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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. BOSTON has the largest Swedenborgian church in the world. <br><br> NEARLY twelve thousand volumes were added to the Harvard library last year. <br><br> KANSAS has now a school population of 300,000; the increase since last year is 15,532. <br><br> THE LUTHERANS expect to gain 18,000 communicants in Nebraska this year by Scandinavian immigration. <br><br> BEER-DRINKERS of the United States are said to swallow 40,000 pounds of glycerine per year in their favorite beverage. Upwards of 10,000 carpenters were on a strike in Paris at last accounts, as were many of the sawyers and painters of the city. <br><br> THE RUSSIAN missionaries in Japan having succeeded in converting 40,000 Japanese to their faith, a bishop is to be sent to Eddo by the St. Petersburg Synod. <br><br> THE TEN cent Testament of the American Bible Society has been printed the last year at the rate of 1,000 copies a day, and yet the demand has not been fully met. <br><br> OF THE 85,423 white children in Cincinnati, 28,253 attend the public schools. Of the 2,190 colored children, 1,197 are in the public schools, 993 not being in any school. <br><br> ONLY ONE out of every ten members of the British House of Commons is a lawyer, while three out of every four members of our House of Representatives have pleaded at the bar. A NEW telegraphic invention sends eight different messages on one wire at the same time. For the dissemination of neighborhood gossip it would beat the liveliest old lady in the land. <br><br> PROFESSOR Burnham has decided that the Lick Observatory shall be built upon Mount Hamilton, in Santa Clara County, California. Professor Newcomb agrees with him upon the suitability of this site. <br><br> THIRTY-FOUR years ago the Catholic Church at Martinsburg, Va., was broken into and robbed of the altar ornament and candlesticks. Last Monday the latter were found by a hunter buried in the woods near Martinsburg. <br><br> THE BOSTON Fruit and Flower Mission made the past season 22,609 distributions of flowers and 1,359 of fruits and vegetables, to 24 hospitals and charitable homes, to 18 large workrooms, and to many sick beds and homes of poverty. <br><br> THE ANNUAL report of the General Land Office discloses the fact that the homestead entries for the past financial year exceeded the entries in any previous one for a considerable period. The area homesteaded last year was 5,260,111 acres-quite an extensive territory. <br><br> MANY OF the mines on the mountains around Leadville, Col., have suspended work for the winter, being inaccessible in consequence of snow. Those that can be worked are carried on with difficulty, and prospecting is not easy. The ground is now covered from two feet to eight feet with snow. <br><br> DURING September the receipts of the American Bible Society were: From auxiliary societies, churches and persons, $8,030.37; rents, $888.65; legacies, $5,266.28; for books sold, $10,600.20; total, $24,791.50. Disbursements, $31,816.61. The issues for September were 77,559 volumes. <br><br> IT IS NOW proposed to tunnel Mont. Blanc. This may somewhat detract from the romance of the old mountain, but it will be a blessing to indolent American tourists, who will undoubtedly find the "doing" of the mountain in palace care much less fatiguing than the present method.-Detroit Free Press. <br><br> THE NEW YORK Elevated Road (Manhattan) has, as is well known, its cheap trains morning and evening, between certain hours, for the use of working men and women. But not all of these go out at seven for their day's labor, and so, for school teachers, the road has issued its cheap tickets, good between school and residence stations only, on which the teachers may ride at the same cost as other workers. <br><br> THE BISHOP of Gloucester has reported to the British and foreign Bible society that parts of the Bible have been translated into two hundred tongues. The tongues, however, into which the entire Bible has been rendered are only fifty-six in number. Last year the income of this society was $1,069,055. Less than one-half the sum came from the sale of Bibles. |