All Sorts

Thb valué of Peter' s Pence and other offerings made to Pius IX. amounted to no less than $95,000,000 in all. Thirteen million DOiiiiAJis' worth of eggs were imported into Eogland in 1876, and they still cry for more. An oyster shell, weighing 5J pounds, has been fonnd in the Diablo moontains, Cal., 4,000 feet above sea leveL Where the división between the toes is not complete, and they are partially joined, they are called twin toes. They are reputed to be very lucky. "The biscuit," saya a newspaper writer, " is the national gastric clog, the huge sporcgerm of self-propagating and self-perpetuatmg dyspepsia." There does not seem the least liklihood that the Paris Exhibition will be finished before Jnly, at the earliest. France is more backward than most of its gueats. The Assyrian inscriptions reveal the fact that nnder the Babylonian Kings it was common to cast men alive into a burning fiery furnace, and also iiito a den of iiouf. A GiRi,, worKing at the Georgia Houso, at Desbier, Ohio, ate fifty raw eggs in flfty minutes, a few days ago, for a wager of a calicó dress and the payment of the eggs. In Agra and Oude, Britiah India, the number of the starving is very great, offlcers reporting in the latter country that they find the water courses strewed with dead bodies. The British Medical Journal say that there has been a case of recover from a genuino attack of hydrophobi at the Chalmsford infirmary. This i the first on record. Berlín has a popnlation of 894, 0C Protestants, for whom there are bu thirty-four churches and ninety-fiv ministers - that is one shepherd to flock of 8,463 sheep. Peop. C. V.' KiiiEY, the distinguishec entomologist, has been appointed en tomologist to the Department of Agr culture at Washington, and will ente upon his new duties at once. Between November, 1871, and th present date, a period of six and one half years, no less than twenty-onesav ings banks in the city of New Yor have been declared insolvent. The Rnsso-Turkish war was declare on April 24, 1877, and peace wa signec Maren 3, 1878, 313 days afterward. Th cost per day is estimated by a Russia authority at about $1,750,000. A Chinaman feil into a flume in Placerville, Cal. , was swept with frigh ful velocity through a tunnel 800 fee loDg, and dropped forty feet into a can on, but he was not mueh hurt. There bas not been snow enough i the Northern Pacific country during th past year, if it hould come all ia on f all, to obstruct a train, or even a hanc car, for five minutes at any point on th road. Sincs the suicide of Sultan Abdul-Assiz, in 1876, Turkey has had two Sultaus, five Ministers, forty Cabinet Ministers, one constitución, one Parliamenfc, one war, lost three-fourths of ite provinces, and been forced into bankruptcy. Attempts are about to be made, under the auspices of tlie British Government, to open up more ports along the seaboard of India, in the hope of obtaining improved facilities for the distribution of food in case of future famines. Coii. Kisgsbury of Chicago was killed atSbarpsburg. In 1871 his estáte was appraised at 1,250,000. There was one heir, a boy. In seven years, lawyers and guardians have so managed the estate that the heir's boarding-school bill cannot be paid. Gov. Emory, of Utah, says that polygamy is on the decline among the Mormons, not through any change of sentiment, but because the wives have taken to extravagance in dress. More than one. wife is now an expensive luxury in Salt Lake. A GENTLEMAN just returned fromBrazil reporta dissatisfaction nmong the laborers who sailed from Philadelphia. The Italians, as soon as they arrived on the Mamora river, began a strike for wages. A demonstration was suppressed by the older laborers, and the refractory ones imprisoned. A report has been made to the British Parliament on the practicability of removing the Eddystone rocks without rebuilding the lighthouse tliereon. To obtain the safe minimum depth of seven fathoms it wonld be necessary to remove over 100,000 yards, or in all 2,000,000 tons of rock, at a cost of not less than 2,500,000. By a late report prepared by the Commissioner of Agriculture from investigafcions and estimates made in January [ast, the total number of hogs in the United States dnring the past nine years is stated as follows: 18T8 33,2V2,5()n;1873 8?,632,050 1877 2S,077,l(l(l : 872 31,7% 3C0 1876 .25.726 8C0; 1871 29,457,600 1S75 28,1-62,200 1870 29,751,600 1874 30,860,900