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 A standard musical journal says that there are at the present time 244,00O females in London studying music. No decrease in the suicide list is re- ported.
 It is said that the Hon. Lum Shook of Coshacton, Ohio, thinks that McKin- ley will be betrayed at St. Louis. A warning from man with such name as that should receive attention from the Mckinley managers.
 The Bank of France is regarded as a plutocratic concern, yet it's stock is owned by over 2S,000 persons. The Credit Foncier, the other great money cd institution of France, is owned by over 36,00O people and she average value of holdings is s2,000.
 N N,sv~ ,Ie y 10 ntirrlI66 hI1t if isn't asking for crutches. Its mayor says: 'sThe entire burnt district of eight blocks will be rebuilt as fast as money and labor can do it," and we believe that we can take care of our selves without outside assistance"
 Charleston, South Carolina, is becom- ing an important manufacturing city. The News and Courier publishes fig ures showing that Charleston now has 19S manufacturing industries, giving employment to 5,5o7 people. The capi- tai invested in these industries aggre- gates s1o,37O0oO,a and the annual product IS Vaiueu dI lf,4oA,uuu.
 Italy proposes to take the sale of qui- nine out of the hands of the druggists and to make it a government monop oly. Druggists sell it at the rate of from $50 to $10O a pound, while the gov- ernment gets it for the army at s5 a vx,iIJ 1n i,,c fy1h to prevent aduteration, in doses of one gramne at cost of three and four cents
 Mr. Quilliam, a lawyer of Liverpool, England, a follower of Mahomet. and the Sheik- -ul-Islam (chief of the relig ion) of the British Isles, has issued a proclamation in his journal, "The Cres- cent" and has had it translated into Arabian, Persian and Hindoostan, call ing upon all the faithful to decline to take part in the Soudan expedition. He says that any Mahometan who ever gives a glass of water to a soldier in tending to war against his fellowbe lievers is not worthy of being counted among the faithful.
 A curious case has lately been passed upon by 9 Philadelphia court Some ten years ago a family named Falls moved from certain tenement owing $50 back rent. During the past winter Mrs. Falls, now a widow, again sought and was granted the same quarters, and soon after moving in made a pay ment equivalent to three months rent This the landlord immediately claimed as a part of the old account and there on hung the suit just settled in court. The decision is that, as matter of fact, Mrs. Falls, living at the time of the former occupancy with her husband, he, as the head of the family, and not she, was liable. Furthermore, the debt was outlawed, and the husband being dead it could not be collected, unless the widow assumed it, which she was not legally bound to do. The judge held that the payment had been for the three months rent, and the woman could not legally be elected before the expiration of that time.
 Dr. s. H. Durgin, chairman of the Boston Board of Health, is authority for the statement that the mortality among school-children in Boston is larger than in any other city in this country or in foreign countries. This is due largely, he says, to the unsanitary surroundings of the children in school The rooms are unwashed and full of dust and dirt, the temperature in cold weather is kept abnormally high, and the air the children are compelled to breathe is abominable. This excessive mortality in Boston is despite medi- cal supervision of the schools which is claimed to be unique. A number of physicians are employed at a small salary. They visit the schools each