Tha Paris National Library contains, ac cording to a report of the head librarian,! 2.07S 000 volumes. The Munioh Library has about 800 000. that of Bsrlin, 700 000, that of Dmsden 500 000, that of Vienna 300,000. The Vatican Library is relatively small, bufr exceedingly important, as it contains not fewer than 23,000 valuable manusoripta. There is Borne difference of opinion as to tho pronunciation of the word "Eiffel." Those who have learned 3erman naturally, call it Ifie, sounding the ias in idle ; but there are others who pronounce it Effel. It reminds one of the good old North-country story of the two boys who applied to an elderly man as to whether v either " ongbt to be pronounced *'eether M or "eythor." Hifl unprejudiced reply was *'Aythe* '11 do."

Mailer's Looomotive worts in Munioh are bmldiug a double compound tender locomo tive for the St. Gothard Railway, whioh, they maintain, will ba the largest and heaviest railway engine in the world. It weighs no lean than 65 tons. The curious thing is that this large old work is several miles distant from the neareßt line of rails, and that tbe materials and produots are oarried to and fro on carts drawn by ozen or by the tr&otior> engine.
