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AGENTS 
CHRISTMAS IS COMING! 
— The State of Michigan has 3,814 miles of 
railroad. 
— The American Institute Fair closed on the 
20th inst. 
— About a foot of snow fell at Buflalo, N. Y., 
on the 14th inst. 
— Typhoid fever is at present very prevalent 
in Paris, France. 
-One-fifth of the population of New York 
City are Germans. 
— The length of deep aea cable laid in the 
world is 70,000 miles. 
— The annual arrests in New York number 
about sixty thousand. 
— Messrs. Moody and Sankey have closed 
their services In Brooklyn. 
— There are 1,730 distilleries in the United 
States and 2,724 hreweriee. 
— Alabama's new Constitution has been 
ratified by a large majority. 
— In Worcester, Mass., the police prohibited 
pool selling on the election. 
— Southerners are making oil from peanuts 
and It la said to rival olive oil. 
— The estimate of the cost of mail transpor¬ 
tation for next year is $16,0(10,000. 
A tunnel through Mont Blanc is projected 
to unite France and Italy via Geneva. 
— The entire expenses of the Bed Cloud in¬ 
vestigation amounted to about $17,000. 
— The result of the official Non’ York State 
canvass gives Bigelow 15,480 majority. 
— The Now York Sun will publish a Sunday 
edition after the opening of December. 
— A r.ewiston. Me., magistrate recently fined 
a young man $3 for profanity on Sunday. 
— The commissioner of education gives the 
expenditure iu 1874 for schools as $74,000,000. 
— A bottle of whisky, buried flfty years ago 
in Kentucky, was sold ttie other day for $12. 
— The treasure In private hands recently lost 
on the steamer Pacific amounted to $100,000. 
— A building 40 by 20 feot will be required to 
hold the Union and Confederate war records. 
— The New York Court of Appeals has dis¬ 
missed the appeals In both of the Tweed cases. 
— During the year 1871, the trade of England 
with the United States, amounted to £102,000,000. 
Eighteen Mormons living at Franklin, 
Idaho, have lately been indicted for polygamy. 
It is said that the loses sustained on Turk¬ 
ish securities since lust April amount to $100,- 
000,000. 
— Desertion from the German armies is said 
to be increasing, last year 82,418 men were 
missing. 
— The remains of Guibord were peacefully 
interred in the cemetery near Montreal on the 
16th inst. 
— The Canadian steamer Calcutta, was re¬ 
cently wrecked on Grosse Isle, and 23 persons 
were drowned. 
— Pennsylvania speut for liquor last year 
$152,633,342, and for schools and school pur¬ 
poses, $55,600,420. 
— Thirty-two suits against the Bank of Cali¬ 
fornia have been recently vacated with the con¬ 
sent of the parties. 
— The Bible Is now printed in no fewer than 
two hundred and ten languages. In 1854 it was 
printed in ouly fifty. 
— The estimated damage done in Loudon 
and neighborhood by the recent high tides 
amounts to $6,000,000. 
— New York reports a gross receipt of $12,- 
088,762.08 for public schools, $532,725 more than 
for the preceding year. 
— The quantity of lumber used for the con¬ 
struction of peach-boxes this year at Salisbury, 
Md., amounted to 2.000,000 feet. 
— The Washington Board of Health have 
refused permission to a man to kill a healthy 
horse to be salted down for food. 
— There are enrolled in the United States, 
about 8,000,000 school children. The average 
dally attendance is only 4,500,000. 
— The total cost of the postal service during 
the last fiscal year was $15,353,369, being $48,688 
less than that of the preceding year. 
— In spite of the reputed efforts of St. Patrick 
to banish snakes from Ireland, one of those 
animals lots lately been captured there. 
— The assets of the Unlou Ferry Company on 
Nov. 1 were $1,570,580.20; liabilities, Including 
capita! stock, $1,231,388.14 ; not earnings, $339,- 
191.76. 
— The Auburn, N. Y., True Press establish¬ 
ment was destroyed by fire resulting from the 
explosion of a lamp in the press-room on the 
12th lust. 
—The tide in the River Thames on the 15th 
inst., wtts the highest on record. Greenwich 
and the low lands along the river were partly 
inundated. 
— William Penn’s Bible Is in the possession 
of a lineal descendant, a Mrs. Meylert of Penn¬ 
sylvania. It will be a part of the Centennial 
Exposition. 
— The King of Italy has issued a decree grant¬ 
ing a subsidy of $38,000 gold to the Italian 
Committee in connection with the United l 
States Centennial Exhibition. 
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