She grieves
when alone.
sincerely who grieves
A new poem by Swinburne is an
nounced, to be entitled "The Statue of
Victor Hugo.
NEWS FN BRIEF.
Holland is not pleasant during the
summer months.
Yandalia was the capital of IllinoL
from 1813 until 183&
It rains three times as often in Ire
land as it does in Italy.
In England and Wales there are 440
persons to the square mile.
An autograph letter of Mozart has
been sold in Paris for $400.
An inebriate asylum for women has
been established in Chicago..
Marion. Ga,, has been for twenty
years without a school house.
On Cape Cod there are about fifteen
hundred Portuguese fishermen.
There are 68,600 colored children
in the public schools of Virginia.
Opium kills about 160,000 persons'
annually in China, it is estimated.
Cotton has been nsed for garments
in India for three thousand years.
An eloping couple at Hartford, Ct,
were a black man of 30 and a white girl
of 15.
Mississippi county. Mo., devotes
over 4,000 acres to watermelon raising
this year.
The snow bank in Tuckerman's ra
vine in the White Mountains, is now ten
feet deep.
It is proposed to raise the Lord
Mavor of Dublin's salary from $10,000
to $20,000.
Fechter's daughter will, it is said,
marry Bosquin, tenor of the Grand
Opera at Paris.
The Municipal Council of Paris in
tend to tax telegraph and telephone
wires in sewers.
The circulation of fiction from the
Boston Public Library is only 43 per
cent of the whole.
Thirty years ago it costs Massa
chusetts J4. 81 to educate each child,
now it costs $13,55.
The average price of prime mutton
in Melbourne throughent the year is five
cents, and beef six cents.
