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28
Month
September
Year
1877
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IrjjiNots farmers aro overruu with ightning-rod nu-n. Cinoinnati eousumed 52,000 barrels of beer during August. A ï'nii'Kis that rücasurcs over six feet iu eircnmïorenco, and weighs aboyó 200 pounds, is uow growiug on a farm iu California. (iiNiNi: is uow so high iu price in Éurope that doctors aro using instead the (iqiiid 'éöïntion of slrychnine, and fiud it nearly as efïïeucious aud mucli cheaper. It is estimatcd that tlie couuties of Htaflisöh, Montgomery, Clark, Scott, Bourbon, Fayetto aud Woodford, Ky., will furnish fchis year 32,000 hend of fat eattlo, valned at $3,000,000. TiiKitBare 300,000 inbabitunts iu San Francisco,1 and tho eurrent expenses of the city govcrumeut are $3,471,029. 84. Dcducting interest ou debt the actual expenses irë"$3,124,571.92. One flmi iu New York, engagod iu the manufacture of matches, consumes per annum 700,000 feet of white piue lumber, 100,000 pounds of snlphur, and 150 tons of straw board for boxes. It has been proycd iu Nevada aud other silver-producing States of the West that capital devoted to agriculttire pays better'and more regularly than if j)iit into gold and silver mines. A Parliahentary paper ou tho British income tx shows that the total amount of income tax eharged from tlie year ended the 5th of April, 18-43 (the first year it was imposed), was L267,731,528. It commenood at 7 penee in the pound," and realized L5,607,798; and last year it was 2 pence in the pound, and produced L4,032,402, or $20,000,000. Tiie Calvert Texan wants the 3,000 couvicts in the Texas penitentiary organized into a military corps like that commauded by Gen. Bosquet in the Crimean war, and turned loose upon Mexico. "Sons of heil," said Gen. líosquet, at the batüe of ïukermaun, to his conviet soldiTS, " you have no honor ; yon can make yoursclves sonie by dying for your couutry." Dn. Iít .siíi-Tj is no longer the great war correspondent. The jjre-eminence that v;is his belongs uow to Ai-chibald Förbos, .of tho Loudou JSfcwa, ivho, in enterprise as in the interest of hisbattlelicld pictures, took aud maintained the start from tho earliest hour of the war. He it was who conveyed to the Emperor his lirst knowledge of tlie exact condition of afïairs at Schipka when the fight was ftercest in that woful pass, and his teiegrams descriptive of the fcarful encountcr thorc were Jirst to reachjjoridon. Tiie Pittsbugh Post claims to have oxamiued with great care the actual losscs by the great railroad riot in that city, and assérts that tlie flnal awards will not vary far from the following : Hailroai) co)iiiany $l,5flO,(KK) FrcifiM ilestroyed 1,000,000 ETcTator 150,000 hVyslouö Hotel Gompany 100,000 l'uHuiiui (íitr Compaiiy L0,000 Prïvale iudividuais 100,000 ïotal i'2,930,000 An artesiau well, which has rcached to a depth of 1377 feet, is being bored at Charleston, S. C. Thirteen hundred and seventy feet of pipiug have been inserted, and as fast as the deptli is increased more piping will ba used, nutil a stratum is reached suük'ieutly hard to reuder this unnecessary. One smnll head of Avater has been rcached luit it was so small that it had to be shut ofl'. Sojie recent observers in Utah give the impression that tho Mormous make up a kind of " poor white" population, without schools, comfort, civilization or wealth, tvhile all the progresbivc farces in the territory, its public entorprises and its capftalj airé panding into Gentile hands. Brigham Young'8 eommunistic onterprises have all failed, anti he used to berate the faithful severely ou their " mtöcrable" condition. Onk of the tobáceo warehouses of Taducah, Ky. lias sold, sinoc Üie beginuiug of Ijusiness iu 1808, 79,648 hogsheacls of tobáceo. lts sales last year went 'over 14,000 hogshoads, and have rcached already this season, on a short erop, 7, l'20 hoKsheads, and will go to about ',),000 by tho close of tho season. This, if is clavrnca, is the largest business doneby iiny oue house in theworld ín the same time. l'.DMI'ND DK TÍOTilSCIIUiD ÍS about tO mai-ry Mlle. Adelaido de Iiothsehild, the tltálghter of Baron Willy de Iiothsehild, of Frankfort. Edmund do Bothsehild's fiither, lïaroi! James do líothschild, married liis own uiece, Botte, the daughter of Baron Solomon de Kotlischild. Nor brother's daughter -married Baron Willy do liothsehikl, aud uow her (ion is going to marry Baron Willj 's daughter. Thoy feem to bo ge,ttin'g considerably mixed. Du. W. lï. Baktlktt, of Jiew Haven, treats in the September number of the s'aniarian of. tho caijee of disease in. country homt's. 'Die causes are bad air, impuro water, impropor food and clothing, unsuitablc ' dwellings, and exhausting occupations. More attention is now given, Dr. ISartlett says, to healthful conditkns of lift in tho city than in the country, although tho couutry is more favorable to healfchif right condition s aro obseivod. Tuu f ree postal delivery system is now in operatioü in 87 principal eities and employs 2,205 carriern, who, during the last ü'scal year, handled 666,500,000 pieees of mail matter. The cost per piecc at Boston was 3 15-100 milis, at New York 2 37-100, at Philadelphia 2 8-100. The highest cost -was at Paterson, N. J., 4 5'J-IOO milis, and tho lowest at Ponghkoepsio, X. Y., 1 87-100. At Boston 40,000,000 pieces -were handled, at New York 146,000,000, at Philadelphia 109,000,000. Only 8,700,000 newspapers were delivered. MY LOVB. Her littlc hand iu ü)me I .would pot ih, Nor touch witli ouc caress her crown of goltl ; I wonld no; t-tir with 5ñy thopgbt of mr Her (loep, untroublrd pcace of purity. slir stands above jiio on a lioiUt serene, My pnrely Worshiped, conaecratert qn'pè'D ; Too prooions ftir Í hold the irlih lifeTo sta] tlo it with wbisiHü-etl ot wife. Eoye yel shtiü lifiht for me her vloid eyrs, liir tiiltcd choek protJaim love'B sweet surprise ; But now to tuiu-U Uac ioliis of hor attirc With revcrcnce is all that 1 clcsirc. - .( ï) no M. Hnwkwail, in Onfobcy A tUuilk. Tuk Cobden Club, of London, luis an .■[ff ivo membettihip of 603, nd an houorary inombersJiip of JS5. Sixty-thrte of its honorary membeis ate Americiin citizons, aud oidy three of that ïiumber are oi foreigu birth, nanioly, Cari Schurz, Huruiiton A. ilill, md William Downie. Amoug the otliers are Challes Francis Adams, Heury W. Longfellow, Williani Cuücu Bryunt, Gou. Garfield, Kalph Wnldo Emerson, W. E. Dodge, Henry Ward Beoolior, Cyrus Field und Edward Atkinson. A Warning: lo Smokers. A curieus case of poisouiiig by nicotine has occurred in Turin. Giovanui DelogoK, ugi'd 17, viited that city iu compliance with au iuvitation from liis uncle. After dining lic joined Iiis unele md spveral frit'tids in the room allottcd lim duriug his slay in Turin. There iiey drauk light wüie und sruoked con.inually uiitil tlic cuvly liours. When ;he company separated he Jid uot ceasc smoking uutil ucarly overeóme by sleep. ïis room was complctely impreguated vith smoke, uud tlic youug man, suffocated by the eScessive quantity of nicoiuehe had inhaled, never woke again, iltnough e.very eil'ort wasmauë to revive ïim. Dr. Tesfiier. of Turin, was of tho opiniou thut flfeáÍH was the resnlt of wisoniug by nicotine.

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