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Province of Quebec.
England has an export aud import
trade of $4,000, 100000
In France 30 per cent of the popula-
ton cannot read or write.
The art of working in iron has been
known at least 1000 years.
1t is estimated that about $4,000 per-
sons sail annually for Europe.
To short-sighted persons the moon
appears to have a blue fringe.
The dog tax nets the different state
governments about SIG, 100000.
Chemical analysis shows that the
human brain is 80 per cent water.
Very latest returns show the total
population of Greece to be 2,067, 900.
The first woolen factory Of the United
States was established in Hartford
eighty-seven years ago.
The American Tract Society reports
that it has distributed 77,000,O 900 pages
of evangelical literature in the past
year.
Fifteen millions of barrels of beer
were consumed i'm this country last
year at a cost to the consumers of $780,
100000.
Country boys at the age OF fifteen
average about one inch taller and seven
pounds heavier than city boys of the
same age.
Somebody has ascertained that Iowa
had nineteen cyclones between the
dates of February %, 1875, and Octo-
ber %, 1881.
Leadville, during the past five years,
has produced 2S,000,0 ,000 ounces of sill
yer, 140, 600 tons of lead and $4,000
ounces of gold.
1t is estimated that Georgia alone
will produce 5000 carload of water
melons, aggregating 7,000,00 worth
to the state 81, 100000.
Deaths by violence average over 49,
coo year in Russia, there being an
average of ten murders day. About
1880 are frozen to death every year.
Wheat receipts at San Francisco con-
tinue to maintain the falling off pre-
viously shown this year. They arc
5000, 600 centals less than last year.
The total number Of coke ovens in
tie United States in 1880 were II, 279,
employing, $40 persons and requiring
n capital OF 50, 545, ,05S to carry on the
business.
In 1860 there were 546,749 sheep in
North Carolina. In 1870 the number
was 463, 1876; in $780, by the aid of the
legislature and the dogs, the number
had fallen to 46l ,63S.
A Chinese encyclopedia, begun more
than 100 years ago and still unfinished,
has already filled nearly 100000 vol
umes, and will not be completed until
go, 600 more are written.
There is now stored in the ware
houses of the Devon Great Consols
mine quantity OF white arsenic sulli-
cient to destroy every living creature
upon the face of the earth
1t is estimated that there are $1,000
600, 600 feet of white pine now stand
ing in the lower peninsula of Michigan,
while III the upper peninsula there are
! probably not less than 1000, 100000
feet.
General Beaurcgard is the first of
his family of that name. His father 5
, name was Jacques Toutant. His title
, was Count de Bcaurcgard The gen
erals full name is Gregoire Pierre
= Toutant Beauregard.
q English capitalists have bought the
Y Pan Handle of Texas, which has an
= area of 5000 square miles. The con-
: tract has been put out for a wire fence
q POO miles long to head off the cat
1 tie from ranging north.
G England has 7,9l7,000 square miles
G of colonies and possessions beyond the
seas, in extent twice as large rs all