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The Amerioan appetite for prunes is ! growing. Last year 22,000,000 pounds ' were iinported, against 7,000,000 the ' year before. The twin sorew and triple screw j steamships with iniproved engines ' develop more power with less coal than the single engines. The Etruria burns about 300 tons a day. The electrieal bicycle is up in Eng-land. The weight of the teries when filled with liquid is to be forty-four pounds, and the whole weight of the machine is to be 155 pounds. Two little ïiewark, N. J., boys, aged about six and ten years, while attempting to cross a Street in that city one day got stuck in the mud. A j orer heard their cries, and, coming to ! their assistance rescued them. The word "syndicate," which is of American origin, is now used in the Britiah house of commons to characterize combinations by which a tramDer of members having a common object in view unite for balloting purposes. The students of Yale college divide the scholastic year into four seasons - the football season, the base ball season, the training season and the bock beer season. The latter comes in March between the training season and the base ball season, The guns in use on the ships of our modern navy have a píate of steel armor fastened over them and bent slightly back, so that a missile striking- it would be deflected upward. A visitor said he supposed that this was a serviceable protection to the men who were working the guns. "Lor' bless yer!" replied the old salt who was explaining the mechauism of the big rifle, "'tain't to protect the men, it's to keep the works from gettin' knocked out of order. There's men enough. " The equestrian statue of Washington which is to find its home in Philadelphia is the work of a Germán sculptor, Professor Rudolph Siemering. The whole structure is fifty feet high and the octagonal base is fully thirty feet in diameter. Eight emblematic figures are grouped about the base of the pedestal, and on other parts of the base are various American animáis and figures of Indians. The figures of Washington and his horse are many times larger than life, and all of the figures around the base of the statue are modeled on a heroic scale.