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Ex-Senator Dorsey has 28,000 Lea of cattle on nis ranche in New Mexico. The Inter-Ocean says he ought to brand every one of them on the hip with a "star' to indícate the "route" they came. The San Francisco Bulletin claims that all articles of food, with the exception of butter, eggs, cheese.poulir; - and sugar are cheaper in that city than in any large city east of the Rocky Mountains. A member of parliament thinks a good way to fight thggrowing taste for noxious fiction among the poor classes would be to establish children's libraries. The English life of President Garfield "Frona Log Gabin to White House," has reached a third edition, which includes a chapter on his tragic death. An eddition of this work in Dutch will appear shortly in Amsterdam. There is more or lesa forcé in the suggestion of the Illinois State Journal ;hat "Chicago would have been more iberal to the Michigan sufferers if Michigan had been a field where St. Louis could compete for her trade." In accordance with the laws of thia state, every case of diphtheria should at once be reportecl to the health offler or to the local board of health.diphtheria being plainly a disease "dangerous to the public health." Mr. Arthur is the sixth President who goes wifeless into the Executive Mansion. Ilis predecessors in thia respect were Jefferson, Jackson, Van 3uren, Tyler, and Buchanan- all but he bachelor Buchanan haviag been widowers. The price of ' tickets to the public Jinner given to Mr.Gladstone inLeeds, 011 October 7, ranged from $5 to $25, 'according to situation." The usual rice of a ticket to a public dinner in England is $5; sometimes it is $7.50; very rarely $10. The superintendent of the experimental tea farm at Summerville, 8. C, ent 3,000 tea-plants to the Atlantic Exposition, on Octcber 21. The average height of these specimens, which were selected as a fair sample of the :rop, is about nineteen inches and they ook healthy and liardy. Among the emigrants landed at hastie Garden one day recently was ;he family of a Germán farmer, four ïieuiliers oü wllich, tVVO boys and tWO girls are d warf s. Their ages range from even to fifteen years, but neither of hem is larger than ui ordinary three'ear-old chiid. Guiteau's counsel armounces that he hasabandoned the jurisdiction and malpractice points and will conduct the defence on the insanity point alone. No surgeon could be found who was willing to testify on the question of malpractice. This Í3 the most creditable exhibition the medical profession has made in this melaiicholy case. The gold medals awarded to Brush, Edison, and Maxim, at the Electrical Exhibition in Paris, are a substantial cknowledgment that our country keeps )ace with the most progressive natiöns n that branch of practical science. Our nventors have this time competed with ae greatest achieveinents of European kill, and have more than held their wn. The Woman's Journal says: "The ;ossips have made a little romance for ïlanche Howard, who wrote a clever rifle called "One Summer." It is said he earned with it the money for a wedding trip to Europe, but her lover was so mad at her for putting their ttle story before the public that he ilted her. She had the European trip, evertheless, and hae just got home. Seventeen suits have been begun bv Virginians for $100,000 worth of land i Ohio, the claims being based on jrants made to ancestors of the plainffs 100 years ago for services in the ievolutionary war. The lands are in ''ayette and Madison Counties, and here are some 15 defendants.who have ccupied the property from 30 to 50 rears, and believed they had a clear tie to it. Mr. Muihall, a leading English staistician, estimates that the United tates is accumulating wealth at the ate of at least $2,500,000 a day, or, in ound numbors, at $1,000,000,000 a ear, and that all the indications loint to a conünuance of this condi,ion. We are now enjoying a general usiness prosperity unparalleled in hisory, while the material wealth of the ountry has been added to to an extent lmost beyond calculation. It appear3 that the Marquis of Lorne joes home by the express command of lis royal mother-in-law, and it is said ,hat she has a fat take for him at ïome. He has given her complete satsfaction by the performance of his uties in Canada, and as the health of ie Princesa Louise is very poor over lere, her Majesty proposes to advance dm to higher official honors in a latiude more agreeable to his wife. According to the figures of the ensus the vast estates which existed t the South before the war are being jroken up at a rate that in the course f ten years will give the South almost s large a number of landed proprietors s any other portion of the country. In xeorgia, for instance, there were at the )eginning of the war only 62,000 landel proprietors. To-day there are more ian twice that number. The same is rue of Alabama, Florida and Virginia. Ad vices from África state that Stanley s engaged in preparing the country which he penetrates for commercial traffic. The adventurous explorer has discovered that the great Congo river is navigable fox thousands of miles above the rapids, which prevenís nagigation for eighty milea. Stanley, with true Yankee enterprise, is building a road around these rapids, intending to place steamers on Uia ïiver above them and open an unknown country to the world's markets. There are thirty-one $5,000 stibscripioris to the Mrs. Garfield fund, three of ;2,500, six of $2,000 and eighty-seven f $1,000 each. The smallest subscripion is flve cents, froni a poor colored )erson, and the largest single contri)ution $10,000, from i Philadelphian. There are in all about 1,200 subscripions. It is noticed by the Utica Obner .hat at some time or other the man who does not advertise is brought into )rominence, and a red flag is always used.