Bits Of Knowledge

Strictly gpeaking, the only piecious stonrs are the diamond, the ruby, the etnerald and the sappfclre. The ('hen-o i'inii',1 , gourd, whieh grows in India, increases its length three times daily for thirty-four days. Adieu signifios, "To God you I coramend;" good-by rneans "God be with yoi:" farewell, "May you fare or travel in safety." Thp skins of upwfcd of 100,000 animals are used yei'.i to cover Oxford bibles, and 400,000 sheets of gold are required to lettéï the backs of the volumes; the quautity used in gilding the odges, belng mucta Inrger. Ilorses always poittt one car forward (rhen they sleep. Exaetly why this is done no human being can teil, but the probability i that the practice is a relie of the time when they were wild and obliged to be on their guard even when asleep. Cattle, on the other hand, are apparently indifferent as to the position of their pars while sleeping, but no odds what position they are in, both are always pointed alike. There were. debarred at the port of New York for the year, and sent back, 2,522 Immigrants, of whom 1,368, or half those rejected, were from Italy. Likelihood of becoming paupers and the alien contract labor law are the two ohief causes of exclusión. Finally, out of the 66,445 Itallans, which, by 'the way, included 14,236 who had been here before, there were 30,728 who could neither read nor write, while out of 24,230 Germans there were only 410.