Ten thousand a week is the
emigration record.
—Paper napkins, throe for a cent,
aro a Germany luxury.
England consumes more tea
than the United States.
—lllinois has ono mile of railroad
to every 754 inhabitants.
—lt takes 3,000 horses a year to
supply Paris restaurants.
—Thero are more than a million
paupers in England aud Wales.
—A breed of dogs that cannot
bark has been discovered in Australia.
—ln the Connecticut valley now
the staple crop is said to bo tobacco.
—lt is said that tho conneotiug
link between animal and vegetable
is hash.
—The wheat harvest of Franco
will be about one-fourth bolow the
average.
—Much of tho hail' now worn by
tho ladiu* is out from the heads of
convicts.
—Tho Swiss Miuistor at Yeddo,
Japan, says that every woman
throughout tho empire is able to
read, writo and cipher,
—At. a recent spiritual seance the
medium was asked what was tho
greatest amusement of spirits in tho
other world. Tho answer was,
•‘Reading the obituary notices.”
—ln Philadelphia, lately, a young
man named Fischer was amusing
himself by exploding musket cap*
under a hammer, when a fragment
struck a little girl in Iho nock,
inflicting a mortal injury.
—A man In Vermont has succeeded
in making a folding globe. It is hol
low, and can be shut up and carried
iu a small space. Much ingenuity is
displayed in the construction.
—Phillip 11., of Spain, attempted
to connect tho Pacific and Atlantic
oceans, by cutting a canal through
the Isthmus of Darien, fifty years
after tho discovery of America, but
failed. Thus it will be seen that tho
present ontorpriso has tbreo conturies
of failure boforo it.
