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The lntest official oensus givea Itnly a population of 26,801,151: souls. OniT two life insurance companies aro authorised to take riRks in Texas. Colorbd people aro leaving Mississippi in considerablo numbers for the West, Cïtop rfiports froin all parta of California, with a few exceptions, are most favorable. The way to set up housekeeping nowa-days is' to buy a grand piano and a second-hand cooking stove. Thb Hessian fly only flourishes in damp or wet seasons, while the chinch bug flonrishes in dry years. The photograph building on the Oenténnial groundi?, Philadelphia, whicli cost $15,000, was sold lately for $410. It is calcnlated that, at the present rate of destruction, the pine forests of this country will be oxhausted in thirty to flfty years. Thb silver product of Montana thie year will reach into the millions. The United States Assay Office at Helena is very active. Oven 250,000 American utoves are now distributed over Great Britain and Ireland. They are considered excellent in every respect. The first Oxford and Cambridge boat race took place in 1829. The Oxford crew produced two Bishops, two deans, and a prebendary. The shipment of 600,000 pounds of buffalo hides from Fort Worth, Texas, this spring, indicates the extent of the winter's slaughter on the plains. Ajï ewe, owned by Mr. A. Staley, of Wolfo Island, Ont. , recently gave birth to flve lambs of uniform size. Three of them died, but the other two are well. The country has 8450,000,000 invested in 10,000,000 milch cows, whose annual product is worth $275,142,585, when the last cotton erop was worth only $200,000,000. Andre Gatithier is creating a sensation in Paris by painting a landscape in five minutes, a portrait in six, and nlso by painting two pictares simultaneoui'ly, one with each hand. The of Georgia has contracted with ex-Gov. Brown to take the labor of convicts for twenty years from 1879 for $500,000, to be paid tho State in yearly installments of $25,000. An organ of the tobáceo trade asserts that if the tobáceo coosumed anmially, about 4,000,000,000 pounds, could bo made into a roll two inches in diameter, it would encircle tho world sixty times. A fish-peddIiBR was charged recently, in an English Pólice Court, with violently kissing the wife of a surgeon who was one of his customers. The raagistrate sentenccd him to two months' imprisonment. A dry-goods merchant in Troy, N. Y. , advertíses to pay Iberailroad fares of all who come from Albany to trado in his storo, end to pay for their dinner in the best hotel in the city. The rivalry between Troy and Albany is spirited. Tea was first introduced into Europe in 1660, by the Dutch East India Company, and then only as a curiosity, ehowing the nature of the herb so universally used by the Chinese in the preparation of their so-muoh-loved beverage. Yovxa girls do nofc nnderstand the witchery of bright eyes and rosy lips, but set off their beauty by all the artificial means iu their power, never reflecting that by doing so they destroy their principal charm- that of innocence. The assertion is made by the Rochester Express that, at a rifle match in that city, spectators were able with the naked eye to see tho bullets as they wout from the guns to tbe targets. There was a high wind, and rain was falling. Arr affable gentleman entered the Bank of Jacksonville, Fla., and engaged the cashier in conversation, loudly bewailing the sad state of the oountry. Meanwhile a confedérate slipped in, Btole $7,500 from the safe and escaped. It now turns out that J. W. Daniels, who was recently hung at Warrensburg, Aio., for tho murder of Miller, was entirely innocent, and his father is instituting proceedings against the parties who bronght it about. It was a case of circumstantial evidence. Some signs of tavems in Londou are curious, viz. : "Goat and Compasses," "Salmón and Compasses," "Auchor and BodicoH," "Buil and Mouth," "Green Mau and Still," " Pig and Whistle," "Who'd a Thonght It?" "The Splendid Shilling," etc. Probablt the only person in the country who has observed overy anniversary of President Lincolu's death is a Mrs. Hume, of Portland, Me., who drapes her house inside and out with crape and displays an American flag with each recurrence of the day. Frank Mtntrnr, son of the famoua temperance advocate, said in a recent speech: " I 'm heartily in favor of tho Moffett bell punch, and I think it's the best thing ever invented in tho shape of a restrictios of the liquor trafile. I wish that it could be put in use in all the States." The diamouds of ex-Queen Isabella of Spain are to be sold in Paris at auction next July. They are now depositod in the Bank of Franco, an J, as the owncr is no longcr likoly to particípate in grand cercmonials, she prefers oujoyiüg the interest of tho hoavy um tliey would rcalize, rathor than have them lie improductivo.