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There are said to be only twenty ex.Confeds-
rates--including Jefferson Davis and Robert
Toombs--whose disabilities have not been re-
moved.
The skeleton Of tho United States ship Cali.
fornia, built eight years ago at coat OF 81 &c.,,
0OO lies out at Hunters Point, Fouth San Fran
cisco. The wreckers are gradually tearing 1t to
pieces.
Prof. Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic ex-
plorer, proposes to sail around the northern
coast OF Asia and return to Europe by way Of
the Suez Canal.
A man in Cardiff Wales, having stabbed bin
wife the other day, she hastoged to q doctor, who
dressed her wounds, but, finding she had no
money, undressed them again.
A temperance sanitary colony has been Or
ganizsd in Fresno county, California. The inem-
bers pledge themsely to preserve the sanitary
condition OF the colony by maintaining the purity
OF the air. to sell or make intoxicating liquors,
and to belong to no secret organization.
The valuable picture gallery belonging to
the Iuc d'Aumale has arrived at Chsntilly from
rwck snham. The collection is worth about
ST., OF, 900, and will shortly be opened to the pub
lie. The Rembrandts are the finest in existence.
Among them are "The Night Patrol" and the
Resurrection OF Lazarus," which tho Gear Of
fered to purchase few years ago for SAC, 600.
The portion Of the collection known as the Seal
erie de Lequetes" is alone worth $3.50 900.
Lord Nelson's parequet lately died at the age
of 1l5 ears at the Jardin des Plantes One OF the
peculiarities connected with the life of this bird
was this-that while ON board the Victory, during
the battle Of Trafalgar, the continuous firing OF
cannon had such an effect as to destroy all the
acquisitions which previously distinguished it,
aud IL was incapable afterward OF uttering any
thing but 'Bombl Bomb Bomb!'
The proprietors OF large steam Touring
mill in Mi nesota are using hay AZ q cheap fuel.
In that region hay can be put in the stack at
each mans door at q cost Of 50 per ton, end ten
tons, it is said, will furnish fuel for one stove
during q winter season. Hay-burning stoves
and machines for twisting the hay into knots or
sticks have already been patented. In sections
where hay ranges from SIS to $50 per ton the new
fuel will not be found 80 cheap as in Minnesota.
A recent British Consular report ates that
the University Of Odessa is the only institution
in New Russia where superior education, eimi.
lar to that in the universities Of western Europe,
is given. II was founded in 1855. and now has 43
professors, 252 pupils, library Of 10000 vol
umes, and schools Of history, law, mathematics,
science and physics. Most students enter the
law classes. so strict ia the matriculation ex.
animation that in 1873 only 20 out Of SIS sue
ceeded in passing. AL schools in Odessa are un-
der State control, no ono is allowed to teach
without q license, and even private tutors and
governesses must pass an examination before
entering family. Odessa's population Is about
$780, 900. New, or South, Russia comprises Bes-
sarabia, Kherson, Taurida Yekaterinoslar and
the territory OF the Don Cossacks, and covers an
area about thrice as large as the State of New
York.