, 1878-04-24
TTE.Hs or INTEREST.

There is an area OF forty acres in North
Carolina Chat yielded over 81 10000 in
| gold since thc war.
Spring butter may mean butter
which has been brought up out OF the
cellar to breathe the spring air.
The Courier Journal hints that the
sting of bees will cure rheumatism.
Hanging man will also cure the Group.
South Carolina now has five thousand
nine hundred spindles and one theusand
four hundred looms in operation, divided
among ten prosperous factories.
A Paris paper speaks of bibliomanmc
who killed eight persons, in order to
legally inherit rare volume he coveted.
it mentions also pastor in Saxony who
murdered man and his female servent
to obtain fluids for the purchase OF n
library.
* maiden of twenty five was lntely
throwing out affected sneer at matrimony
when friend in the company observed
that marriages were made in, heaven" :"
"Can you tell me, sir" rejoined the sly
nymPh, "why they are so slow in coming
DOWN."
Sys the Lowell (AIass,) Courier: A
circular calls attention to the lack of
clergymen in this State, but as Ms.
Henry Devine of Milbury has since pre-
sentcd her husband with a set OF healthy
trpilts, the supply of Devlnes is more
hopeful.
The Smithsonian Institution has lately
received some Indian relics from the
mounds in Florida, and with them a
piece Of geld rudely beaten into u repre-
sentatiOn Of the head of woodpecker.
which is said to be the first specimen of
gold found among the remains of the
aboriginal tribes of America.
At Grotta-Minarda, in the province of
Avelllno, Italy, a country girl gong on
an crrand, lett her little boy,.2 years old,
alone III a cradle. A SOW that was teth-
cred IN corner OF the csbin. broke loose,
bounded on the cradle, and tlevoured the
baby. On her return the bewildered
mother found little lett of her cild.
Sweden does Rn enormous business in
luciter matches. The largest establish
ment is AT Jon koplng 1t was founded
in lS45, and in 1872 employed 255 men.
$40 women, lO5 boys, and 14I girls.
About four titths of the production, which
steadily increases, are exported. Tie
chemicals'uscd mostly como from Eng
land.
A theological seminary is to de opened
at TOXIC, Japan, in connection with the
recent union of tile three Protestant
missions, the American Presbyterian, the
Dutch Reformed, and the United or
Scotch Presbyterian. The college will
have Il permanent stattof three professors.
one nominated by each of the missions.
Fifteen years ago n workman IN Mar
seilcs, France, lost his only child, a baby
boy ana to have some relic of the little
one left, he cut off the left hand of the
corpse and preserved 1t in alcohol. Re
Gently he was again made u father, and
the infant is u healthy boy, but, singul-
arly enough, he lacks the left hand.
The total number of American ships is
535, OF which ia ure owned in Boston.
32 in Portland, IS in Bath, 30 in Waldo.
borough and 20 in New Bedford. OF
5S4 barks Ill are owned on the Atlantic
coast, 1870 In Boston, 10 in New Bedford.
l27 in New York aud 45 in Portland.
Gloucester is one Of the greatest ports
for schooners, owning 500 III number.
Pemmican, the fayoriic food in the
coolest parts Of British America, is made
of buffalo meat and fat The meat is
thoroughly dried IN thin slices, and then
pounded almost to powder with clubs or
stcne~, !, is next put into bags Of bli-