the Turkish battalion which
guarded the outlet of the pass near the vii
lage of Khankhoi. General Jourka is now
July ~ marching upon Kasanlik, in the
rear of the enemy, who occupy the fortified
Shipka defle. Two Satrias of Cossacks
have arrived at Yeni Sagera and cut the
telegraph between that place and Nanigagra
and Kloro. On Sunday an engagement was
fought near the village of Orzazare, between
a Cossack force and some detachments of
Bashi-Bazouks and Circassians, supported
by Turkish infantry. The enemy held their
ground until the arrival of the dragons and
a battery of artillery sent by General Jourka
On perceiving the approach of these re-en-
forcements, the Turks fed. A flag, several
standard bearers, and quantity of arms
xrara anturad
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TURNING A DESERT INTO A SEA.

Scientific opinion in France is by no
means unanimous as to the desirability
of creating an inland sea in Algeria,
after the project brought forward by
Captain Roudaire, who has been
strongly supported by M. de Lesseps.
NJ. Dumas, the eminent chemist, and
M. Daubree, have urged several OBJ
jections to the scheme, and they agree
with M. Naudin, who read a paper on
the subject at the last meeting of the
Academy of Sciences, that its sanitary
effects would be deplorable. They are
all three of opinion that to fill the shall
low basins of the region which it is pro-
posed to convert into a sea with salt
water would be equivalent to repro
ducing in Algeria all the worst features
of the Tuscan and Pontine marshes.
Captain Roudaire admits that even in
the center there would not be more than
eighty feet of water, and the whole
coast line would have so little water
that it would be little better than q
sand bank, with an admixture of salt
and fresh water, upon which the strong
solar light and tropical heat would acr
in the most deleterious manner for two
thirds of the year, causing a rapid de
composition of organic matter, ant
spreading contagion for miles in ever.
direction. NJ. Naudin denies that Their
is any similarity between this distric
and Egypt, the climate of which coun
try has been much improved by tn
creation of the Suez Canal and tn
plantation of trees; for, according t
him, while Egypt lies between two seas
and is traversed by an immense river
which has periodical overfows, tn
Algerian district is far from the sea an
is bounded by arid deserts. M. Naudi
believes that the real remedy for in
proving this, the worst region in Afric'
will prove to be in the planting of tree
the Australian eucalyptus, if it ca
be made to grow, or, failing that, th
ordinary trees and shrubs of tt
. country.
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M. Theirs.

M. Thiers "at home" in the new
palace built for him by the government
in place of the house destroyed by the
Communists, is sketched at length in the
London World NJ. Thiers descends
from Marseillaise family of cloth mer-
chants, who were ruined by the first
Revolution. Fate owed the family some
compensation and made the son the sue
cessful historian of the event which
wrecked their fortunes. Fame in letters
and in craftsmanship, and wealth also, has
come to NJ. Thiers out of the throes and
convulsions of revolution; and he is now
in his old age securing superb retreat,
covered with honors, consulted by kings;
albeit ex-President, with more influence
over political events than the great gend-
arme at the Elysee, because he has always
been cunning enough to avoid the re-
sponsibility of the revolution he helped
to make, and has managed to re-appear
again and again as at once the champion
of freedom and society. In 1920 the
Academy of AK offered prize for
panegyric on Vauvenargues. Thierss
paper was deemed the best; but the ma
iority of the Judges being royalists, and
| the writer being regarded as a Jacobin,
| the competition was declared to be ad-
journed to the following year. The
Judges had their match in Adolphe
Thiers He not only sent in his original
paper a second time, but he wrote an
other, which he caused to be posted in
Paris in order to hide the authorship
effectually. This new paper gained the
first prize, and the old one the second.
1t was on this success he went to Paris,
and within year became a marked man
and star of the Constitutional. From
that time to the present he has been seen
and known and acted with everybody
worth seeing, knowing and acting with
during the last half century. With
short intervals of power, he has passed
his life in opposition. There is not a
living Frenchman of whom all France
Is nrOuder
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WORCESTER Press: This is the sea-
son of the year when hopeful youths
wend their way to college halls, there to
learn wisdom, and are met by graduates
making their way back to the outside
world, holding in their hands parchment
certificates of deep potations at the
fountains of lore. And one great differ
ence between the hopeful youth and the
learned graduate is that the mind of the
former has but faint conception of the
possibilities in his pathway, while the
latter has learned that pair of pants
with cords tied around the bottoms OF
the legs is an excellent substitute tc
take along instead of bag when the
student makes nocturnal descent on {
professors grapevines,
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PARIS PAPER: A capitalist is just
about leaving Paris for America on
pressing business, when he misses his
pocketbook, containing $4,000 francs.
He can not afford to lose an hour, and so,
with much agony, he goes on his way.
At the end of the year he returns, hur-
ries to the Prefect of Police, details his
loss, and-joy, learns that his wallet is
at the Bureau of Lost Objects. Thither
he flies, obtains it, and with trembling
fingers and eager spectacles, counts its
contents, makes a hurried calculation,
and his jaw falls, Well" said the
clerk. "isn't it all right%' No." says
the Baron, '' it is short" Short? How
much? What don't you find there?''
"The years interest"
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TRAVELLERS in Turkey describe two
different ways of shoeing horses in
Turkey and Russia, which may seem
very awkward compared with the simple
methods of the American smiths. In
Turkey and Servia the horses head is
held by one man another holds the leg
on his arm, the third operates on the
foot. In Russia the horse is placed in a
square cage, made of rough planks OF
wood, and is strapped around the belly
with wide leather straps attached tc
cross-bars of the frame work; his head
is also tied safely; the foot is fixed to g
stake in the ground, and held by ar
assistant while the smith places the
shoe on.
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"SoRRER," says phonetic and philo-
sophie genius, "kills moar peple than
green gooseberies." Railroads kill fewer
folk than vehicles. In 1874 there were
slain by locomotives, in England, one
thousand two hundred and forty-nine
persons, Of whom seven hundred and
ninety-nine were trespassing on the
track, while one thousand five hundred
and twenty-eight were run over by, or
fatally injured while leaping from car
riages. Reduced to figures, taking the
average railroad journey at ten miles, if
n traveller should spend ten hours day
on English railroad trains with an aver
age hourly speed of thirty miles, it
would be two thousand seven hundred
and forty-nine years before his turn to be
killed came round.
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PARIS Letter: Some days ago two
young men and a fast girl went to La
Grande Tatte, an island in the Seine, to
breakfast, and, to give the cook time to
prepare it, they hired a boat and rowed.
They had not gone far when the boat
broke in two pieces and all were thrown
into the water. Only one OF them
could swim. Ropes were thrown to the
man who could not swim, and he was
saved. The swimmer dived to save the
girl, but instead of bringing her up he
brought up the corpse of woman (he
made sure it was the girD which had
been three weeks in water. Meanwhile
the rapid current bore the poor girl far
away, and she was drowned.
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THE japanese Government presented
n lot of the young carp of that country
to the California State Fish Commits
sioners. OF the number shipped, eighty
eight passed the voyage in fine condition,
and we're placed in the tank with the
goldfish at Woodward's Aquarium in
San Francisco, to be nursed until old
enough to spawn. An attempt will be
made to introduce them into all the Ia
goons Of fresh water in the southern and
middle portions of the State.
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THE young ladies of Newark, n. J.,
who belong to temperance organizations,
pledge themselves not TO associate with
young men who use intoxicating drinks.
These young ladies belong to wealthy
families, and their influence is being felt
by the young men, some of whom have
signed the pledge rather than lose the
society of the fair Temperance advocates.
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WILLIAM CARR, well-known to the
people of Detroit, Mich, as the learned
barber, man Of much scholarship, and
who enjoyed in his prime the friendship
Of William II. Seward and other promi-
nent men, died there, July 10, of
paralysis, aged seventy years. His
library was one of the most carefully
selected in the West, being especially
strong in metaphysical works, and his
dialectical skill was universal. To the
last he continued business in his little
Jefferson Avenue barber shop.
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A CURIOUS incident recently occurred
at Blatchington Battery, Sussex, En-
gland, during thunder storm. A sol
dier was sitting in his room with table
knife which he had just before been
using lying before him on the table,
when the lightning entered the apart
ment, cut the knife completely in two
and threw the pieces about the room,
while the soldier, though much fright
ened, remained unharmed.
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JULY returns of the condition of cot
ton, as received in the Department of
Agriculture, cover an area of S6l coun-
ties, producing six-tenths of the cotton
of the United States. The average con-
dition of the whole area is SO 40 per
cent, per cent. less than the July
average of last year. 1t is less by 7 per
per cent. than the average for rs, but
better than the condition for IA or '73.
Only Louisiana gives higher average
than in July of last year. The State
averages are as follows: North Carolina,
So; South Carolina, 81; Georgia, 80;
Florida, 95; Alabama, "a: Mississippi,
90; Louisiana, 102; Texas, 81; Arkansas,
81; Tennessee, 96. The crop is from one
10 two weeks late.
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BUSINESS FAILURES.

Messrs. Dun, Barlow & Co., of the
Mercantile Agency, are promptly out
with their quarterly circular of busi-
ness misfortunes in the United States
and Canada, from April l to June 80,
to which they append tables for the first
six months of the year. The facts thus
automatically presented are not reassur-
ing. The liquidations by bankruptcy
continue on very large scale through
out the country, and, singular to say,
show no signs of diminution in the
agricultural States of the West. For
the half year the great cities exhibit
somewhat contradictory reports. New
York falls off two millions, as COM
pared with the first half of 1876. The
Philadelphia bankruptcies have in
creased in number and amount. In St.
Louis, also, the amount runs up from a
million of dollars to three and a half
millions, and San Francisco from less
than two to nearly six millions. On the
other hand, the Rhode Island troubles
have fallen off from five to two mil
lions, and Boston from seven and a half
to two millions. The State of Massa-
chusetts outside of Boston is also doing
better. The City of Chicago shows an
improvement in amount, but not in the
number of failures. Cincinnati is
about stationary. The State of Mary
land, including Baltimore, shows an in
crease of failures over 1876 in amount,
but the number is about the same. The
aggregate in the United States is $685.
100000 in the six months of 1877,
against $40S, 100000 in the correspond
ing months of 1876. In the Dominion
of Canada there is sensible improve
ment, 81, 100000 to $15, 100000 in 1876