A drug store in Indiana recently sold 1,900 dollars worth of quinine in a week. ' New York has a " professor of " floral Binblems." In Boston a hearse without lanterns is considered very old fashioned. A locomotive consumes en the average forty-Eve gallons of water for every mile that it runs. To promote sleep put sixpenny worth of clean and fresh hops in your pillow case. The St. Lo'iia delinquent tax list occu pies 160 columns of the Time.* of that city. There is a wonderful girl in Ohio, who, irheni blindfolded,, can tell colors by touch. A citizen of Portland has a wedding unit i» which he has been married hv« times in thirty-six years. Xhe colossal statue of the Duke of Wel lington at Hyd« Park corner weighs 40 tons* and is nearly 30ft. high. The Japanese census shows only 3,006* criminals in a population of over A large crab, having teeth tike those of a horsey and limbs hve feet long, has been captured off, the Japanese coast. The sale of waste paper from the different public apartments of Ctreat Britain realises annually £16,000 a year. The net stamp duty on "playingcards" in the year ending 31st of March was £12,529. " Carnival" is derived from the latin words cttw fiesh> and cut* farewell, mean ing farewell to butchers'" meat. The Att(* Califomitm says the cost of living in Sun Francisco is higher than in any Northern City, with the possible eat cuptiott of New York. During the deep sea sounding in the Pacific, a depth of 4,63m> fathoms, nearly llvu and one-third miles, was found off Japan. The manufacture of carpets in Phtla dblphia is annually greater than in any other city in the world. Kiddermtnster used to take the palm. Wreaths of artificial foliage and ftowers mtuita of metal 1 , and carefully colored after nature, are used for wall decorations, and if native occasions at Paris.
