Crop report from the northwest, with
few exception are of the most favorable
character.
Dubino the last twelve months the out
put of coal in Great Britain was 159,361,-
418 tons in which 520,052 colliers were en
gaged.
A female base-ball club has disbanded
in New Orleans from lack of support, and
the manager has been sent to the work
house as a vagrant.
The masons of Berlin, Germany, are
striking for 12 and half cents an hour. In
this country in the leading cities the
masons are striking for $3.50 and $1 a
day.
The popular notion that there are
scarcely any forests in Europe is
erroneous. The proportion of land cov
ered there by trees is 29 per cent., of
which Sweden. Norway and Russia furnish
the greater part.
As an illustration of the rapid growth
of Dakota towns, it is stated that when
the first postmaster of Rapid City, in
that territory, was commissioned April
12th, 1877. the office paid only SSO per
year. The present income Is $1,900 per
year, with a decided upward tendency.
A mi.io volumne bound in blue moroc
co, containing 172 autograph letters of
fiord Nelson to Hamilton, some written
with the right hand and others with the
left hand, with various copies of dispatch
es, traveling expenses Admirably docu
ments, was sold in London recently for
$1,725.
The paid baseball players throughout
the country number 1,000, and draw an
nual salaries aggregating $900,000. If to
this sum were added the expense of imbu
ing grounds, the salaries of managers,
gatekeepers, ticket sellers and others, the
liital would probably reach more fhausl,-
000,000.
