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A grate nuisíince - Clinkers. Mb. Uro Hasii is a resident of Lebmon, Ky. Felt bonnets embroidered with golil iré among the uovclties. India contains 240,000,000 inhabitants, and 20,000 priests. A Lowell baboon died of frigbt. Saw bimself in the glass. The most successful settlers in Texas are said to be the Germana. A brother of George D. Prentice is qow a elerk in the Navy Department. Eastern salt works have declined on account of the richness of the Michigan salt wells. An Alabama girl rescued her father wbo jumped into a river with suicida] ntent. The gold mines of Georgia are said to produce not lessthan $1,000,000 bullion per annum. The trouble in Scotland is showing' itself in a serious fall in real estáte in Edinburgh. Tuf. average daily shipment of oysters from New York to Europe is over 1,000 barrels. At a charade party at Bt. Matthews, S. C, a mad dog nished in and bit three young women. California has eight national banks, representing about $5,000,000, capital and surplus. Oregon is waking up to the importance of lier chipmunk erop. Their hides make nice kid gloves. A gentleman of San Quentin. Cal., is the possessor of a white humming bird, caught recently by his son. Wolves have destroyed one-third of the reindeer of the Lapps tliis summer, and nearly all the young ones. The Chinese language is spoken by 350,000,000. The English language is spoken by from 80,000,000 to 85,000,000. Thirty-one distilleries and fixtures 450 stands, and 32,000 gallons of beer and a lot of whisky were captured by revenue offleers in Iredell county, N. C. A Brooklyn youug lady was tripped by soine mischievous boys, who had strung a wire athwart the sidewalk, and died fiom the eflects of the " accident." Boston's imports in 1878 were $36,010,759 as compared with $47,720,664 in 1877. Her exporta in 1878 were $49,938.465 as compared with $43,563,229 in 1877. The medical authorities of Xew York city now concede the scarlet fever to be tpidemic, and report a total of 218 cases for last week, and for the year 1878 a total of 3,802 cases. There are 272 telephone stations under the direction of the Germán postofflee authorities. The instrumenta work perfectly over line fifty kilometres long - say thirty-two miles. In St. Joseph, Mo., a city of 30,000 inhabitants, a big gray wolf carne out from its den under a slaughter house, one day last week, and attacked a boy, who beat it off, got a gun and killed it. Three singular cases of defective visión are reported from Ocracoke island, N. C. Three children of James Howard become totally blind eaeh day immediatelj af ter the sun goes down. hey retire, sleep soundly until after 'f:unrise, when their sight is restored.