The Imperial Council has sanctioned the plan of building the Siberian rail* road. The work will begin imme diatelyi The entire ooat of the enter prise ia estimated at about 400,000,000 rubles. The road will unite the interior of Siberia with the Pacifio Ocean and will be very advantageous for strategic purposes. The fastest mile a single man has travelled by various methods of loco motion is, to date, aa follows: Swim ming, 26.52; walking 6.23; snow shoes, 5 39| ; rowing, 5.01 ; run ning, 4.12£ ; tricycle, 249 2-5; bioycle, 2 29 4-45; skating, 2.12 3-5; trotting horse, 2.08f ; running horse, 1.35; railroad train, 40 J seconds; balloon, pneumatic tube and electri city records are yet to be made. Iv the days when Lord Byron was culling on Greece to awake, and was uoing tereral other foolish things over theie, an American drummer from Vermont w»b doing the country. He waa near the battle of Missolonghi in 1824. When the fight was over the American wandered o?er the battle field in searoh of relic 3. Ha cauae upon a lite infant playing amongst the slain. The glory of Greece was m the j face of the child. It needed attention, and the Vermoater picked it up, cared for it, brought id to America, reared and educated the waif of the field of Miußolongh 1. The name of the Ver monter waa Miller. The ohild of Greece wai given his name. This child of Greece is now the member of Congress from the Oshkoßh district, Leomdaß M. M Her. Yon Moltke, at ninety, rises at 5 o'clock, makes bis own cup of coffee over a spirit-lamp, and busies himself with garden and farm till 10, when ha takes a bowl of soup, or a bitcuit, with a glass of wine, for his second break fast, after which he attends to Ma cor respondence and other business till 1. From Ito2 he lies down. At 2be dines sparingly, and works again till friends drop io, with whom he talks or walki until his 8 o'clock tea, and at 10 he is in bed. He attribuiea his clear head and good health to h;s regular and abstemioua habits. The oft-told story of Napoleon and the sentinel repeated itself ii a curious manner a short time ago at L^ekou, the favorite residence of the King and Queen of the Belgian*. 