Items Of Interest

Wlifn a yon ! nn rM ■ ie :i haisor. Within the la e Metholiurch etiilico=, at a eostuí over I venr theSoutl .000,000 poní la üio productiotí of any other year by 12,000,0' I The nri of tlic cobra is so active Unit one-fiíth of a grain inje :ted b ninn1 veins woüld be suiíieient to cause his death. e o f thé excainiates that it will requii and one milliui] dollars to complete the work. The most bei vörld is in ghing twenty-eight carats. [] pown jeM els ia I i as a jii;1 ■ , valïhe line built in tliis Washington in the s :. It was flrst opened to the public for business April 1, 1815. There are at present in thïs country B.058 National, 923 State, 630 savings, and 2,578 private banks. Of these, 263 have been urganized in the last twelve months. An ant, three-eights of an inch long, carrying b burden of one-sixth of a res at the rato of one mile in ■ i hours. The weight (a smal] one compared to tha1 they eau oarry) is bhirówBi Lesa than flfty years ago one man nou Id not make more than 14 pins a minute; now he can make more than 1400. Then one girl could stick on papers about lO.OOOpinsa day; now a f air day'a work is from 800,000 to 1,000,000. Serpents, scorpions, and large pinching-ants, are regarded in Sgypt as transíormed villains. It is believed that these reptiles and vile insecto are wickedly diaposed, and i'oul a pleasure in committing mischief. The number of bibles and testamenta arbythe British and Fot eign Bible society is nearly S "■i; ty, i. 100,000. - ■ Within seventy-flve yúrs 150,000,000 copies have been ]iit into circi Sir HenryBessemerhaa I it no than llépatents. The freedom of tJio city of London has just been conferred npon him. i. : prowas introduced into d the entire make oí ■ 51,000 tons a ear; now it is 830, California as cal) ,! of irold, Tt is bow oalled I i n.- Last yearii proi worth e former ai 0,000 wor latter. A bone and source of real wealth to a mi ti n after - Tie American board has sixteen churches in Japan. Four new churches vv-ore organized and one hundred and twentv-one new members were a last year. Tweh ■ of the mixteen. churches are self-súpporting. The eontríbulions amount to an . as concithe United Sti Iridge Company, isoneofthe import udustries oí Lowell, Tke company employ, in aíl departments, about lí a capacity for türning out tO i ieces notitli, wiiicii flnd a market all over the country. ïheir monthlyproduet of smal] (size 22) cartridges, for shooting galler 0,000. ThrceOÍ all tlie large cal ' United States array i irks. Besides thfs, tí te tvoops, and for the purpose of enccraraging tar iractice n the militia the (S)mpany are oflering team and individual prizea to such OrganizatíonS; Sonic idea (áaya the Berlitt oorrespon' Mie London Vmes) mar bo ducalional status of the' ■ :n ai-iny and navy from statïstics ii, of ■ tha ar 1879-80j 132,660 were ex■'. ui tin' (iiji-iiüi J.._i ■■■--.::! ■;■!.. only HQCvTiii" :-■:' i of any ining. Those who could . writti n : 1.57 1.73 in 1877-78, '.'. and 2.37 in 1875-76, the i ■rvision of sia, Posen, Uva .., the PaThe -1; as the Centra! ('■■ ie objeot of vvi iBBpJ. systeni of sinii) that in operatiöja in England, propose the following pi :■ the lent of I ' that is, 6 percentper annura, or IJ per cent aarter, 5 p of the reniaincofit would i"; placed to of a reserve fund t sed of as the mem I Twoanda half ]ior cent of the remaining ; would ;!'.! r it of au (■■ i fund, wliile the remaining pit)fii id cqiuüly among the i'uil amouut i paid during the quarter, the ful] amount of :i.; quart r, and one-quarter of the amo invested u tbo beginning of the quarter. The diriales toade to unknowa ms and one-half of the dividends on sales to ñon-members, bowever, would Io placed to the creeïitof tbi serve fund. This systena, the conimittee adds, bas peceived tlie pproral of flaany of the leading authorities on cooperaüon. Many of the leadin d proprietors in N and Southern Germany are cultivators of the common black ant, whioh Lasect they I in !i: Erutt-grower's friend. They i ! ant huls ' in their tu r the poliee service of their fruit trees cntirely to tl rlonists, which pass uil their time in elimbi qs of ■ their bc and le&ves of re as wel] : ■ g lar i to the groun Thcy di umi fruit, but only insuch apples, pe ily been penetrated by the er, which they i pnrsue to ;ts fastnesses within tlie vcry heart oï the fruit. Nowhere are apple and peur trees bo free trom :-)li;j;ht aud destruetive insi diate ant hill 5 or 6 years old. ïhe favonte food of anta would áppear to ba I papa of those creatnres which spend the whole of their briel i is in devouring the tender slioots and juvcrile Oavud oí iruit trees.