The Mormons expect 1.000 converts
from London next m utb, cornprUiaj a
numlier of families and aliout 3(H) nj
niprried wom.ui
The administrator of th- Mark Hoi-
kins estate in San Fraucisco was re
quired to give a bon 1 i:i t!w sum of
$13,000,000.
A paper mill at Holyoko, Mils. ,
made 24,500 pounds of paper in twenty
four hours on one machine the bi-je'-it
run on record.
A colored tailor from North Carolina,
is said to have made $00,000 in Boston
since the war. He gives t-mjdoymont to
over 100 persons,
Some of the Policeuiau in Montreal
complain that they can't kvp their
hands warm with woolen gloves aiid ask
for fur ones.
Emmons Blaine the ex-Senator's
youngest son, is a clerk in a railrond
office at Fond da Lac, Wis. He is study
ing the business.
The residence of !-uuator Ben Kill,
at Athens Ga., has leeii sold to Profes
sor. Speer, of the University of Georgia
It originally coot $30,000. '
Tne cotton S'ates consume 42,2oJ,
244 bushels more wheat than thev
raise, and pay to the Xorth for wheat,
com, oats, aud hay, $1."0,000.IKM. an
nually. Maryland's latest achievement is u
diamond-track terrapin wliL-b weiyh
five pounds and two ounces and whose
bottom shell measires 8; inches in
length.
Los Angeles County, Cal., claims
9 500,000 grape-vines Waring, and 3,
000.000 planted last winter; aud tk,000
bearing orange trees, and 100,000 to
begin next year.
Out of 1,000 000,000 letters deliv
ered bv the General Post Office, in Lon
don, Engiand,the proportion cf missing
property and nou-proivrty letters are
only 04 per cent
Princess Louise's determination to
pass tiie whiter on this comment has led
many American society people to select
the Canadian Capital as their place oi
winter residence.
