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lx Eussia there is literally no (Iemand for books. The pipe and cigar aro the cause of many conflagrations. Pj.aying football by electrio lights is all the rage in England. Ax Irishman tlieil at Boston, the other day, at the age oí 1U3. A wcejise for a Protestant marriagei in Buenos Ayres cost nearly $500. Indiarubbeii is to be mado in Ontario from the juice of the milk-woed. Good locomotives, tlnit used to bring $24,000, can now be bonght for $7,000. The sexton of Dagenham pnrish, Essex, in England, was buried alive whüe digging a grave. Lkt nu be merry now: 'tis Urne; The aeanou in at liaud For ChrittmaH rhynie anti Chriatnia.s chime - Close up and iorm the buud. Two geese went over Niágara falls, last week, and came out alive and uuinjured just bolow the rápida. God save you all, tfood peopïo, May nothinfiyou disraay; God send you all fair blcsglngii On Christmas day. Of the 2,000,000,000 of cigars now annually consumed in this country, about 90 per cent. are of home manufacture. AccoRDixa to the Lunsumie Gazeüe, 33,467 Swiss emigrated between 1868 and 187G, of whom 31,345 came to thia country. Ohio means "beautiful;" Iowa, "drowsy ones;" Minnesota, "cloudy water," and Wisconsin, "wild, rushing cliannel." Billixgsgate, the great London fish market, one of the busiest, noisiest and most odoriferous of all places on earth, is to be lighted by electricity. Türkeys are selling for from 35 to 50 cents a pair at Quebec; fowls are 35 cents a pair; mutton is 4 cents a pound, and butter is from 10 to 15 cents. The women were allowcd to vote on the lager-beer-option question ;it Plyinouth, N. H., the other day, and tho sale of the liquor was prohibited by a vote of three to one. A spirit morchant in Dublin announees in an Irish paper tliat he has still a small quantity of the whisky on hand which was drank by George IV. when in Dublin. A Connecticut wife wants a divorco because her husband bound her with a rope, poured kerosene oil over her, and threatened to burn her up. He replies that he was only enforcing proper obedienco. The London Timen doubtsif any one ever excelled Mr. Gladstone in profusión of utterance. At his age Brougham,. marvellously effusive with mouth and. pen up to 50, had nearly ceased to bO heard. The United Presbyterian Church in North America, as appears by their last annual report, has 057 ministers, 791 congregation8, 78,748 church inembers, and contributed last year to foreign missions $47,551.01. The Liverpool pólice have boen requested to keep a sharp lookout for any consignment of a suspicious character by steamer from thiü side, in case that Mr. Stewart's remains s.hould have been sent over for safe-keeping. TURNED CARMELITE. What will the Old Year ttive to me Af the last, beat gift of a d in? hand? Not what it took, not whM it tooit. How eau it bring that fatal harm. The bloom of flesli that is dead. and The (trace of limb and the liglilot look? What will the New Year gïye to me As tho wooinK jfift of a lat'-st MvoAí All tliat I crave. all that I rrave. If it lad me swiftly alotiii tho way. But ouo step nearer Uw. grat'ions end. lu the soft, weet gloora of the open gravo. OXE HT'NDRED AND TWO SOCietieS, twenty-eight newspapers and eightyeight books and pamphlets Lave been prohibited in Germany since the pr mnlgationof the Anti-Socialist law. In Northern Germany there is but one journal of Socialist proclivities left ; in Central aud Southern Germany there still remain eleven. All these have changed their names since the new law, and try to conceal their bias;