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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. <br><br> Henry Ward Beecher is familiar with Renan's "Life of Christ," and can recite it from memory. <br><br> Mme. Christine Nilsson, before leaving Madrid, received the photographs of the king and queen of Spain, with an affectionate inscription; also, a big pearl in a shell of diamonds as a necklace. <br><br> Among the women who vote at the school elections at Concord, N.H. [New Hampshire], is the widow of ex-Gov. [Governor] Isaac Hill. Mrs. Hill is 91 years of age. Mrs. Burnise Jones, another voter, is 95 years of age. <br><br> Sound travels at the rate of one thousand one hundred and forty-two feet per second - about thirteen miles in a minute. So that if we hear a clap of thunder half a minute after the flash, we may calculate that the discharge of electricity is six and a half miles off. <br><br> IN one second time - in one beat of the pendulum of a clock - light travels two hundred thousand miles. Were a cannon ball sent toward the sun, and were it to maintain a full speed, it would be twenty years in reaching it - and yet light travels through this space in seven of eight minutes. <br><br> There are 100 Indian pupils at the school established by the Government in the old cavalry barracks at Carlisle, Pa. [Pennsylvania]. They have made great progress in their studies, and nearly all can spell correctly English words of one syllable. The boys publish a newspaper called the Big Morning Star, and are organized into three military companies, which do sentinel duty and elect their own officers. <br><br> "Postmaster-General Key," says a Washington correspondent, "always has a pleasant word for everybody, and is very generally liked. He is a large, heavy man, with closely cropped gray whiskers and hair, a round, solid head, and a face which always looks smiling. He dresses in a very simple manner. A black frock coat with velvet collar, dark trousers, low collar with a small bit of black ribbon to serve as a necktie, and a rather rusty-looking silk hat make up his costume." <br><br> Mr. Tennyson, while he greatly admires ladies, has an invincible repugnance to hearing them recite his poetry. He went to an afternoon tea in London last season, at which a certain fair lady who wished to do him honor, rose and ???? recite one of his poems. The irascible poet endured it as long [missing] he stopped the poor woman [missing] gesture and immediately [began to] deliver the poem himself in serious [missing] orotund way. |