The Virginia star., 1881-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Papier- -mache buttons were made
| In 1878.
There are In Great Britain and Ire
land q. .936 doctors.
Gold In the Bank of England
amounts to SIS, SOC, 900.
Bottles OF glass were first made In
England about the year 1853.
The first United States Congress
met in New York, March 4, 1889.
The New York street cars carry
annually q hundred million passenger.
Shoe pegs require annually for
their manufacture 100, 600 cords OF tim
ber.
1t Is said tha. Col. Thomas A. Scott
of Philadelphia Ia worth about twenty
millions.
The celebrated Italian embalmer,
Paolo Gorini, lately died at lodi, aged
sixty-eight.
Canada has e,45s sailing vessels
and ol8 steamers, with gross tonnage
of 100, 159 tons.
About JOG, 900 bushels Of hemp seed
are annually consumed for bird food In
the United States.
st. Louis acknowledges q little
municipal debt of SIS, ,607, 900. 1t was
$12 ,379, 900 in 1874.
The destructio by fires in the city
OF New York last year averaged about
$3.50, ,7S6 per month.
The first tame sheep In the United
States were brought from England to
Virginia in 1909.
There was in Germany in 1873 $40
paper mills which together produced
$500, 900 cwt. of paper.
The number of Roman Catholics In
England ls estimated at one million:
In Scotland, at $40, 900.
The butter, cheese, egg, and milk
business of this country are estimated
to be worth $40, ZOO, ,OoO.
"A city Of London oficial estimates
the gross annual income of that city's
charities at$22, 00.O00.
The paper wheels on the new cars
of the New York, New Haven, and
Hartford Railroad cost $40.
The Presbyterian church In Canada
has membership of 107,s7l. There
are 800 churches and stations.
According to the late census.
California, with population OF S84,-
6S6. has only 75.02s chinese.
The London sunday School Union
mas issued o call for universal PRAYER
for Sunday schools Oct. 18th and 18th.
The British Government spends
$7oo,OOO annually on its Consular SER
Wee and the United States only $780,
~
Switzerland was visited, according
TO statistics collected by the Alpine
Cino OF Italy, by l 400, 900 tourists In
The object Of King Kalakaua's
visit to Japan is said TO be to propose
a scheme OF emigration of naaiyes to
Hawaii.
The total value of metals and min
erais produced in Great Britain and
Ire Ireland In 1879 was slightly over $685.
The salt used by the packers and
butchers of San Francisco is obtained
by solar evaporation from the waters
of the ocean.
The annual number of deaths
throughout the world Is at the rate Of
81, ,790 day; that OF births Is at the
rate of 104 800.
There is tax upon wedding rings
In England Of II shillings an ounce,
and the revenue therefrom Is about
per year 100000.
The tonnage OF English SAILING yes-
sells has decreased by about 5O0, 900 tons
since 1870, but steam tonnage has In
creased bv about ]. 400. 900 tons.
-Vinton County, Ohio, has family
named Reynolds, whose combined ages
amount to 97s years. The father Ia
ninety-one, the mother eighty-eight.
The hammer with which John
Paul Jones uailed the hI.tpric fiag
to themast of his ship is owned bv =
gentleman in Indiana, Pennsvlvania
In Hungary 1t is said fully GOO, 900
cnlldreh or school age do not 90 to
school at all, while those who do 90
frequently stav only three or four
years.
The English gold coin the guinea
was so called from he fact that ii was
made from gold brought from the coast
OF Guinea, In 1873. It was then worth
thirty shillings.
President Elliot. of Harvard Col
~6~1 - ~0oAh W buttu summer TAat-
dence at Northeast Harbor. Ne. Deaert
Bishop Doane, of Philadelphia will
also build In the same locality.
In the last agricultural returns ar
dreat Britain the growth of woods and
forests Is shown TO be going on yery
last, and In the last five years has In
creased bv half a million acres.
In 1871 the census rave Graat
Britain 81, 500 ,063. An estimate basaI
on births and deaths last June gave a
population OF a million more. The nre-
sent census will, it Is estimated. giva
Great Britain 36, 600, 900. so
-Inere are now In uso In New Zea-
land aionee over 8, 900 reaping- machines.
from about 40 to 80 steam plourhs. 40
steam harrows, together with over
l,ooo neutrality-suspicious., OF which 374
are worked by steam-power,
Mr.. @. Phillips Bevan estimate tho
grand total Of gold. produced during