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Eichmond, Va., claims 79,000 inhabitants. Split horse-leather is made lip into shoes. In a London theater you pay 1 2 cents for a programme. The fashion plates that come from Paris are colored mowtly in the prisons by female convicta. The American Exchange gives a perfect recipe for honest legislation: " Give us honest legislators." The Liberian ship Azor has returned to Charleston, and will probably tako aiiother cargo of darkies to África. A vacuüm automatic brake lately test ed in England will stop in 500 yards a train running at sixty miles an hour. A man is going to have bis name stamped upon 50,000,000 toothpicks. That man's name will be in everybody's month. On an average 686 bodies are annually taken to the Paris morgue, and some 80 per cent. of these are recognized by their families. The poorest men are not without friends. A resident of Washington was escorted to the almshouse by sixteen faithful dogs. AiiotT $2,500,000 worth of iron, stone and briek buildings were erected in Boston last year, and $750,000 worth of wooden ones. Rents have fallen in Boston, and, in one case, a suit of chambers wliich formerly commanded $10,000 a year have been let for $2,000. Some of the apples sent out from Pelham, Mass., this season, went to Kussia. and were sold in St. Petersburg for $7 and $8 per barrel. A peisonek arraigned at the bar of the Castle (Va.) court knocked the Judge over with his fist, and then felled the Clerk with a brickbat. Theue were buried in Turkey in Eu rope, 129,471 Eussian soldiers, and, of I the 120.950 siek and wounded sent home, i 42,950 died. Total, 172,421. The sprinkling of salt on the streets and sidewalks has been prohibited in Boston, and the pavements are greatly improved in consequence. Pkobably the first instance of an Indian seeking a divorce is reported in Bangor, Me., where a red man wants to be separated from his squaw. The annual value of silk ribbons ported by Switzerland to the United States lias fallen in the last five years from over $4,000,000 to abont $1,000,000. A Kensington (N. H.) apple tree, 200 years old, fifty feet tall, and seventeen feet four inches in circumference four feet from the gronnd, has just been cut down Chief Jossph wears his hair banged in front and braided down the back. He recently received some pull-baeks from the United States troops, but he don't wear them. DrRiNG the two months, from the 21st of October to the 21st of December, 144 societies, 44 newspapers and 157 other publications in France were proscribed by virtne of the Soeialistic law. Luther's house, which remained in the possession of his descendants till the raiddle of the last century, has been bought by a person who intends turning it into a Germán public house. One hdndked and two societies, twenty-eight newspapers and eightyeight books and pamphlets have been prohibited in Germany since the promnlgation of the Socialist law. Nine-tenths of the thousand milh'on dollars which France borrowed of English bankers in order to pay Germany are now held in the shape of national bonds by Frenchmen at home. A fast as the foreigners would sell, the bonds were bought up on the Paris market, and thus, though France still owes that vast sum, she owes it in bulk only to her own people. Lowell, Mass., has over L10,500,000 invested in manufactures, 100 milis, 744,048 spindles and 18,261 looms; 11,660 females are employed and 7,G25 males, while 3,444,500 yards of cotton goods are produced per week, with 112,650 yards of woolen goods, 40,000 yards of carpeting, 6,250 shawls and 20,300 dozens of hoisery, 1,000,000 pounds of cotton and 180,500 pound of wool being consunied. Among the deaths reoorded in New York last year 15 were of persons whose ages at the time of their death were given as over 100 years. All except 3 of these were natives of Ireland. Of the remainder 2 were bom in New York and 1 in Maryland. The best authoritics in vital statistics, however, are slow to believe the stories of alleged centenarians. Eleven men and women, reported as of 100 years and over, died in Philadelphia duriug 1878, and 686 who had attained the age of 80 and over.