Items Of Interest

A law just enacted by the legislature of New Zealand exeludes the Chinese írom that country. In the palace of Emperor William, in Berlin, 500 housemaids and 1,800 liveried footmen find employment. A Boston barber advertises "a separate room upstairs for dying," ignorantly omitting the letter "e" from the last word. When a dentist in China is pulling a tooth for a patrón, an assistant pounds on a gong, to drown the cries of the victim. Trees which grow on the northern side of a hill make more durable luniber than those which grow on the southern sid,e. A cañe worth $3,000, a gift from so;ne friends, is carried by Dr. H. H. Hale, of Detroit. It is ornamented with gold and jewels, and in the head is a fine watch. Some of the best families in England have substituted boys for housemaids, whom they have found incompetent and insolent. The substitutes are chiefly from India. Smelts are so plentiful in Bellingham bay, Washington, that they ome to the margin of the water in schools, and are drawn ashore with garden rakes and scoop nets. A flea entered the ear of Adolphus Doncourt, of Flushing, N. Y., and for an hour Adolphus danced without music. Then a physician was succeesful in removing the little intruder. A ton of the water of the Dead Sea, when evaporated, yields 187 pounds of salt; a ton of the water of the Atlantic ocean, 81 pounds; a ton of the water of the Pacific, 81 pounds. The longest distance to which a projectile has been thrown was at Shoeburyness, England, on April 15, 1SS8, when a Longridge wire bound gun threw a shot 21,358 yards, or 12 miles 238 yards. A colored couple in Americus, Ga., met Justice Graham on the street and requested him to marry them. He promptly gratified them, standing on the hlghway, and then resumed his walk. Perfectly healthy men are scarce. In one month, at an army recruiting station in Chicago, 455 men applied for enlistment, and only 27 of them were accepted, all of the others being unsound. The Cuban insurgents, not being able to buy the cannon in general use, make them from a tree which has a winding grain, bore them with hof iron and strengthen them with bandages of ox hide. The cold noee of a spaniel, prossed against the face of a sleeping man in Rockland, Me., awoke him. He arose, followed his dog to the kitchen, and found it flooded with water from a leaking tank.