Items Of Interest

- The late elactions waftedten Missk'sippi editora into office. - Seal-brown stockings are colored with picric acid, an active poiaon. - Switzerland possfMses Ifi8 cotton milis, running 2,059,350 spindles. - A doll show is to be held in London shortly, in a?d of a ehüdren's hospital. -The Eussian Government owns 148 salt works, whioh produce annually about 400,000 tons. - Surveyor-General Gardner of California reporta the área of tlie State aj 100,500,000 acres. - Queen Victoria lias sent to the Brighton Aquarium a turtle from the Island of Ascensión weighing over 380 pounds. - Last year's stamp duty on patenta for inveiitions granted in Great Britain amormted to over $779,720. - A sensitive barkeeper in Jonesboro, Ga. , killed lnmself because he had not been invited to a temperance party. -One of the Oincinnati breweries has received an order for 10,000 barrels oí lager beer, to be used at the Centennial. - The Bolgians are the least litigions people in thé world, as it takea an average of 2,700 öf tltem to support one lawyer. - The jïarquis of Bute has planted 3,500 grape vines on his Cardiff estáte, to see if good wiues cannot be made in Wales. - Upward of 20,000 letters were posted in England laat yèar without any address, among them one which contained $10,000 in bank notes. - There ia tolk of building an opera house ii Paria -.viíii n Pftfttiqg capacity of 15,000, ■■fldm'ission to which is to be only two francs. - Two trees in Pennison, Texas, are joined by a horizonUl limb, and on that natural gallows ñve men have been lynched -within ten years. - Algeria has 10,000,000 aeree of land yielding a spontaneoua growth of the alpha plant, which is now being exported for the manufactui'e of paper. - Bats that live in granaries are said, by a professional rat catcher not to be poiaonous, while those that feed on refuse meat inflict painful wounds. - A chime of bells has lately been shipped from Boston to one of the Alaska islands, and a peal of bells has been ordered for a,nother of the islands. --Four girls aged between 14 and 16 years, confessed to having set fire to a school house in Greenfield, Mo., and were sentenced to two hours eacli iu jaiL - Ont of 400 religious publications of tlae United States, the Methodists claim á7, the Koman Catholics 41, tlie Baptists 35, the Presbyterians 29, and the Jews 9. ■ - By the sinking of the English steamer Charles Dickens acroas the mouth of the harbor of Boulogne, the fishermen of that place losing an average of L1,500 daily. . - Common field hands in Mississippi are now earning from $1.50 tú '$3 a day picking cotton, steamboat laborers $(50 per month, and skilled artisans proportionately higher prices. - The champion pie biter of America has been discovered at Mohrsville, Pa. He contracted to eat an apple pie, thirty inches in circumference, in ten bites.and actually devoured it in eight. I - Itinerant photographer (from under the cloth) - "Will youkeep quiet? How do you suppose " Subject (who is evading the focus) - "Beiabers, man ! Will I sit still to be shot at !" - The recent great fire in Dublin, in which 1,800 puncheons of whiskey ran off in the street gutters, provided free intoxication to thonsands of men and ■vromen. Three men and two boys have died of over-drinkiug on that occasion. ■ - Switzerland takes the lead in the comparativo number of telegrams sent to other parts, averaging eighty-one messages per 100 inhabitauts. Jingland follows with flfty-four to the 100 ; then comes Holland, fifty-one ; Belgium, forty-seven ; the United States, thirty-two ; Germany, thirty-one. Eussia does the least, not equalHng one telegram to this number of people. - Leaves of the pineapple, now being extensively cultivated in the East Indies, are tnrned to account by being ■ converted into a kind of wadding whicli is used for upholsterinn; instead of hair. A sort of flannel is also manufactured from thein, from which substanti il waistcoats and shirts can be made. -A number. of parents were convicted at the Lambeth Pólice Court iu London, the other day, of not sonding their chiTdren to sehool, and fiupd in snms ranging from one to three shillings, with costs. One wornan protested that her child had not only been sent to school, but "knew more than all the School Board lot put together. " - Henry Lee set fire to a house nenr Fredericksburg, Va., and was unsuspected ; but his innocent son va's arrêsted, and was likély to be convietod by circumstautial evidence. Tho son told his father to keep silent, and allow him to be punished. The father consented, but afterward changed hia mind, tvrote a confession, and drowned himself. ■■ - A doctor went out West to practice his profession. An old friend met him on the street one day, and asked him how he was succeeding in his business. "First rate," he replied. 'Tve had one case." "Well, and wliat was that ?" "It was a biith j" said the doctor. "How did you succeed with that ?" "Well, the old woman died, and the child died, but I think I'll save the old man yet !" - The eurly bird catches the worm. Struggling young physician (who, after listening with rast attention to the symptoms of his iirst patiënt,) strikes a handbell, and summons his faithful attendant): "O- er Roberts!" Koberts- "Yes, Rir." Physician - "When Mr. Gladstone comes, take him iuto the breakfast room, and ask him to be so kind as to wait a litíle while." To patiënt - "Now, madam!" - There is a Chinese priest in Pekin ■who is well nigh crazy to coavert the hea,then of Amorica to the true Asiatio religión of Buddha. Every time the Emperor faikes an uii-ing, this benevolent Buddhitn throvs himself flat boforo his innjesly and shouts: "The heatheu, sire, the heathen in America, send mouey to convert their souls !" The imperial body guards in vain try to bottle up his zeal, and he haa become a tolerated ouriosity in the streets. There is a btdl-frog farm in roíi'V eastern Wisconsin, thirty acres of swarap fenced in, and the - propriet v , bousands of these foatliurlo hir,U New York.