The Newtown bee., 1880-07-21

considerable source of wealth in France. The annual production amounts to l, 283, ,000, ,000, valued at about S3, I00, ,nUO The value of the raw material is about S600,000. The French government has formed many plantations of the cork oak in Algiers. Parts of tue United States are well adapted for the success ful cultivation of the cork oak.
 A queer will recently admitted to rrobate in Pittsburg contains bequest of ss700 to St. Peter's. Lutheran church to be used for the following purpose: The sum of $500 for the purchase of bell which shall ring at the hours of PM. of each and every day, as also about the hour of I2 NJ. of each and every Sunday, until the reverend pastor of the church has repeated the Lords Prayer, and the sum of S2O0 for the sup. port and wants of the widows at the discretion of the pastor of the church.
 The latest acrobatic Advertisement, not down on the programme, was fur nished by female perfc rmer in Ham, burg. The girl-Mlle. Leona, Euro pean favorite-was hanging by her another acrobat by her teeth, when thosemuch abused members gave way, and the man fell into the net beneath. Six of the teeth and portion of the jaw were torn out. Disgusting to re- late, an admirer has had one of the teeth handsomely mounted and in- tends to wear it as a breastpin.
 A notorious desperado, for whose cap- ture $500 had been offered, was caught in Oregon by two constables. They had to convey him hundred mile; in a wagon, and, knowing his reckless char acter, they tied him to the seat. On the way he tried several devices to escape, perate one of firing a keg of powder that was in the vehicle. This he did by coveTtly throwing a lighted match into it. He crouched as low as possi- ble, and shielded his face. so that he was not seriously injured. One of the con- stables was killed, and the other burned so badly that he could do nothing to prevent the prisoner from getting away.
 A Paris paper says that when Berson. tine lieutenant-general of artillery, gave his Cot1ee-plant to the Jard din des Plantes, in the last century, he little dreamt that 600,000,O00 pounds of the fruit would be one day produced from plantations which all had their origin in the sample given by him to the Paris museum, of which shoot was carried to the West Indies. Nor might his sur prise have been less real had he been told that, at no very distant date. as much as 5000, ,000, ,000 francs worth of the beverage made from the berry would be sold a5 the cafes of the Boule- yard, and that in 1878 the estimated production of coffee throughout the en- tire world would be set down at l, ,O8O,- 000, ,000 pounds.
 The first skirmishing in the war be- tween Russia and China took place in Terk pass, where the troops of the czar were defeated with considerable loss, being driven back to Kizil Khurgan, distance of some twenty-five miles, were again worsted, with loss of stores anu ammunition. The Chinese have strengthened their army, and they have considerable fleet of gunboats, but there is no reason to believe that they will be able to stand against the con- querors of Plevna. or secure their ports against successful attack by the Rus- sian fleet. But while they may not be able to meet their enemy n the field at the beginning of the war, their inex- haustible numbers may enable them to offer a more or less determined resist ance.
 The Yuma (Cal.) Sentinel tells of a novel insurance plan, as follows: MT. David Balz, who counts his cattle by the thousands, has adopted a novel method to provide for the future of his two children. He has selected thirty head of his two-year-old heifers from different herds, all of pure blood and well-bred, and given them to his chil- dren, and has charged himself with the maintenance of the same and their increase until the children are of age. We have made a careful estimate of the probable number of cattle his chil- dren will have on their becoming of age, and find it enormous. Reckoning an increase of thirty-three and one third per cent, and the time sixteen years, it amounts to 2,050 head, worth, we will say, $50 per head, and aggre- gates the snug little sum of S62, ,000.
 The Emperor of Brazil is still indulg- ing the fondness for material progress which caused him to express so much admiration for this country when visit ing here. He has just given the last stroke to the new Rio Janeiro water works, letting into the city water from streams forty miles away, carried through vast intervening reservoirs to Rio Janeiro by thirty-two in h mains; and he has also given the first stroke to new and important railroad. These things, however, cost money, as the Khedive of Egypt found out. Brazil's finances show a prospective deficit for the new fiscal year, even exclusive of the S6,O00 O00 desired for public works. It is believed that she must continue for a while to add eight or ten millions year to her debt, which now, including outstanding obligations i'll paper cur rency. is about SI4 ,000 OO0 milireis, or about S407, ,0O0, ,000. It has been in- creased by about $i7,00o,0o0 the past year.
 It is not strange that l2,0OO dentists find employment in the United States. Dr. J. N. Farrar, of New York city, states in an article published in the Dental Laboratory that not less than half ton of pure gold costing about $500, 900, is annually packed away in the mouths ot Americans, and, in ad- times as much cheaper material, such as silver, platina, etc, used in filling cavi- ties in teeth. He makes the curious and interesting estimate that only BOG years would be required to bury the amount of gold coin now in circulation in the country (Sl5O.OO0, ,O0O) in the grave yards. The magnitude of American dental operations is shown by tho state ment that about 3,O00.0O0 artificial or porcelain teeth, mounted On various kinds of plates. are made every year. Dr. Farrar supplements these figures with the important statement, based on statistics compiled with painstaking labor, that out of an average of eighty people of all classes, only one can be found with perfect dental organs. The