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The yield of beet sugar in Oermany this year is reckoned at 530,000 tons, against 409,000 tons last year. The Pension Oflice officials say the list this jear will araount to 170,000,000, and next year $100,000,000 will be required. The sub-treasury in New York has $00,000,000 in buil ion on hand, and no appropriation to for its transportaron to the mint. A migget of gold has been found in California, in Butt'fj County, weighing twenty-five ouncess. But it is safe to say they are not laying aroundthick. The Legislatura of Pennsylvania has passed a law to punish with fine and imprisonment any person giving or taking a bribe for a vote at a primary election or nominating convention. War has broken out between the Sioux and Crees, and a battle has been f ought near Woody Mountains, in which 28 of the former were killed. The Crees objected to the Sioux going f urther west, henee the trouble. Georgia furnishes school funds for ita juvenile population to the amount of 88 cents per capita. This provides about three months' instruction. Various bilis to increase these íunds by taxation are pending in the Legislature. It appears from the bulletin of the Census Bureau tJiat the increase in the production of cereals in the United States during the past ten years was nearly one hundred per cent, while in the ten years immediately preceding, it was only twelve per cent. Notice is giveH that on and after July 1, 1881, and until further notice, the charges for transportation of worn and mutiliated United Stiltes, notes by express, for redemption, in sums of $500 or multiplies thereof, and of new United States notes returned therefor, will be paid by the government. The Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal says: "Kentucky justice is really a farce. Our otficers acknowledge that at present it is almost impossible to punish crime of any kind. Gambling, robbery, or murder, it is all the same. Either the laws are inefficiënt, or the otficers are at fault." The recent census of Ireland shows that the population of that unhappy island has fallen to 5,159,849. The census of 1871 gave Ireland a population of 5,412,377. Thus in the last decade there has been a decrease of 252,528 inhabitants, a reduction of 4.G6 per cent. The census agent charged with the collection of statistics about the flshermen and lisVeries of America, has prepared a partial report. He estimates that 700,000 people are interested in the tisheries, and that the annual product is worth abowt $100,000,000. Lafayette Iaid the corner-stone of the old university building at Burlington, Vt., in June, 1825. Now Mr. John P. Howard.who has recently given $50,000 to the university, is arranging to erect a colossal statue of Lafyette in the park in front of the university. Secretary Blainesays in regard to his reportedifi health: "I have had no rhêumatism since February. The newspapers alone are responsible for the report that ] have sutïered trom it recently; bu I had rather have rhouniatism in the newspapers than in any other organs." The law .o prevent the adulteration of food and drugs, which was preparal by the experts who were appointed by the National Board of Trade to award prizes in the food adulteration competitiou in the San i tan Engineer, has been passed in New York and New Jersey. A new and stringent liquor law will go into effect in lihode Island on July 1. One of its provisions is that no license shall be be granted for any place within 400 feet of of a public school. It is probable that thisclause willcompel the removal of a nuniber of hotels. Another provisión of tlie law is that the objection of a majonty of the landowners within 100 feet of a place for which a license is asked shall be sufllcient to prevent the granting of a license. A most important discovery has been niade in Spain. Wliile éngaged in working the le;ul mines in the Province of Segovia, 70 miles north-west of Madrid, the minéis found an entrance into ;m immense cavern in which they found upon in argillaceous deposit and in the niidst of stalagmites 500 skeletons of men and women. Ten wellshaped and perfect skulls of a pre-historie type have been obtained, besides chipped stone and qaartz implements and frtigments of rude pottery. On the east fork of the Yuba Kiver, about üve miles above Downieville, Cal., is a snow-slide, which completely covers the river for a distance of several hundred feet. This slide formed a year ago thia winter, and wis perhaps 75 feet deep. The summer sun of last year failed to nielt it, and it is now, with some of the winter's snow, at least 40 feet in depth, the snow bing as hard as ice almost. The river has worn its way through, and the arch is as regular as though formed by liuman hands. 11 lies in agorge where thesun striks it only a few hours in the day. Judge O. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, in an interview published in the Atlanta Contitutioii, said: "Vou want a point. The sou of oíd Abe Lincoln, the present Secretary of War, will be the next President of the United State! Ile was one of the 300 ürant men at Chicago, and lie could bring that wing up. Ile's in with the administration, and would not be distasteful to that wing. Do I know hiin? I do, and he's i man with the same powerf ui magne;ism that his father had. You look out 'or liob Lincoln!" The Loiulon correspondent of the New York World reporta tliat quietncss previiils througliout the agriciiltural distrtcts of Ireland; that the farmers have harvested tlie biggest hay erop known for llfty yeart; that. tlie root rops prumlse to be unprecedentedly abundant; that tlie landlords have reolved not to execui.e writs of ejectnent exeept in cases where the tenant bsolutely denieü rhe right of the land ord to collect rent;tliat inany landlords vlio lied bere dwing the "bycotting" wriöd are returning lioine, and there re signs on every hand that tlie agitaïon luis nearly burntitself out. Friends f Ireland will hope all this is true. The consumptien of coal on ocean steamers has heen redueed from six tons to a ton of freight to one-fifth of a ton since the days of the old side-wheel Cunarders. Some people teil about life, some study life and some live.