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The devil-fish has three hearts. GiiASS is gradually Bupplanting paper in Japanese household goods. The ortiDge product in Florida for the year 1877 was 17,000,000 orangee. The Czar's army was tho flrst Christian force seen in Sophia since 1434. A hospital i to be started in Paris ander the charge oí female surgeons. Oaxipobkia. has 60,000,000 acres in vineyards, and manuiactures annually 10,000,000 gallons of wine. A Bill is bcfore the Mississippi Legislature to exempt from taxation all lands in the State cultivatcd in fruit, grass and grain. During the year 1877, 42,260 paupers in Indiana weke cared for at the expense of the Tarious countic s in the State at a cost of $600,626. The Musser family, of Center county, Pa., flve in number, weighs 1,185 pounde. The lightest weiglis 223 pound and the heaviest 2l. The Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition is not so badly off as it might be. The expenses during the past year werp only $82,593 in excess of the receipts. Mus. Van Hokn, of Waupaca, Wis. , has a cat which is 20 years and 3 months oíd. It has raised and sent out into the world of bootjacks and coal-ECuttles 206 cats. A BBSoiiüTioN has been introduced into the Virginia House of Delegates to amend the revenue laws so as to impose a tax of 1 cent on every cigar sold in the State. Fii'lï miIíTjIons of dollars nro inrolved indirectly in the suit uonirueiiced in the Supreme Court at Buffalo for the foreclosures of the mortgages of the Atlantic and Great Western railway. Kesidinq near York, Pa., is a farmer who has kept a record of the number of trumps vi6iting his premises. From April 1, 1877, to Nov. 18 there 545, an average of sixteen per week. The Methodist Episcopal Ohurch has, in nine conferences in Illinois, 124,000 members, and leads all the denominations. The Baptists, who are second on the list, have 80,000 members. The Mormons are building a magnificent temple on the aumtnit of a high mountain in Manti, Utah. Five hundred men are at work on it, and it will not be completed for four years; The British Mail, a monthly flnancial publicatiou, Bays, in a review of the general commercial depressiou, that up to the present time the United States seems to have suffered motst and France least. " Wht don't you look where you're going?" said two men simultaneously on the Bowery, in New York, the other day, as they ran agains t each other. It required the aid of a bystander to keep them from a quarrel. A woman in West Winsted, Conn., bas lost two brothers by murder and one by drowning, a brother-in-lawby wounds in battle, a husband by a stroke of apoplexy, and a son in the recent railroad disaster at Tariffville. The good result of rigid inspection of steam boilers is shown in Pennsylvania, where there has not been a single accident the past year, thongh repairs were ordered in forty-eight cases where explosión were liable to occur. In the United States over 2,500,000 of the industrious poor have deposited $1,377,000,000 in savings banks. Of this vast sum, over $300,000,000 is iuvested in United States bonds, besides what is invested in State and city bonds. The annual income of the Church of England is $36,000,000. The church bas 16,000 religious edifices, including 30 cathedrals, 10,000 glebehouses, 31 Episcupai puiacKS, ana ,ikju,1UU acres of land, much of it in good condition for til lage. A cremated dog weighing fifty-four pounds gave two pounds and two-thirds of an ounce of ash in seven and a half hours. Therefore, it is computed that a man weighing 160 pounds will yield six pounds six and one-twelfth ounces of ash. Forty thoüsand bids have been received for carrying the mails the next four years, in nearly all that portion of the United States lying west of the Mississippi river, and extending to the Paciiic ocean. The awards are to be made on March 30. A company has been formed for the construction of a tunnel under Detroit river, for the purpose of connecting the Canadiau and American shores at Detroit. It is intended to commence operations as soon as Congress grante the requisite permission. The last report of the Pennsylvania Secretary of Internal Affairs shows tliat there are in Pennsylvania 168 collieries, employing 16,629 hands, who last year mined 176,227,220 bushels of coal. There are used 46,745 acres of land for mining purposes. A PKOPOsrnoN is being seriously considered to dam the Arkansas and Platte rivers, and thus turn the waters into the great desert of the western part of Kansas and Nebraska, whence, by tapping the artificial lake, streams may be secured for irrigating purposes. The winter of 1829-'3O surpassed the present one in mildness. Farmers plowed every month of the season, and no siiow feil uutil Feb. 2. It was followed, however, by a cold, backward spring, with a snow-storm in May which killed the refurniug swallows.