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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. Nanaimo has street lamps. ---- The number of visitors to Switzerland this season, was 1,400,000. ---- The French Government will not allow Methodist ministers to preach to the soldiers. ---- Georgia is said not to have a single millionaire, and yet is the most prosperous Southern State. ---- Wild tea grows in abundance in Arkansas county, Ark. [Arkansas], and the people will discard the Chinese article. ---- The rice crop of South Carolina for the year is estimated at 44,000 tierces, and that of Georgia at 26,000 tierces. ---- The Montreal Witness will not advertise a theater, but gives under the head of "Announcements" the "ads" of church socials, etc. ---- Nearly 5,000 women and girls, of whom 1,502 are under sixteen years old, are still employed about the coal mines of Great Britain. ---- In addition to his Orphanage for boys at Stockwell, Mr. Spurgeon has opened one for girls, to accommodate, when completed, 250 girls. ---- Two hundred and twenty-nine societies in various lands are working together in the effort toward the repression of cruelty to animals. ---- The author of "Baby Mine" has sued some Boston music publishers for $20,000 on account of the excessive sales of that much-whistled tune. ---- The School Board of Covington, Ky. [Kentucky], is trying to stop draw poker among the pupils; but the public lottery drawings continue without opposition. ---- The Kaufman (Tex. [Texas]) Times says that fifty-six public free schools have been organized in that country for the present year, educating 1,913 children. ---- A National School of Art Wood-Carving has been established in England to revive the neglected art of carving in that country. It offers twelve free scholarships. ---- It is a good illustration of "the power of the littles" that the receipts of the British government last year from its penny stamps was [pound symbol] 825,539 [pounds], 11s. [shillings], 1d [pence], or over $1,127,000. ---- Texas owes $5,200,000, of which $1,000,000 belongs to the school fund, and in bonds held in the State Treasury. The interest on the public debt amounts to $109,000 a year. ---- John B. Gough reached home last week after his fifteen months' visit to England where he went to rest. We wonder what he would have done if he had gone to work. ---- Over 600 paintings, the works of distinguished artists of the sixteenth century, have been discovered in government buildings in Florence, and are to be placed in the Uffizi gallery. ---- Eton College, England, has established a factory, a building of three floors in which various mechanical appliances are to be erected, so that boys may be taught practical use of tools. ---- New York is, after all, to have its obelisk, as the Egyptian government has delivered the celebrated Cleopatra's Needle to a United States naval officer, and it will soon start on its long journey. ---- The trial of a copyright lawsuit in Washington brings out the fact that one printer has, within a year, furnished thousands of counterfeits of foreign champagne labels to put on American wine. ---- A Cleveland fire engine, with four men on it, was driven off an open drawbridge forty feet into the water. The men were rescued, but the horses were held to the bottom by the heavy machine and drowned. ---- Rev. [Reverend] Washington Gladden, in a recent talk to the boys of Springfield, Mass. [Massachusetts], told them that seventy-four of eighty-eight of the prominent business men of that city had their early training upon farms or in poverty. ---- The novel engineering feat of building a bridge on shore and then shoving it across the river has been accomplished at Dinard, France. The structure is 31 2 feet long, weighs over 200 tons, and was projected into its place with twelve strong windlasses. ---- Boston not only kills dogs, but it massacres cats. From July until October, this year, 710 dogs suddenly departed this life in the Hub, and they were accompanied by 632 cats, whose alleged nine lives had no more effect in saving them than the ca-nine lives of the dogs. --Detroit Free Press. |