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Wedding outfits can be hired in New York for so much an hour. The Argentino Kepublic has 1,500,000 tons of wheat ready for export to the maikets of the world. A Kingston, N. Y., woinan at the play shouted for the polici when the villain attacked the heroïne. Celluloid that is perfectly fire proof is now manufaetured in England by a new process from the spent fibres from paper milis. There is a Baptist doctor of divinity down in Virginia wbo boasts of immersing 164 converts insixty minutes. His name is Binger. Peter's pence in France used to be 3,000,000 francs a year. In 1S93 the sum contributed was 1,800,000, and last year it was less than 1,000,000. Surrender post-office has been wiped off the map, and the place where General Lee handed his sword over to General Grant is Appomattox once more. From recent developments it is clairaed that Leadville's gold belt has been as yet barely touched upon. It is said to have an extent of three miles by ten. Superintendent McMillan of the park department of Buffalo objected to the name Scajaquada for one of the new boulevards of the city, but the commissioners overruled him. Scores of Quaker families in Southern Pennsylvania have preserved the marriage certificates of their ancestors for many generations, signed, as is the Quaker custom, by all the guests at the ceremony. Reports of the favorable results of the anti-toxine treatment continue to come in; in Trieste the death rate in cases of diphtheria has fallen from flfty to eighteen per cent; in Bukowina from sixty-three to sixteen per cent. It seems likely that one of the most important benefits to civilization of Stanley's African expedition will be the introduction of African mahogany to Western commerce. There is even now a flourishing trade in this wood, which is sold more cheaply in the United States than it formerly was in Liverpool. Central America, Brazil and the West Indies have hitherto contributed the world's chief supply of mahogany.