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Tom Moore's birthplace is now a candy shop. The Jews of the world are estimated at 0,500,000. Samuel J. Tilden and Senator Thurman are of the same age - 65. M'ire men fail to get rich thau fail after they have become rich. The California Constitutional Convention has rejected all the propositions to extend the elective franchise to women. Thebe has been a failure of the winter rains in the North of India, and the people are apprehensive of anotüer famine. The ordinary life of a locomotivo engine is stated at thirty years. Some of the small parts require renewal every six months. We saw a young man with two heads on his shoulders the other day, but didn't consider it much of a curiosity one belonged to his girl. A popular bilí to allow the same reward for killing stage-robbers as for rapturing and convicting them has just been defeated in the Nevada Legialature. A Nevada woman scolded her aese servant ior mu prupeü.y i io-n.uiugB [ish, and, on going into the kitchen soon ifter, found him energetically washing it with brown soap. Diphtheria, according to the experiinents of Prof. Klebs, of Prague, can be very successfully treated with benzoato of soda. No inconvenience is f elt f rom doses of five grammes. Pages in the United States Senate go about among the Senators with albums, to wliich they solicit signatures for people in the galleries, who give a slight compensation to the pages for the favor. The St. Louis Comnion Council is petitioned to stop the ringing of church bells, some of which are so ponderous and gloomy and in such oontinuous aotion that " real estáte in their vieinity is depressed." Joim E. Skinnek, a compositor on the Journal and Courier, at Jsew Haven, Ct., has fallen heir to $750,000, left him by Antonie Mercer, of the Island of St. Thomas, whom in youth he befriended, at Port Jefferson, Long island, N. Y. A gentleman who uves in Indiana, but who has been sojourning in Mississippi for two or three months, states, in a reeent letter, that yellow fever is still lurkint; around Vicksburg, and several cases have been reported, notwithstanuing the cold weather. A mak who died in TJtica, N. Y., the other day, liad spoken bnt twice in nearly forty years. On one occasion, when he hit his finger with a hanimer, he ejaculated "Oh!" and on another, ■when he saw a snvke creeping over the body of a sleeping child, he cried otit, "See! " And, strange as it may appear, this singular man was not a barber. The American House of Representatives is renewed once in two years ; the French Chamber once in four years ; the Germán Reichstag, the Prussian Diet and the Hungarian Diet once in three years; the Italian Chamber once in five years ; while in Great Britain the nominal period of the elective House is seven years. Aïï article in the New York Tribune places the population of the United States at 47,568,000. and of the Territories at 662,000- a total of 48,035,000. The population of the Eastern and Middle States is set down at 14,303,000 ; of the Western and Pacific States at 1(5,270,000, and of the former slave States at 16,800.000. Thkke is one woman in Maine who has lived a good deal in a year. This is her story: " She lives in Fairfield, is 40 years of age, and is the motfter ol seventeen children. Inside of a year she gave birth to two at different times, married off two, and lost three by death. One of the two married sons lost his ■wife and was remarried within the same year." SONG. The firelight listens on the iioor To hear the wild winds blow. Within the burstinjí roses burn. Without there alides the snow. Across the flower I aee the tíake Pass rairrored. mvHtic. elow. Oh, blooms and storms must blush and freeze, While 8ea8onH come and go ! I lift the sash- and live, the gale Comes leaping to my cali. The rose is but a painted one That hanga upon the wall. -Eltzabeth smart Pheltm, n Harper' ilagazlne. THE xiUSSian pnysieiaus repuri iuc ' following as tlie characteristics of the prevailing plague: A swelling of the size of a hen's egg appears nnder the groin. This is accompanied by a general indisposition and violent headaches. From these signs of the disoase to its complete development only a few hours elapse. Immediately nfterward ensue severe internal pains, copious vomit; ings, and soon aft er black spots break out on the body. mostly on the breast, the forearm and the top of the back. Ia an hoiir or two more the patiënt is ! dead. ■