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Qüeen Victoria is 57 yenrs old. The base-ball íeyer i catching. The earth weighs 5,885,000,000 toni?. Alabama -whcat-crops are promising. The population of Dublin is 250,000. Texas taxes circuses out of the State. The Swiss army numbers 120,000 men. Repb onions prevent lips from chapping. Illinois Las 41,000 square miles coaleds. New York city arresta average 1,500 a week. Deobbase of importa thi yéar, $40,500,000. Colobed handkerchiefshave gone out of vogue. Counterfeit silver dollars are in culation. Millstones made of glass are a Germnn novelty. Vebï few imported carpets are now sold in this country. CniNA is now one of the first coal countries in the world. Virginia claims the fincst wheat prospect ever seen in the State. The Cincinnati Gazeite is to have a new office six stories high. Boucicault, the actor, is building a $100,000 yacht at New York. It is proposed to organizo a tuiloresses' unión at San Francisco, Cal. A goslino with four wings rnns about the streets of Natchez, There are in this country about 700 carpet-making establishnients. The Cincinnati authorities are trying to close the theaters on Sunday. The manufacture of base-balls employs 300 workmen at Natick, Mass. A new order prohibits British naval officers froui writing letters to newspapers. The California Legislatura has passed a bilí admitting women to practice law in all the courts of that State. The new edition of the dictionary of the French Academy contains 2,200 words and 28,000 lines more than the edition of 1835. The fact came out in a trial in San Francisco the other day that a woman had carried $20,400 in greenbacks in her bustle for nearly six months. "Be honest, pay your debts, keep your temper, and nvoid strong drink," was Evangelist Moodj's farewell advice to his New Haven congregation. Bret Harte has contributed his lougest and most ambitious poem, a love story called ' ' Cadet Grey, " to tho new Wesfc Point book, " Military Tictacs." Close imitations of silver dollars are made of block tin, bismuth and pulverized glass. An immeDse number of these bogus coins are in circulation. Bishop Whittle, Episcopalian, of Virginia, is out with a vigorous condemnation of round dancing, which, he says, is an abomination that he is tshamed to particularly describe. Jefferson Davis has been acting as umpire for two Mississippi men who dif=agreed in politics, andappliedabusive epitheta to eacb other. He decided that both ought to apologize, and they did so. Owing to the decline of railway buildiug during the last flve years, the aggregate sales of iron and steel railo, the product of the United States, was laat year only 764,709 tons against 1,000,008 tons in 1872. Fame ís tardy in reaching some men, but if a man is deserving it is bound to strike him sooner or later. A Berks county editor has had a blue and red canal boat named af ter him. - Norristown Jierald. The Paris Tuileries Commission has recommended tho restoration of the ruined palace at a costof about $800, OC0 and the appropriation of it to a museum of modern art. The Chambers will be asked to sanction this scheme. A French scieutiflc authority states that the ordinary rato of a man's walkiag is four feet per second ; of a good horse in harness, twelve; of a reindeer in a sledge on the ice, twenty-six; of an English raee-horse, forty-tiiree ; of a hare, eignty-eight ; of a good sailing ship, fourteen; and of the wind, eightytwo. A phtsioian of Eochester, N. Y. , says that the girls of that town are very pretty, and grow in grace and loveliness until they are about 18 or 20, when they get pale, looking and faded, " going all to piceos at 26." Among the causes of their deterioration he enumerates the lack of exercise in tlie open air, tight lacing, round dances, and too niuch study. Hon. Thomas M". Marshall, of Pittsburgh, wbilo trying a case at Bcaver, Pa., recently, was handed a note by a man named Cameron, inviting him to mortal combat with Columbiads, ten paces apart. Cameron is supposed to be insaue. He was formerly a lawyer, and was at one time Governor of Kansas, under President Buchacan's admiuistration.