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Over 12,000,000 bushel9 of grain in Chicago elevators wben sails are being Uken in for winter quarters Í8 not just the thing. The area of the Dominion of Canada is estimated at 3,389,442 square miles, being almost equal to the extent of tne United States. In 1880, California produced from her vineyards 10,000,000 gallons ef wine, 500,000 gallons of brandy, $100,000 worth of raisin and $150,000 worth of grapes for table use. One of the curiosities of this age of wonderful things is that a newspaper a priuted daily in the trama runMing between New York and San Francisco. It is a snaall sheet, but is íull of telegraphic news, which it receiyes at the various stations during the night. The czar has ordered that seventeen of the imperial palaces and castles, ïncluding thoseof Livadia, intho Crimea, and the Belvedere near Warsaw, shall be converted into educational institutions for the benefit of the poor. By the schooner Golden Fleece, just returned from the northern regions, news is brought of the complete circumnavigation of Wrangel Land by the United States relief steamer Hogers, without finding any trace of the Jeannette. Several years ago a colorea man named Lewis, at New York, died, leavinff $1,500,000 to the government to paythe national debt. His keirs contested the will, and have fought m every court for it, but it is now decided that the executors of the estáte must account to the go eminent f or every dollar of the legacy. Twin babies bom to Mrs. and William H. Chapin, of Gilbert's Mills' Oswego County, during the campaign of last year, were named Garfleld and Arthur ïhey are now sturdy, handsome little fellows of .precisely the same size and weight, and they resemble each other soperfectly that their mother has to keep a string tied around little Uarfleld's waist in order totell themapart. A projected hotel in Toledo will have nn har.Toom. but in its stead, a small chapel, in whicli the guests may hold religious services. The man who is going to build this house believes that hotels are wickeder than the average of travelers, and he means to provide accommodations especially f or Chnstians. He is said to be wealtby enough to try the experiment without danger ot bankruptcy. One result of the copious ratos falling upon soil unusually warm for the time of year, is seen in an unprecedented yield of mushrooms. Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia papers represent them as being far more plentiful in the markets of those cities than ever bef ore, while the countrymen for miles around report that the meadows and pastures are almost white with them. The most arrant knaye in this country is Johnny Hopper, of Washington. He put love powders on some apples, and fed them to Mrs. Ogle, the wife of Moses Ogle, of the same city, and in this manner won her affections trom her true lord. Mrs. Ogle confessed it, and said after eating those apples she couldn't help loving Johnny better than Moses. This is the second time woman has got into trouble with apples. 3?rom statistics recently published in France it appears that there are 3,108 centenarians in Europa Switzer land claims to have the oldest inhabitant, in the person of an aged farmer living in the Cantón Grisons, who has seen 109 Summers. Female centenarians are in the ascendancy, I there being 1864, while that of the males ia 1244. A majority of the old people have spent their lives in remóte I country districts, where they have devoted their time to out-door labor. A lady writer at Washington has I been studying the President, and says this is a "speak-when-you-are-spokento" administration, for, she says, "you do not go up to speak to the President, but wnen he is ready to speak to you he approaches you and converses as long as he feels disposed, then bows and walks off, but takes leave in so polite a manner that you don t teel as if you were dropped, but are aware that the turn of others to occupy his time has come." When Capt Paul Boyton, af ter drifting for forty-seven days down the muddy Missouri, teached Omaha last Sunday, he was greeted at the river bank by a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 persons. To the fortúnate indiI viduals who succeeded in getting hold of his coat lappel he recounted some of his strange adventures. He reports that it is no joke to run against sunken snags or to stick fast in blue mud, but that such mishaps are as nothing in comparison with being taken for the missing link and shot at by excited marksmen. Europe is said to use up annually 80,915 tons weight of wood in matches alone. Germany burns more matches than any other country, a Germán economist says, because of the prevalent habit of smoking. In that couutry itis estimated that every day 15 matches per head of the population are in Belgium about 9; in England 8, and in Trance 6. The consumption decreases steadily from north to south. On the average the population of Europe may be said to burn 6 or 7 matches per head every day. All at onco an extraordinary desire to be sociable with each other has broken outamong European monarchs. Within a few weeks the new Czar of Russia has paid a visit to the oíd Kaiser of Germany; King Alphonso, of Spain, has traveled to see Dom Luis, of Portugal; King Humbert, of Italy, with his royal spouse, bas been at Vienna to cali en the Emperor Josepu oí Austria; and Emperor Joseph in his turn, has arranged to go and fraternizo with Czar Alexander. Queen Victoria, who wants to stay at her home, and the Sultan, who wants to stay at hi harem, in lieu of making journeys to King Alphonso, have sent him, the former her Garter, and the latter his Osmanli.