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Saxony cheese is made of potatoes. New York has 10,995 retail liquordealers. Take time, think long and well be'ore you accept any proposal. Eiohteen families in New York count up $240,000,000 among them. Tira new dam on the Ohio river at Pittsburgh will cost $1,000,000. The culinary art forms a part of the education of women in Germauy. More than 11,000 applications for the war of 1812 pensions have been filed. Italian and French agente are buying all the American tobáceo lliey can get. The first large temperance convention in this country was held about the year 1854. San Antonio, Tex., has only sounded its fire-alarm bell once in eighteen years. They are amusing themselves in San Diego, Cal., killing rattlesnakes on the streets. Waiting to be whipped is the most uninteresting period in boyhood. - J. Billings. Ferns and weeds and the rankest of wild ílowers aro reproduccd in miUinery this season. Tira camcls imported into Texas from África in 1854 are doing well and are found to be useful. France has oponed negotiations with the Bey of Tunis for the annexation of that country to Algiers. In New York a girl, not of age, is suing a boy, not of age, for breach of promise, and wants $20,000. Geoege Kacfman believes that men should not seek to im prove on nature. God made the world for us to inhabit, and it is sacrilegious not to accept all things jnstfie He f ashions them. Thercfore Kanfman sieeps in a hollow tree near Dallas, Tex., wears no clothing, and eats uncooked mcats and vegetables. Beer is strong in the present English Parliamcnt. Two Basses and two Alsopps sit in tho brewery iüterests, and another noted brewer, Mr. Hanbury, is to havo a seatrin tho House of Oommons. A third member of the fnmily of " pale ale" Bass has been defeatcd iu bis endeavor to get into Parliament. The school statistius of SouthCarolina show 45,144 white and 55, "92 colored cbilren atteuded the public schools of the State last year ; that is, there are 9,148 more colorcd children enjoying the advantages of the public schools in South Carolina than white chiltlrn. Of tUe teachers, 1,225 are white, aud 949 colored. Waterford, N. Y., has the champion absent-minded young womau. She was recently married, and a few days after had her furniture insured, but the next day appearcd before tho agent and wanted the policy ehanged, explaining that she had forgotten that she was married, and had had her maiden name inserted in the policy. A rope walker collected $7 from a cro",vd that had gathored in Catasauqua, Pa., to see him perform. He spent the moaey in a bar-room, an;l was drunk when the time carne for liis feat. The rope was stretched acros3 a street from the roofs of two houses. He started unsteadily, reached the center, and then feil. His recovery is improbable. The wife of a San Francisco machinist became a performer in a concert saloon, contrary to his wishes, and he decided to kill her. He prepared an explosive box, filled with gunpowder, fuse, matches, nails, bullets and paper soaked in oil, and sent it to her by express. There was no explosión when she opened it, üowever, tho mechanism failing to work as intended. Of two monks living together in the same houso in Catania, Sicily, one remained out recently rather late. The erring brother was recognized by a robber, who immediately went to the house and was admitted by the stay-at-home monk, over wlose mouth he tried to put a gag; but he ovor.lid the job by letting his linger slide in, too. That finger was bitten clean off, and preserved by the monk as corroborativo testimony. The Freemaris Journal, a Catholi paper, is out in a terrible denunciation of the Fenians. Itsays: "All faithful Catholic Irishmcn detest this contemptible sect. It Ï8 a pestiferous and wiked little clique of cvil-doers. It has been cursed by name by the Viear of Christ, and is marked all over by bad faith. Those only who want to have the f nn of being fooled in a very bad causo will give their money to these Fenians." A man in Harney county, Kansas, was plowing the other day, when a bird flew up and struck him above the eye with such force as to knock him off from the plow, cutting a fearful gash in the corner of his eye-brow, aud bruising the flesh below and around the evo so that in a few minutes it was bwoIIou shut. Previous to the accident he had been amusing himself striking at the birds with his whip, and, as he hantlles a whip well, he generally brought his bird.