began to devote a moiety of bis salary
to the extinguishment of his debt, suc
ceeding so well that at the time of his
death a few years later, be bad reduced
tbe amount due to the comparatively
small figure of five hundred dollars!
Quite recently a Hindoo sued another
of that race for $20, the balance due of
$40, which was tbe principal and inter
of 10 advanced two years before.
From 75 to 200 per cent, are not at all
unusual rates of interest, and tbe re
sult is that the land is rapidly passing
into tbe hands of tbe usurers, tbe peo
ple being poor and generally in debt.
HIWS EI BRUT.
The average Englishman eats 205
pounds of meat a year.
A barber's shop is termed a "ton
sorial academy" in Halifax, N. S.
England began the cruelty to ani
mals movement as far back as 1760.
The keel of the British privateer
Dart, captured during the war of 1S12,
can now be seen above ground at New
port. A Lebanon county, Pennsylvania,
judge refuses boys admission to the
courthouse. He doesn't want them de
moralized. The widow of General Robert An
derson, of Fort Sumter fame, has taken
rooms at the Ebbitt House in Wash
ington for the Winter.
The Mayor of Savannah writes a
letter expressing gratitude for the aid
rendered the yellow fever sufferers, and
states that it is no longer required.
Vergennes. Vermont, the oldest
city in New England, is called the
smallest city in tbe world, its area
being less than two square miles.
Buffalo Bill, as a rifle shot, don't
appear to be a success, he having made
only thirteen out of a possible thirty
five, at Rochester recently.
