Out Of The Vest Pocket

There are 154,083 Presbyteriana in the state of New York. England makes $20,000,000 a year profit out of its postoffice. The Victoria cross carries with it a pension of $250 a year for life. The total number of United States vessels encircling Cuba is seventyseven. Fifteen years ago Reading, Pa., did not have a singie hosiery mili. Now it has sixteen, employing 2,500 hands. The buil ring of Madrid stands a mile or so outside the city. It was built in 1874 at a cost, it is said, of f80,000. British trade with the Philippines last year was $9,934,590; that of the United States, $5,145,303. or about half as much. The unprecedented price of 300 guineas was paid a few days ago in London for a set of Wheatley's famous "Cries of London." The Pliiladelphia Zoological gardens contained on January 1, 1,019 living anlmals- 339 mammals, 421 bivds, 238 reptiles and 21 batrachians. It is expected that the work on the civil war one man in every t.hirteen died of disease, or proportionately flve times as many as were killed in action. The four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Trinidad by Columbus, which will occur July 81, will be commemorated by the issue of a special postage stamp. With all her agricultural wealth., South Dakota is also third in the li of gold-producing statee. The aggregate of gold produced in the state last year was $5,829,575. It is expected that the work on the last section of the subway in Boston will be SDished in a few days, and that cars will be running through the entire structure by September 1. One of the latest things in surgery is the practice of embalming an injured limb as a substitute for ampU' tation. It is claimed by a celebrated surgeon that much more tissue is thereby saved. A startling revolution in etiquette s about to come upon fashionable London. Men who desire to be absolutely up-to-date will, it is rumored, have to have their names on their wives' eallIng cards. A report recently made to the borough board of Manhattan estimates that 950 new teachers will be required annually for Greater New York - a number far in excess of the annual supply Of local normal school graduates. The Japanese government has under consideration a plan for the establishment of banks with foreign capital. The plan, as outlined, is designed to encourage foreigners to become interested in the support of industrial enterprisea in Japan. .