Items Of Interest

-Florida guarantees 1,000,000 pineapples this season. - Chicago oomplains that she is getting all of Pittehurgh's paupers. -A bridge 2,100 feet long ia being built across Bearriver, in northern Utah. - Out of 140,000 adult males in Mississippi, 70,000 are delinquent on the poll tax list. -Songs are distributed in France in behalf of the resurrection of the Bonaparte dynaaty. -Laat year 1,746 wiyes and 4,492 ohildren of Biïtish soldiers were oompelled to petition the State for bread. -And now St. Louis, envious of San Francisco, is longing for a twelve-story hotel, with accommodations for 3,500 gueats. - A big erop of oysters is set down for the New Jersey coast this year, four million bushela being the estímate. The oystermen are already in a stew. - The increase in the number of books in the Public Library of Boston averages 2,500 per month, and there are now 286,334 volumeson the shelves. - Twenty cigars"a head is the number annually manufactured for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Forty yeara ago two was the allowance. - In consequence ofthedestruction of Eorests in southern Kussia, the climate of the empire is becoming ooider in winter and dryer every year. - Marshal MacMahon's income as President of France is $120,000 per annnm, besides which he is allowed $78,000 for household and reception expenses. - Mrs. E. H. Tubman has presented to the Campbellite Society of Augusta, Gta., a magnificent church edifice, having the tallest spire in thè South, and costing nearly $70,000. - The Palmetto Guard of South Caroina have issued an address inviting cooperation in the centennial celébration of the battle of Fort Moultrie, June 28, .776. They propose to make the celeiration "a message of brotherhood and union." - "Brethren," said a good Baptist in indiana, while giving his experience 'I've been a tryin' this nigh onto forty rears to aerve the Lord and get rich, joth at once ; and I teil yer all, I flnd it mighty hard sledding." ■ - A Strasburg paper statea that the sword given up by Napoleon III. to ïing William, was hanided over by b'nnce Bismarck in March, 1871, to 3en. Castlenau, who went to Berlín 'or that purpose under an assumed name. - Mr. G. W. Smith has been directed 5y the trustees of the British Museum to resume his excavations at Nineveh, and ie expeefs to start soon for the East. Sis new book on the "Chaldean Account of the Genesis," which contains his recent discoveries, ia now in the presa, and will shortly be published. - Mamma (to her oldest son)- "My dear George, where are your manners ? You ahould alwaya say 'Thank you' when anything is handed to you." George - "O, bother having to say thanka everyime, ma! Can't a fellow have a season icket ?" - The Board of Visitors of the Baltimore jail have decided to try the experiment on the professional bummers of mixing whiskey with every article of 'ood and drink issued to them, in the ïope that their thirst for liquor may be permanently satisfled. - The City Council of Baltimore will se petitioned to pass on ordinance providing that publio school teachers who, after a continuous aervice of tbirty years, secóme unable to diacharge their duty, nay be retired upon a small pension for ife. - The Missiasippi and Orinoco CompaTf of St. Louis has been incorporated for the purpose of establishing direct trade between St. Louis, New Orleans, the Is:and of Trinidad, West Indies, and the ports on the Orinoco and its tributaries in South America. - Littre, the French Academician, says it is very difficult, if not impossible, to establish a perfect republic anywhere, and henee the one now set up in France on the basis of varioua compromisos is not to be sneezed at, especially as its competitor is the Napoleonic empire. - James Lick haa jüst proposed to build his $800,000 astronómica! obaervaory on the summit of Monnt Hamilton, if the Supervisors will construct a railroad thither from San José. Mount Samllton is sixty-five miles from San Francisco, and its summit is 4,440 feet ligh. It is thought by many that Mount Diablo would be a better site. -While journeying by the London and Northwestern Raüway from Liverpool to London recently, a young American woman named Wyatt, aged seventeen, gave birth to a child in the train. The mother and infant both died soon afterward, and at an inquest the verdict was that death had been accelerated by sea aickness and traveling. - "Vhat'a all this talk about the courrency and the flve-twinties and sivinthirties that I hears about, Mike ?" "Why, bless your aowl, don't ye know, Pat ? It manes the Government wants to make the laborin' min work from fivetwinty in the mornin' till siven-thirty in the avening. "Och, the apalpeena! May the divil chokethim !" - A deaf and dumb man entefed the house of a Texan farmer to stay all night, and not making himself understood he put his hand in his pocket for his slate, on which to write his request. The farmer thinking he was drawing some weapon on him, flred at him, and inflicted a wound wliich may prove fatal. - It is a popular belief that lightning will not strike a beech tree. In a Tecent thunder shower at Goshen, Mass., a beech and maple standing near together, with branche interlocking each ottier, received the electric bolt, which shattered the maple and passed into the earth through a prostrate hemlock tree lying near, whióh was stripped of its bark nearly the whole length. No trace of the lightning was left upon the beech. -The colored parson of a Georgia church gave out a hymn which did not aocord with any tune known to the congregation. An old darkey in the corner rose np and said: "Parson, I'm pretty sartin I kin reech to both eends o' them varses. " BruddeT Jones will raise de time ;" and the old man gave out a series of shrieks to outrival a calliope with a dranken engineer. "Hold up.brudder," oried the frantio preacher ; "de singing will be adjourned to the next meeting." - A few days ago W. C. Hodgkinson, horse slaughterer, Sandhills, in England, purchased a horse which had died suddenly. On cutting up the animal he found in the colon about 1,000 nails of various sizes, a number of acrews, buttons, and several other small thiugs not less difficult to digest. No one seems to be able to account for the extraordinary appearancë of the large number of nails and screw8, but they had evidently been swallowed by the animal some time ago for they had beea worn Baxooth and thin by friction.