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States and Canada. In the State of New 

 York alone there are 187 daily newspapers; 

 1,151 weeklies and a total of 1,949 for all 

 kinds of publications. In Pennsylvania 

 there are 197 dailies and 972 weeklies, 

 with l,446astotal number of publications. 

 The following table of publications shows 

 that the Western States and Territories 

 are not unprovided with reading matter: 



Total, 

 Place. Daily. "Weekly. all 



kinds 



Illinois 156 1,210 1,660 



Texas 67 636 751 



Kansas 49 619 715 



Nebraska 29 570 649 



California 102 458 647 



Colorado 35 226 290 



S.Dakota.... 21 231 272 



Washington 17 194 230 



Oregon 18 149 198 



N.Dakota 9 124 139 



Oklahoma 8 112 129 



Montana.. 12 79 100 



Utah... 10 44 68 



Idaho 4 57 66 



N. Mexico 5 47 57 



Wyoming 5 36 42 



Arizona 9 29 38 



Nevada 9 15 26 



565 4,836 6,077 



The appointment of W. T. Hornaday as 

 superintendent of the proposed Zoological 

 Garden in New York lends interest to the 

 article in the July Scribner's, by J. 

 Carter Beard, the animal painter, on taxi- 

 dermy, which he calls " A New Art. " He 

 describes Mr. Hornaday' s work as showing 

 the best existing specimens of the art. 



Rudyard Kipling, as he showed himself 

 to his intimate friends just before he be- 

 came known to all the world, will be the 

 subject of a paper in McClure's Maga- 

 zine- for July. It is written by the man 

 with whom Mr. Kipling was associated in 

 the editorship of a newspaper in India, 

 and it will be illustrated with portraits and 

 other pictures from photographs furnished 

 by Mr. Kipling's family. 



Professor Peabody, of Harvard, who is 

 a member of a committee, consisting of 

 President Eliot, President Walker, Presi- 

 dent Low, Charles Dudley Warner, and 

 others, for the investigation of the drink 

 habit in Boston, and of the different sub- 

 stitutes for saloons that have been estab- 

 lished there, sets forth in the July num- 

 ber of " The Forum " some of the results 

 of this important investigation. 



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A wild-eyed man, with his mouth out of 

 joint, was found leaning against a 'lamp 

 post on Fulton street. 



"What's the matter with him?" yelled 

 the crowd, as it ran up. 



" Give him air," replied the policeman; 

 "he's a stranger, and he tried to say 

 Tchoupitoulas street.'' Neiv Orleans 

 Times-Democrat. 



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