Rare And Readable

It is said the city of Pittsburg1 now stands on ground once given in changue for a violin. An average workman using a Jacquard loom can weave fifty yards of Brussels carpet in a day. A building1 stone quarried near Norwich in England in 1889 weighed thirtyfive tons, the largest on record. The musical horses are the latest attraction in Paris. They play several musical instruments with their feet. Massachusetts has one library to i each 4,000 of its inhabitants, and a book and a halí to each one of its j peoplo Three thousand four hundred aud seventy'new buildings were erected in j Pittsburg during tha year ending uary 31. Drivers of heavilv-loaded vehioles in Washington and Baltimore are ! pelled by oiïicersof the humane society to walk up steep hills in order to lighten the loarl for their poor beasts. Saín Do 'i I. aged 8 years, of : fcucky is now serving a year's sentenca i in the p 'niteiitiary for grand larceny. He is repoited to be the yoangest vit ever recorded in tliat state. T wo-cent confedérate stamps i ly carried a small package f rom Granby, Mass., to Boston. ïhe package j had g'one through the postoiiices at Gránby, Hadley and Boston unnotioed. j A Chicago shoe manufactory makes ! 20,000 pairs of "dead men's shoes" a month. The soles are of pasteboard, covered wiLhgrained paper, the uppers are qnilted :-atin andc;ochet work and j a ribbon tied in a bow knol holds the shoe to the foot. It costs the people about as much to ] pay for the printing of the eulogies of a deceased congresman as it does to pay the salary of a live one for a full j term of two years. One week lately i eulogies were delivered on six dead members, and the cost of printing them in handsonxe grift books will bd not far from $30,000. The production of copper in the United States in 1893 is estimated at 325,180,000 pounds, of which 107,200,000 pounds were from the Lalce Superior reg-iou, and 164,300,000 from Montana mines The total is an increase of about thirteen per cent over 1891. Exports diminished slightly, but there was a large increase in the home consumption, so that the stocks on hand at the close of the year were considerably less than at the end of 1891.