Twenty-four Per Cent. Of Norway Is Forest

Iu Itah yearliog sleers are wortli $14 a hcud. Ripc ehcrnes are in the markets of soutliern California. A Jewelerg' excbange wiU bc opened in New York July 1. Buddhlsm is bpconilng fashlonable &■ a religión iu Boston. Pennsylvania legislatura are paid a salary instead of a per diein. Tlircc thousand toD8 of Ice was multed by a recent flre in Baltimore, Md. Portlaud, Oiveon, carpenters are strikiugfor Liue hours work instead of ten. The next republlean state conventlon of Ohio Is to be held at Toledo, July 27. Sixty -fivc ton of Bteel rails are turncd out daily at the roller-milla in Coluinbia, Pa. The Mexleans are using eleetrlcity to light Up the ainphltlieaters for their bull-fights. It is thought that York state wlll derive $200,000 this yer froui the celebrated iuheritance tax. There are cight thousand Piute Indlani instead of loor tliousanil, as has beun paragrapbed by DQmeroiU exohangest aceordiu to the chlef of that Interetting trilie. The Haitford Jieligtum BeraH gays an old Lltchfleld deaCon used to havo this iel phrase: "VViien, o Lord,tbe clonda of tbe v.i.lry .süail fall on thls dilapidated forni." To be a thorouchly Eugllsb Lmcrlcan gentleman oui; must uot content liim-elf with one suinnjcr cottage. Ili1 iimstown tbree ot four, oue in the mountainB, another at the eeashore, and another ut bis farm, He (in move accorJiug to hls fancy, bowever, and canoccupv tbe house which he coiiBiders most eeasonable. A well known retail tnnrebant was In bad humor onc Monday mornlng. A flii'iii sald tohlm: "Charley, I am afruhl the preacli ng ycstcrday dld not do you much gj I." "It lid not," was tbe ausner. 'My preacbed against the follies of fashioimUle dres, and most of the ladies oí bis cüiigrigatlon are my cuitomers-'J "James," said the mllkman to bis new boy, "d'ye see wbat I'm a-doln off" -'Yt sir," replied James, "you're a-pourln' water iu tba