The Israel Putnam Monument At Brooklyn

Conn., is to lie dedlcated June 14. A Connecticut man who lias trailed hordes 2,120 times now bas an animal wortb $50 for bis cutencsi. An Albany girl has bad the skin of her deceased pus dog tuiDed and uses It as a rui to stand on wheu she Is out on tbe icc. Fifty thousand glasses of beor me sald tl bave becL drank darton tbe recent municipal festlvltles at the Paris Hotel de Ville. Thcre are In tbc üunday schools of the Chrlstian world 10,447,9J0 scbolars and 1,552,107 teachers, inaklug a grand total of 18,400,000. An eminent firm of soap-makers otfered to snpply the BiHIsh census gratis lf Iheyshould be allowed to print tbeir advertlsenieuts on the back. Not accepted. Durlng tlie past ten years no less than slz species of Nonb Aiiicr.cau birds bave become extlnct, and It is claimed that the Engllib sparrow bas been the maiu cause of tbelr dlsappearance. The larjrest block of granlte ever quarrled in thls country was quarried lately at Aulmrn, He. It is seventy feet lonï, thirty-flve feet wlde, and twenty ieet thlck", nnd weip;hj bout 4,900 toni.