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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS The Zulu war has cost England over $22,000,000. Grant bought a "Robert E. Lee" hat at New Orleans. Tennessee has ninety-four counties and 153 newpapers. The dried fruit crop of North Carolina is valued at $400,000. Princeton College is to have a new telescope, at a cost of $25,000. The sugar-cane crop of Louisiana is said to be the finest ever known. Over 50,000 bales of cotton have been received at Dallas, Tex., this season. The oats crop in Florida is pronounced a failure, on account of rust. The Hinesville Gazette thinks that Georgia will cast 218,000 votes this year. It is estimated that $10,000,000 have been sent out of Texas this spring for cows. Gen. Wheeler, the Confederate cavalry commander, is writing a history of the war. The Canadian railways received over $10,000,000 last year for transporting American products. Within the past fifty years, 200,000 miles of railroad have been built in the world at a cost of $15,000,000,000. A Washington paper gives that city credit for 5,000 confirmed colored criminal, and 15,000 confirmed colored paupers. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, have put away for a rainy day some forty millions in Government bonds, has sailed for Europe to be gone six months. Paris is literally filled will violets. Cart-loads of the sweet scented flowers are to be found in every street, and every lady you meet has a purple bouquet fastened to her bodice. The ingenious guillotine built and used by a suicide at Chelsea, Mass., is on exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Boston. Children are not permitted to see it, but adults crowd in at ten cents apiece. A meeting of the London Society of arts has been discussing the subject of "The best route for a line of railway to India." The distance by one proposed route is about 3,800 miles from a western terminus at Constantinople, and the cost of construction about $50,000 a mile, the capital required being about $190,000,000. The coroner's investigation of the Madison Square Garden accident discloses that the new wall was not constructed according to the building law, and that the carelessness of the builders was equaled by that of the Building Department, which should have looked after them.- It was cheap and hasty work, with death at the end. Louis XIV, said to Massillon, after hearing him preach at Versailles: "?ther, I have heard many great orators in this chapel; I have been highly pleased with them; but for you, whenever I hear you, I go away displeased with myself, for I see more of my own character." This has been considered the finest encomium ever bestowed upon a preacher. According to official reports, the population of the Sandwich Islands amounted in 1878 to 57,985, showing an increase since the census of 1872 of 1,088. During the last five years the number of immigrants have risen from 5,306 to 10,477, while the number of native had decreased from 51,531 to 47,508. Of the foreigners in 1878, 833 were English, 1276 Americans and 5,916 Chinese. "I am rich enough," says Pope to Swift. "I can afford to give away a hundred pounds a year. I would not crawl upon the earth without doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it while I live and seeing another enjoy it. When I die I should be ashamed to leave enough for a monument, if a wanting friend was above ground." That speech of Pope is enough to immortalize him, dependently of his philosophic verse. |