A Professional Bird Catcher

Berlín pays a salary to a professional bird catcher, who keeps scientiflc and educational institutions supplied with birds, birds' nests and eggs, and he is the only man in the empire permitted to do so. The train of the dress worn by Catherine de' Medici on her marriage in 1533 with Henri, second son of Prancis I, kiug of France, measured no less thau 48 yards in leugth and was carried by ten pairs of pages. In Italy there are more theaters in proportion to the population than ia ariy other country.