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OülO fM orfgínally apellcd Ojo. Steam cultrVfttion oí laúd i increnemg in Enrope. Fbance exporta $17,OO0,WUt oTitter annually. Chestmts are selling iu thc EwtUft $2.50 per bushel. A negro lawyer has a suceessful - tice in Joplin, Mo. The Snpreme Court of Texas is x hind only 1,800 cases. In China -wheat is eown quite close in seert-beds and afterward transplanted, TiiÉ State of Virginia offera a bounty of $1 íor tlie scalp oí every gray fox, and $1.50 for red caes. Fon the year ending June 1, 12,000,. 00o pounda of dried applen were exponed from Ibis country. Massachusett has about 1,200 kinds of flowering planta and 4,900 varietiesof insecto tliat feed on planta. The valuation of the State of Nw York for tlie year 1877 aggregates $2,255,739 318, an increaae of $289,473,040 over 1876. ElGHTï-ONE THOfSAND paBSR.TgCK aailed from New York during the las year. JMore than one-fourth landeiá EDgland'lo i a pretty girl putting on a postage-statfflj) makes a fellow wish lie aj the Father of hia Country, or even Ba Franklin. A New Hampshike farmer has miseá from two heans, planted this season, 1,670 beana; one utalk produced 990, the other 690. It haa been found in Hawaii and Tahiti that Chinamen are cheaper to maintain, and lesa aptto be discontented,thau Irisíi or Germán workmen. The Dutch are ritill at war in Acheeu, and lately lost two officers and sixty uien -while eighty -were wounded. Tlie Aoeenese lost only thirty-eight killed and v'ounded. A cui."10178 ae 8eems e n "torefor the isle o' Elba. It ia to be visited soot by the ItaL 'n Ministers of Interior and Marine, who ':ontemplato establislúng t large pènal col.W tüereThe horna of the Abyssinian ox are nea'ly fonr f eet loi% and se ven inchesit diameier at Üieirbasc The Abyssmin búllalo iscu-mble the of our oxea, and two will áW S much as te horses. The official census statÍ8tiiR shorvthat of the 25,742,404 inhabitantó .of Pnf in 1875, 16,636,990 returned tlifc1 as belonging to the Evangélica! :Síu church, and 8,525,000 as Boman and Catholics. Somebody has published anonymoutr ly at Leignitz a book showing thtiS ut Colorado beetlc, the phylloxcrn, thelocust and the cattle plague are the apolvptical horsemen mentioned in Reveffctions vi. : 2-8. The enduring odor of musk is marvolons. Wlien Justinian, in 538, rebuilt what is now the mosque of St. Sopliia, the mortar was charged with musk, and to this day the atmosphere of the building is filled with the odor. The Jcivish Mi-tscngcr thinks tliere is something inexpret'sibly humorous-ii therewere nothing more senoiw and saddening in the fact--that both Knssia and Turkey fight for .+h P with borrowed weapons ani WW1 bonds.