Of General Interest

- The product of canncd fruits in 1886 was grcater than ever before. - The mole is au engineer, and fonns a tunnel quite as well is if he had been Instmcted by au engineer. -Report says that T. B. Aldrich has a dog trained to carry rolls of MS. setat in by would-be coBtribntora to the Atlantic Monthhj and drop tliein inlo the waste basket - A Germán cattie food, whieh had a largo sale, was fuund to eontain vegetable ivory tnminga tlghty-eight parta and connnoii salt twelve parta in one hundred; value, uil. - American capitalista are said t be Investing heavily in Mexiean mines, which can be worked much cheaper than mines in this country, owing to the low price OÍ labor. - A Minnesota editor is said to have gone South to recover his health. This proras tlie wanton inconsistency of some men. If he had lost his health wliy didn't he advertdse for it in lüs paper? - N. Y. Gniphie. - Sliould tliose who lire in the city buy more fruit and less candi es and nuts, their cliildren would be healthier, as eating nuts and sweets cause more sickness in cliildren than any thing else. Trjmore fruits and note results. - The Dccorator and Furnisher says: "The etl'eet of an advertisement and t1ie returns it muy bring eau liever lie foiitold, as constant inquirios are made concorning artíoles that have heen advertised and discontinued months before." - Flour bárrela made from papei pulp have been tested and approved by the clüef Inspector of theNéw York Produce Exchange. They are light, tight, seamless and strong, and thé pulp Can lie made from connnoii mar-li weeds and grasses. - An electric motor fof a street car, which is in the e:ir itself, and not as an independent engine, has been worked ont by Mr. Jarman, an Knglishman. It is placed onder the car between tho axles, and does not interfere with the coiistruction of the car. - Among the many curious and interesting Works of the largest library in the world, at Paris, is a Chinese (hart of the hcavens, made about 600 B. C. In this chart 1,460 stars are correctly inserted, as corroborated by the observations of modern astronomers. - Aocording to the American örocer the total animal expendí tupe for tobáceo in the United States is f256,500,000, which represents a per capita tai of $3.44 per annnin. Cigarettes cosí $6,500,000 and ehewing tobáceo $50,000,000 a year. The cost of tobáceo is more than doublé the loss by fires. - Paris has discovered a new poet, Jehan Sarrain by name, who is not a ] " a :m l like Kolline, has not been puffed by Albert Wolff, does not know Sarali Bernhardt. is not a Parisiau or a man of the world. bul Is peddler of olives in a concert hall. He sell.s his books with his olives; is becoming wealtln. has real talent in him and will be famous, so they say. - Boston Qlobe. - Louis Blanding, of California, sas the generalij aecepted statement that the largest bugget ever found in California wat worth a little more than f "21, 000 is erroneous. He lajrs that J. J. Finnev, "ükl Virginia," found a pieoa of gold about six miles from Downieville, Sierra County, on August 21, 1866, that weighed 5,000 oonoes. The gold of that vicinity was worth $18 per ounce, wImcIi would make the value of the nugget $90,000. - A rat and oock sparrow had a pitched liattle in Oil City the otherday. The sparrow was the aggressor, and tttacked the, rat viciously, striking at it vcvrv iniich In the style of a gamo eoek and then Bying down and picking at it. Once it atruok the rat in the ye, and the rat spun around and around before it oould gi't it s hearings. In the end, however, the rat got the best of the liattle, and the sparrow flew away, baring lost manj feathers. - Dr. Sargent, of the Harvard gym nasium hasexamined Qanlan, the oarsinan, and says that he has "a great head and au exrellent body all the way tlown to tho legs." Judged by a standard of perfeetion the oarsnian's legs and arm are too short. Dr. Bargen) Says tliat, this defect has made Hanlan the oarsnian he is; and that the power from the shoulders, back and Loins, with the immense leverftge given by tlii short, legs and arms, is wliat has made liim alinost the per fection in build for a sculler. - A most remarkable and interesting mineral in Arkansas i the white malleable iron ore. It is found in tho corner of HowardCountj aëjoining the froutierof Montgomery, Polk and l'iki'. During the war, it is stated on good authority, the Inhabitanti of the vioinitv used to take the ore as it was picked up from the ground, and, in an ordinnry blacksiuith forge, hammer it into horseshoenails. Itcan be abundantly proved that the ore can be taken and, being hoatod in an ordinary blacksmith forge, can lie welded and beaten into any desired shape. - Boston Budget. - A new disinfecting eompound for purifying the atniosphero f the sick room has just been presented to tlie Berlín Medical Society. Oils of IWemary, and thvine, in the proportion of 10, 2J and i respectlvely are mixed with nitrlo acid in the prolvrtioii (f 30 to IJ. The bottle should bc shaken before using and a sponge Satunted with the eompound, and U'ft to difl"use by evaporation. Simple as it s, the vapor of Ütfi eompound ís said to possess extnordlnary properttes in controlling tlie odors and ellluvia of offensive and infectiou diieuses.