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— Genoa Is the most devout city of Italy. 
— California has 140,000 marriageable girls. 
— M. Thiers Is a writing a philosophical work. 
— Out of 350,000 Chicagoans, only 60,000 go t.o 
church. 
— The Mechanics’ Bank of Montreal has sus¬ 
pended. 
— Chicago Is erecting ten thousand dwellings 
this year. 
— Germany has nearly 1,000,000 more wo¬ 
men than men. 
— Potatoes are selling for $22 gold per barrel 
In Havana, Cuba. 
— The Chicago gambling houses have Issued 
regular business cards. 
— A Rifle team Is being organized in Middle- 
bury College, Connecticut. 
— A single English Arm has built 10,000 trou 
bridges for Indian railways. 
— The Suez Canal earned over $5,000,000 last 
year, and cost over $3,000,000. 
— One member of the Alabama Constitution¬ 
al Convention Is 30 years old. 
— The American Institute Fair in New York, 
Is said to be a great success. 
— One Craft Is trying to walk 800 miles in 
fourteen days at Schenectudy. 
- A Milwaukee editor has had returned to 
him a book borrowed '37 years ago. 
— Prance this year will make at a low esti¬ 
mate, 4,240,000,000,000 gallons of wine. 
— Cactus leaf is to be used In tho South In 
paper making «s a substitute for rags, 
— The total number of students at Cornell 
University Is 454, of which 80 are ladles. 
— It Is estimated that the yield of the rice 
crop this yoar, will recch 200,000 barrels. 
— The American sculptors and painters are 
going to do their best for the Centennial. 
— The leather business of the United States 
represents a working capital of $7U,000,000. 
— Chicago's Floating Uoapital Association 
gave thirty excursions during the summer. 
— The yearly Peter’s pence collection In Dub¬ 
lin ou a recent Sunday, amounted to JC3.000. 
- Over 800 tons of old rubber shoes are manu¬ 
factured Into car springs In Boston unuuttlly. 
— Breakfast in New York and supper In Ohio 
Is the posslblity offered by the new mall train. 
— The monument over the grave of John A. 
Andrew at Hingham, Mass., will be dedicated 
Oct. 7. 
— A man seventy years old Is to be hanged 
at Cleburne, Texas, ou the llrst Friday In Oc¬ 
tober. 
— The Bureau Veritas reports 68 sailing ves¬ 
sels and 0 steamships as lost during the month 
of July. 
The New York churches, about 850 In number, 
pay annually for music over half a million 
of dollars. 
— The lire Department of New York city con¬ 
sists of 07 companies, and an aggregate force of 
734 oUlcers. 
— The subscriptions to the guarantee fund of 
the Bank of California amount to seven and a 
half tuitions. 
— The greatest depth of the Pacific Ocean, 
as found by the British ship Challenge, was 
about live tulles. 
— Seventy-five thousand pounds is about to 
be spent In mounting the fortress of Glbralter 
with 83 ton guns. 
— The Scotch mall makes 388 miles, from 
Edinburgh to London, at au average speed of 
fifty miles an hour. 
— The main centennial building at Philadel¬ 
phia has 3,000 men at work on It, and will be 
finished In January. 
— A lady of Utica, N. Y., la expending $10,000 
to put a spire 250 feet high on one of the 
churches of that city. 
— Tweuty-elght thousand three hundred and 
forty-eight Illinois soldiers and sailors were 
killed lu our late war. 
— Extensive lines of railway in Mexico have 
been projected with the Intention of Improving 
International commerce. 
— An unusually large Dumber of furloughs 
will be granted In the German army this year, 
for the sake of economy. 
■ Russia expects that her grain harvest this 
year will feed her own people and afford 75,000,- 
000 bushels for exportation. 
— The Reformed Episcopal Church Is making 
rapid progress In Chicago. It has seven con¬ 
gregations and eight ministers there. 
— The indications at present In California are 
that the grape crop lu that State this year will 
be the largest that baa ever beeu kuowu. 
— A movement Is on foot in London, looking 
to the annexation of New Guinea by Great 
Britain and Its colonization by Europeans, 
— The oil spri ngs of Pennsylvania were known 
to the whites as early as 1620, but the full uses 
and value of petroleum were not known for 200 
Years afterward. 
— An English publisher has Issued the 
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