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There are four Jews in the Turkish l'arliament. It is a fraud to borrow wliat wo are not ablo t) repay. Canker-woums are killiug the fiunous elms of New Haven. Asvisb not what is most pleasant, bat what is most usefiü. Eichabd H. Dana has attained the great age of 90 years. ïheodoek Tilton'k daughtcr Florence is with hiin in California. Bomb 800 dozen frogs' limbfl from Detroit reach New York daily. Forty journals are pnblished in Germany devoted to Socialisin. Most of the Southern papers take the side of the Turks in the war. A BOTJQUBT of 350 flowers, each of a different kind, was exhibited at a Georgia fair. Fifteen thousand incn, womoii and ehildren are picking strawberries at Norfolk, Va. The London papers employ seventyfonr Parliamentary reporters, the Times leading with fifteen. One Boston gentleman has a eook wli o has been in the family flfty-four years and still thrives, The little town of Salem, N. C, with 2,000 inhabitamts, has gathered and sent to inarket, during the past three years, mote fchan 3,000,000 pounds of blackberries, for whieh the gatherers received nearly $500,000. In au election for school trustees in Denver, Col., votes were cast by 323 women. Only one was challcnged, a miss of 18 years, who knew she was old enough to innrry and thought she was old enough to vote. To-day Berlin is covered with the wrecks of speciilative credulity. Many of the millionaires of a few yeaxa ago are in a state verging on absolute poverty. Over-production and over-speculation have caused the crisis. The equiility in point of numbers of the sexcs is most nearly attained in France. For every 1,000 men there are 1,007 women. The other extreme is found in Paraguay, where there are 2,089 women for 1,000 men. A CHUE0H in Berlin, made of paper, is octagonal without and circular within. The material is made waterproof by saturating it with vitriol. lime water, whey, and the white of eggs. The building has fine relief work on the outside, anc papier-mache statucs adorn the interior. Hobart Pasha's valor, rash and impetnous as it scems to tlie lazy Turks, has been in the way of his preferment. He goes among them by the name o: " Veli-Pasha" (Mad Pasha), and they hold, or affect to hold, him of little or no account in council. Cooked snails are said to possess the power of restoring tone to the coating o: the stomoch when badly injured by strong drink. The sale of snails is a source of mueh profit to the peasants oi Tivoli, near Rome, Italy, and the flavor is said to be more delicious than that o: oysters. A farmer in Ohio was prevented six weeks ago from cutting his throat with a razor. He said he would starve himself. He has since been kept alive on sueh liquida as he could by pretext be persuaded to swallow. He has hat his coftin made, and it stands in his house ready for use. Real estáte in Washington is at a desperately low figure. The elegant mansion erected by Gen. Howard and subsequently purohaeed by Mrs. Sehoolcraft, was lately disposed of for a mere trine. The magnifieent residence formerly owned by John Chamberlain went of last weck for a trifle. Public opinión in Germany is tlius refleeted in a conversation bctween two good burghors of Berlín, teken from a Berlin paper: First burgher - "Sowe are likely to have another war with France?" Beoond burghcr - "Let us pray they may thrash us, so that they may be as poot as we are. " A grove of the great trees of the Yo semite has just been explored. It is o an altitude similar to that of the othei grövee, 6,000 feet. lustend, however of being only u cluster of forty trees, i is a six-miie-squíire collection of 10,000 There aze trees in it estiinated to b( from 100 to 4,000 years old. A comi'ajuson of the dairy interes with the cotton erop shows some pe culiar resolta rathex adverse to cotton's kingship. The 10,000,000 milch cows in this country are worth 450,000,0(10 and the amount realized from their pro duotiou foots np to $275,142,585, while the last cotton erop was worth only $200, 000,000. Queen Victoria has eompleted her 58 th year ; only twelve other of the thirty-eight reigning sovereigiiK of Chris tendom Gave attained to this age. Tlu oldest of all is the Popo, who is 85 Emperor William s 80, the Czar is 59 Victor Eniiiuuil is 57, Emperor Francis Josepli is nearly 47. The youugest o the Bovereigns is Alphonso of Spain. Here if a retnark from the TVi Crosst !im which will be apprècftvted V)y con sumers of bíortdstnífe : "'Tleïèifaome thing peculiar about flour. AVJien whea ■ ii a up 10 cents a, bushei, llour finds i out by telegraph, bnt when wheat goes lown, flour fiets the news from the eas by canal, and a mighty slow canal at that. The city should appoiut somo ono to notify flour wiien wheat goes down." Newfoundland's s(aling voyage this yearhae 1 d uueommonly prosperous. Viesselsof the fleet have air eadyrêtiuitei with full cargoes, the cargo of óne1 oi them beiug 27,000 furs. Her voyage lasted only fifteen dftys. All of the vt-ssi-ly were propellcd by stearn, stnamers having been found more proíitnble Iban 8niling vesscls. Only half as matiy men as Wiiv iiiiiii'i-Iy employed are iimv oèeded om the fleet. A vkky singular featuie in the mnrine landscapes befcweén Terre del Fuego md the contiguous mainland i.s the floatitig gan-leiiH 01 sea-weed, The plant l'requently grows to a lenth of betwèèn 300 and 400 fee.t. It gives cover and paetuxoge to every species of crustuci;i, gretit and smull, while the mtertajigW imiss, swaying like a poimcroiiH 'iirtain in thewatpr, effeottjolly breaks the kIid.-u OÍ the mj.Ht tremendous rollers.