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5
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October
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1877
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New EkoiíAnd has $750,000,000 in her . savings bauks. California wants a hundred . iral colouicK f rom the Enst. Out of the Iittle town of Uirhraoud, i nd., a third-ruto ciiviiB sooopod #5, (XX). i A Texan has oontrived a machine for ' ;aking wood on trains without their ' )ing. In 1825 tlicro were only eighty-four churches in New York city. Now there are 489. The two mulos that ilrew the wagon n which Jefferson Davis was oaptured ïave been bumed to death in Atlanta. A Memphis negro bonght a coat for ive dollars on credit, and sold it for ifty cents in cash, so as to go to a circus. Jüdoe Mobrow, of Jefferson couuty, Ala., has been impeached before tlio Supreme Court for habitual drunkenness. A síes old Chinese woman was fonnd in an abandoned house in Eureka, Cal., whero lier relativos had left her to starve 0 death. Caleb Cüsiiing and some of bis neighsors in Newburyport went fishing and caught 2,000 mackerel and 200 cod in welve hours. The local authorities of twenty towns 'i England are considering the proprie;y of substituting petroleum for gas in ;he public streets. If one saw how macaroni was made by lirty Italians, in filthy shambles in Soutii Fifth avenue, nobody would eat it, says a New York paper. A FA3M-HAND for harvesting is paid in Central Italy 7 cents a day, and considers himself a fortúnate man to ünd employment at that rato. The forests of North Carolina produce two species of oak, eight of pine, nine of spiuce, seven of magnolia, eight of hickory, and five each of elm and birch Land-ownebs along the Sacramento rivcr have, in a convention, resolved not to employ Chinamen, and to induce others to cease giving hem employment and sclling thora land. In Kentucky the constant roar of small arms in the comfields reminds one of a long-continued battle. Tho owners of the fields havo to defend them against the ravages of aquirrels. Francisco LorEZ, on trial in Corpus Christi, Texas, was set npon in court and choked aímost to death by thD mother of the man whom he was accuscd of murdering. The Mammoth caves of Kentucky nre to bo connected with the outer world by a railroad, and a modern hotel will be built near them, news which caimot fffll to be welcome to tourists. The nation is a great creditor as well as debtor. The. six Pacific railroads- Union, Central, Southern, Kansas, Sioux City and Western- owc it 392,030,751, wliich pays no intrrest until maturity in 1897. A win of boot hists have boen made for Leonárd Wilcbt, óf Rome, N. Y., wlio is seVen föBt in height, and weigha (i00 pouuds. The Irsts aro twonty-two juches in length, Keven in height, and eightcen arouud the instcp. Jüdoe Biddle, of the Supremo Court of Indiana, lias invented a musical instrument somewhat like a violin, and ealled a tetracliord. It may be made in different sizes, so that twclve instrumenta will constitute a full striug band. A iíesolition has been adopttód by the Flat River Baptist Association, of Noith Carolina, requeating tlio churclics to report the nuniber of moderate diinkera irniong cbureh members, and the amount of liquor distilled liyclmrch raembers. An Englishman who lias made a but of L50,000 that he will in six yeara walk through Franco, Germany, North Kussiu mul Síberíá to China, has started from Calais on bis journoying. His bet obliges him to return through India, Persia and Southern Kussia, and from there over Grooei1 and Italy to Franco. Ho must be in Liverpool by the lstof July, 1883. A correspondent trom the scat of war, on the Kussian side, writes to a London paper: " Put a Turk in a diteh, give him a gun, a saeiful of caitridges, a loaf of bread, and a jug of water, and he will remain there for a week or a month under the most dreadf ui artillery fito that can be directed against him, witliout flinching." Mr. Watts, the authorized dog-catcher of Boston, uses for the destruction of unclaimed dogs a most subtlo poison, recommended by the Society for the Prevention of Cruclty to Animáis, and whicli he is forbidden to make public, through fear of its use for suicidal purposes. A half teaspoonful of tho powder is put in tho dog's mouth, and ahnost instautly the body swells and life is extinguished. Prince Bismarck appears to be a tborougbly iinpartial person. A military frisad gave him an elabórate disquisition the other day on the deeds, errors and chances oí tlie Russian and Tnrkish armies, and, when lie concluded, asked tlie Prince plainly what he thought about them. Bism;irck answered with this laconic sentence : "I thiuk that oach army is getting the thrashing it deserves I It is estimated that in tho world there oxists, in a population of 350,000,000, steam engines aggregating the power of 14,400,000 horses, of which the United States, haviug 40,000,000 population, owns at least one-third of tlie engines, or 4,800,000 horse power. This is, in round number, thirty Europeans have steam power to the extent of one horso to multiply their productiou, while the same numbers of Amoricans would have to the extent of four horses. Gen. McCleIíIiAN says, in Har per' a Magazine, that our army loses a largor proportion of officers killed in time of pcace than the British army loses in peacp and wur togethcr. Taking the number killed in the halt century from 1804 to 1854, and ikduct-ing the wars of 1812, of Mexico, of Florida, and the Black Hawk, and consider the interveninp; poacoful periods, the percentage of' killed is greator to tho wholc force tliun that of tue British nrmy in the Baï&Q period, though (rreat Britnin was at war nearly the whole time. A LITTJE GIRL'S SONG OF AÜTUMN. The autumn han flllcd me with wonder to-dny, 'l'br wind Hor-niH fo naii, while thfi trees look fio gay ; The nky is so blue, wbilo llrliU are bo brown, Vllilc bripht leavee and brown leavefi drift all tUrongh the town. I wiíh I could lell why the world rlutngcn eo : lint I ani a Iittle Rirl- I oannot know ! The nu rinC8 late, and then Roes down eo eoon, 1 think it irt eveniiiK br-fore it is noou ï Of tlie birda and tlie flowers harlly one can le. fonnd, ThougU the titile brown eparrowB Btay all the year round. I wiKh I could teil you wherc all tlie birdsgo; But I au a Iittle fjirl- I unnot kuow ! O utmnn ! why baniih Buch brlffht thiiiK as Uiey? Pray turn the world nently ! don't carelhera away ! And now they aro goue, will you hrin;: Ihem :i : ;iin ? If tbey come in the spring, I niay not bc here then. ffby go they po swiftly - 1hen come baokH)8lO0F? Oh, l'ni but a Iittle girl !- I eannot know! . llurr-siKiciu in IiHSsia and Turkoj. According to the reports of travelers in Tnrkey and llnssia, tliey seem to have vory awkward wtiys of shoeing horsos in thoso countries, compared with the simple method prevalent in America. In Turkey the horse's head is held by one man, auother holds the leg, while a third operates on tho foot. In Eussia the horse is placed in a rough wooden cago and firmly strapped to cross-bars of the frnme-work; his head is also tied, and the foot is fastoned to a stake in the ground, and held by an attendaut whilo tiie arnith puta on ujo büoo, The Ureat Wall of China, The great wall of China ws mensured ia mauy places by Mr. Unthank, an Vmeriean engineer, latcly engaged on i Burvey for n Chinese railroad. I[j„ measurements givo the. height at oigli. fccou feet, and n width ou top of f. loen fcet. Every few huudred yasdi there is towcr twenty-four ' tfnA square, and from twenty to forty-flve [eet liigh. Tlio foundation of the w,..!] is of Holid granite. Mr. Uuthunk brought witli him a briek from the wall which is snpposed to have been rnado 200 years before the time of Christ. In building thia immense stone fi ■;.,-,. to keep out the Tarturs, the bnildrrs never attempted to avoid mountaing ut chasms to save expense. For 1,300 miles the wall goes over plain and mountain, anl every foot of the foun: dation is in solid granife, and the rest of the structure solid masonry. Ju some places the wall is built smooth up against the bank, or canons, or precipices, whero thcre is a sheer -doscent of 1,000 feet. Smnll streams are archcd over, but in the largor f.treams the wall ruus to the water's edge, and a tower is built on each side. Ou the top of the wall thcro are breastworkt, or defenses, facing in and out, ao the def end ing forcé can pass from one towet to another without being exposed toan encmy from either side. To calcúlate the time of building or cost of tbis wall is beyond human skill. So faras the magnitude of the work is concorned, it surpasses everything in ancient ot modern times of which there is any trace. The pyramids cf Egypt are aotliing compared to it. - London News. Attaché! by Bees. Yesterday, Mrs. Henry Smith, living eight miles northwest from this city, went iuto the yard, accompanied by her litóle daughtor, a child 7 years of age, to pet some honey. The box containing the hive is an ord'uary patent arrangement, Tlth drawers. In slipping one of them out Mrs. Smith was stung by a bee. Tlie shock aüd pain caused her to jerk bet hand back quickly, and lier elbow, striking anotlier box, knocked it over, causiig it to fall to tho ground and buret open. In an instant she and the child wcre literally covered with a swarm of insecti, which stung them on the face, neck and arms, and, indeed, nenrly all over th body. Fnghtened and crazed with pain, they started to run, but they were blindcd by the bees, and it was ten mimites before they succeeded in gettingmtotlie house and free from the swarm. It m then discovered tiiat they wcre stung tí most to death. In less than an hour tM f iices were swollen out of all recognitioo, and Mrs. Smith had become insensible from her injuries. A doctor was sentía aud every possible remedy applied; bnt this morning both motherandcliililwtp in ft very precariouR conditiou, and aöt ons fenr were entertained tliat their injuries would prove fatal. - scdalin [Mo.) Democrat. A Bovine Wonder. Mr. C. S. Foster has the most precocious calf on record. But fifteen briof months have tumblcd into eternity bíii its advent upon this mundano gphttkj and yet tliat calf knows a great du more about some tliings than tho average human adult. It answerS to i's ïrjiuc aud knows its owner's dog anj cliildrcn acrosa a ten-acre patch. The calf, from its birth until yesterday, bad browscd nt large some three milcB from town, and lial never mingled in the bustle and stir of city h'fe. But, lo Bil b'hold ! early yesterday morning tbai oaÖ stxxl at the gato of Mr. ïostcr'i residence in the city, peering wistfiill? thr:mgh the pickets. Nobody hml told it the niimber of the dweiling, and ncbody was awnre of having gnidod it tl uto. lts nativo cenius seems to havo

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