Topics Of Interest

In Oude and the northwcst provinces of India, 101,080 persons died of lever last October. Dui-inir tlie last twenty years 100,000 wonien died f rom cáncer in England. Dr. Arthur Haviland claims that high, dry, wcll-drained coun tries havo little mortality from this causo. If yon want to soe an egg waltz, half 'iill a smajl quill with mcrcnry, and thi-ust it into i hot, iïcshly hardboiled uno. The botter the esg the more rapid will be its juiups and rolls. Pull many a rose is boni to blusa unseen, aml waste its fragrunce on the desertair; full many a nip is taken behind the screen, and oloves and cofí'ce, too, are eaton thcre. The Ilawaiian Legislature has ! propriated $50,000 to build a palace l'or the King, wlioso palace has hilhcrto consisied of a ïnunber of woodeu cottages encloscd by a high stone wall. ' rubber trees, which are tapped ovevy other day, continue to yield sap fbr inoro than twenty years; and it is a singular oiruumstance that tlie oldest and most frequently tapped trees produce the richest sap. The Burlington Ilawkaye says that a man uevor ieels more foroibïy how truc it is that "kind words liever dio," tkan whcn iiis lovo letters are ruad out to the absorbing interest of all present, in a breaeh of proinisc suit. Eipcricnce has shown at tlio Petrolouin lron Works, at Titnsville, l'cnn., that a barrel of petroleum will generale beat sufficient tor makinga ion of 'iroii, wlule a ton and a quarter of coal would bc required for tlie same rcsult. The total assesscd valuation of Texas is $300,525,407, on whieh the State ad valoivm tax of llfty cents on tlio $100 i.s $,602,668 67. Also assessed : 257,703 polls at $'2 each. tuakiag polltax of $520,588. Total State revemics (occupaúoiis oxcepted), $2,023,250 67. i Kearly every pavvnbrokor in Chicago luis loaned from $30 to 50 on a watch chajn made of a reniarkably close iiuitatiou of gold. Tho operators wcre two youug ineu, who siiiq)ly offered tho i;h:iiii as security, without saying that it was gold. j i A widow, who livos in a secluded part of Michigan, lalks very imperfect) y by reason of having lost her palatc. ;uul lier two daugliters, agod 8 and 12, eau only spcak the Btrauge language they have ieariiod oí' her, though thoir voual organs are perfect. McKeeben was oompelled, wbilc a loaded pisto] was Ioyolcd at hiin, to marry Miss Moore, at Leavcnworlh. lía usas. lie con testcel the lcgality of the niarriage, and tlio courts dcclared it uult and vold. Thcn he volu'itarily j 1 had the coiOinotty re;ieaLci; - I