The examiner., 1882-02-25

of it's population; the United States one
 every 2, ,OOO. With nearly double the
 area of the mother continent, the United
 States has seventeen inhabitants to the square smile, against 145 in Europe.
 This may help to explain the fact that
 in 1881 100000 men and women o1
 European birth found their way across the Atlantic.
 Eight years ago there was only $120,-
 900 invested in steamers on the St.
 Johns, Florida. Now there are twenty
 eight steamers plying on that river, one
 of which cost $24O, ,OOO, and to this feet
 constant additions are making. The
 Indian river and South Florida lakes
 and inlets are now dotted with sail
 boats, carrying freight to and fro. In a
 very short time these will be supple.
 mented by steamers, and then a new
 region will be opened of surpassing
 fertility and beauty.
 In December last, an attempt was
 made to kill the czar of Russia by
 filling with dynamite the wood used in making fire in his library stove. An inspector rushed in one morning and gave warning that the czar should not have fire made, as his suspicious had been excited by conversation he had overheard between the fireman and an officer of the guard. An examination disclosed enough dynamite to blow up the palace. The fireman and officer disappeared. Alexander does not go into his conservatory, as he has been warned that the plants are poisoned. Altogether, he manages to lead very quiet hfe-by not daring to go anywhere.
 While the fy-wheel of the Winchester Arms manufactory in New Haven was revolving so rapidly that the spokes noticed white blotch revolving with it, but supposing that it was merely sunlight falling on the wheel, he at first made no investigation. Two hours and half later he observed that the white streak was still there, and, having stopped the engine, he discovered to his amazement that the apparition was substantial white cat which had been clinging to one of the spokes since the wheel started. She was very much ex- hausted, and the numberless revolu- tions had made her cross-eyed, but she has since recovered her strength and visual perfection and become the pet of
 he establishment.
 A passenger on the steamer Egypt last summer had his attention recently aroused by an advertisement inquiring for information of young man whom he saw just as the steamer was leaving for Europe asking the captain for per mission to work his passage. He was pale. slight, fashionably dressed, with a travelling satchel, delicate hands. ex- pressive face, polished manners and we'll educated address. The second day out he saw the young man coming up through the hole leading to the furna- ces, for breath of fresh air; his hands were blackened, his brown hair un- combed, his pantaloons and shirt soiled. The passenger couldn't but ad- mire his pluck as he went back to his duty. Only once he faltered and of- fered his watch to 8 fireman to give him respite. It was intensely hot weather and he could not endure the fiery furnace. Two nights later the pas senger heard some one say, '' Bring ice, a.sman is dJ ing," and the next day the 1 young mans body was buried in the sea.
 Last summer Secretary Blaine and l President Garfield made the discovery that one of the clocks in the White l House had history worth knowing. l From bundle of old red-tape docu- ments they learned that 8 gilt and | clock, presented by Napoleon | I .Eto Lafayette, had passed from him to General Washington, and thence to l the use of the Presidents of the United | States in their official mansion. The | historical timepiece, of which no one l knew this engaging history, was found | ticking away in the exact and regular | way that it had been famous for years. It adorns the mantelpiece of the Red l Parlor now block of a1abaster with l 8 band of gold bas-relief in heraldic | designs around the base, the gilded | figure Clio, the muse of history, seated | above it. As relic and piece of vertu it is more valuable than any thing else l in the mansion, and the vicissitudes | all these years have strangely spared it | to this latter day that has just learned to reverence it.
 Cheap food is a blessing in every sense, and 8 writer in the International Re0ieoo shows the influence of the price | of food upon the social and moral con- dition of the people. It has been shown that in England and France those years in which corn was sold at the highest price have been those in which mortality was greatest and dis ease most prevalent; and that those, on the contrary, in which corn has been cheapest, have been the healthiest and least mortal. Dr. Farr, of England, in his statistical abstracts, shows that the