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— Niagara Falls Is troubled with incendiaries. 
— In California 3,000 Chinamen are native 
born Americans. 
— The Philadelphia Navy Yard is to be sold 
at auction, Dec. 2. 
— England hes 700,000 Sunday school scholars, 
in about (1,000 schools. 
— There are 1,793 fewer saloons in Michigan 
than there were a year ago. 
— Wlnterset, Iowa, has produced an apple 
weighing 2 pounds 2 ounces. 
— Franco has 123,000 industrial establishments 
giving work to about 1,900,000. 
— Willard's Hotel at Washington, had 75 
bridal parties in one day, recently. 
— Turkey pays annually In the neighborhood 
of $60,000,000 as Interest on its debt. 
— A meeting-house was sold at auction at 
Plymouth, Ind„ recently, for f 10.50. 
— According to the recent census the popu¬ 
lation of Massachusetts is 1,651,652. 
— Steamboat passengers lost t his year on our 
rivers, lakes and sea coast number 301. 
— It is calculated that, twenty tons of roasted 
coffee are sold in New York, each week. 
— Hops grow wild In great abundance in 
Arizona—a fair article for brewing purposes. 
— A Sydney telegram says that a large, navi¬ 
gable river lias teen discovered in Now Guinea. 
— During the past seven years the United 
States has paid to Spain for tax on sugar about 
$125,000,000. 
— A petition to Messrs. Moody and Sankey, 
asking them to visit Chicago, Is in circulation 
in that city. 
— Engineers are engaged In making surveys 
for a new aqueduct through Westchester Co., 
to New York. 
— There were 12,318,500 one-cent pieces coined 
at the Philadelphia mint during the year enrtlug 
June 30, 1875. 
— The number of dead letters during year 
ending July 1, was 4,600,000. Money found in 
them, $61,000. 
— The New York and Canada Railroad, be¬ 
tween Albany and Montreal was opened on the 
16lh of November. 
— The Egyptian Government has applied to 
England for two experts to examine into and 
arrange its finances. 
— The fuuds of the Antiquarian Society In 
Worcester, Mass., now amount to $80,000, with 
a flourishing library. 
- Of the 1,146 voters over 70 years of age who 
registered for the last election, lu Brooklyn, 7 
claimed to be over 90. 
— A new hotel annunciator has been invented 
which will register on the dial what guests 
want w r ho ring the bell, 
— The revenue of Frauce Bluce the com¬ 
mencement of tfle present year is $22,000,000 in 
excess of the estimates. 
— A Swedish school-house, for exhibition at 
the Centennial, has been shipped from that 
country to Philadelphia. 
— In one or the Roman Catholic churches of 
Brooklyn, recently, 9,000pennies were deposited 
in the alms-box in one day. 
— The temperance people of Maine are circu¬ 
lating a petition asking that the Prohibitory 
law be made more stringent. 
— On a train of the Maine Central Railroad a 
few days since, a ticket was taken up that had 
been itsued fifteen years ago. 
— The military peusion roll of Germany now 
c ntalns the names of 48,727 invalid soldiers 
and officers, and 24,900 widows. 
— At a Prohibition meeting in Pennsylvania 
a very “tight” man was hired to sit on the 
platform as an awful example. 
— Philadelphia's “cruck " (Centennial) hotel 
is to be the Grand Union, w ith 850 rooms and 
accommodations for 2,000 people. 
— The Centennial Exhibition will be opened 
on May 10, 1878, and will remain open every day, 
except, Sunday, until November 10. 
— The Goodyear Manufacturing Company 
at Naugatuck, Ct„ employs 500 hands and turns 
out. daily 1,500 pairs of rubber boots. 
— The German Federal Council has voted 
the Increased army estimates, and also 100,000 
marks for the Strassburg University. 
— Arrangements are in progress for coloniz¬ 
ing two or three huudred English laborers and 
their families lu Southern California. 
— The postponed dedication of the Poe 
monumeut at Baltimore has been appointed 
for Wednesday, the 17th of November. 
— France produces only one-half of the wood 
she uses for fuel, despite the considerable for¬ 
ests that everywhere cover the country. 
— The old.bell which called together the 
Virginia Convention of 1775, in Richmond, is 
still in use in Martinsville, In that Htate. 
— The second annual Congress of the Protes¬ 
tant Episcopal Church In the United States as¬ 
sembled at Philadelphia, on the 9th inst. 
— 'The English naval force in Chinese waters 
amounts to twenty-one ships, with 112 guns 
and about two thousand officers and men. 
— The steamer Vilie de Paris of the General 
Transatlantic Line, struck a pier at Havre, on 
the loth Inst, and sustained serious damage. 
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