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forbids pigeon shooting within
its borders.
The Eureka, Col, postofIice
sends off in postal orders sIo.-
600 a month.
II IS said that Maggie Mitch
els net profits, this season will
reach $4,000.
In 1909. Fulton took out the
first patent for the invention of
the steamboat.
Another extensive discovery
of coal has been made on Van
couver's Island.
The proportion Of men to
women who commit suicide is
as four to one.
Hereafter all Turkish news
papers will be edited by gov
eminent officials.
Mexico proposes to make
only native Mexicans eligible to
seats in Congress.
The capital invested in rail-
roads IS estimated at twenty
millions of dollars.
Brooklyn, N. Y, is down for
another elevated railroad, with
capital Of 81 ,ooo,o 900.
The worlds population OF
i.437,ooo,o 600 idsludes 100000
600 nominal Christians.
Of26o cottage hospitals found
cd Of late years in England,
eight only have failed.
Connecticut tobacco lands
give an average annual yield of
1900 pounds to the acre.
The Pyrimid of Peublo, IN
Mexico, is larger than me
Pyrimid Of Cheops in Egypt.
The daily average gain OF an
Italian peasant is one franc and
twenty-one confines per day.
Thousands OF trees in North
ern Wisconsin were destroyed
by mice during the snow block
ade.
The first application to prac-
tee the use of gas for iIluminat-
ing purposes was made in
1902,
Secretary Blaine is to have
the largest residence in Wash
ington. He has two archi-
tects:
Arkansas is crowded with
men buying up timber lands.
Thousands Of acres are sold
weekly.
The Thames river, England, |
discharges from 5000 to A. |
600 cubic feet of water per |
minute.
There are $4,000 postmas-
tiers appointed by the Postmas- |
ter General and 1000 by the |
President.
The Queen Of EnSIsnd has
made Lord Rowton, Beacons-
fields private secretary, her
own secretary.
The railroads Of the old
world now cover two hundred
thousand miles, and arc steadily
being extended.
Congressman Updegraf, of
Ohio, has presented his friend
President Garfield with a span
Of biooded horses.
Gardening as al art was in
troduced into England at the
commencement Of the 9th cen
fury by the Jennings.
Mr.. Irving has received an
offer OF 100000, all expenses
paid, for a seven months the
atrical tour in America.
The specie in the three banks
OF England, Germany and
France have decreased S4e,-
in the past year.
Twenty-one cannon balls,
weighing IS pounds each, were
recently unearthed on the PEN
insuIa of Erie harbor, Penn.
There was a block house at this
point during the war of 1872.
Postmaster General James
has given the public a surprise
by the statement that since the
attempt to kill the president
scarcely a half-dozen persons
have approached the postoffice I
department on the subject Of
their claims.
Guiteau is said to be a very
tractabie prisoner and not all .
auerulous or restless. as has
been published. He is more
composed than formerly, and
has settled down, the officials
state, to await phiIosophicalIy /;
the result.
The practice of duelIing con- !
.inues to an alarming extent in
he German army. Baron Geyso )
IN officer from whom much was
has just been killed
n an encounter with another /,
DuelIing of serious !
IS also becoming COM
men among students. Not con- !:
.ent with their regulation weap-
On. the rapier, two students Of
Iottingen agreed to settle a
quarrel with pistols. One Of
hem fell mortally wounded.
There is now a dog inhrmary
It the west end of London, con- !
rolled by a member of the
Royal college Of Veterinary
surgeons. The wards are COM !,
,Iete with every moderl con- a
'enieaee for the health and E
comfort of patients. A sanitar- )
iup1 has been arranged for the =
eccntinn of LenIth,, animals :