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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS.<br><br> Beer sells for twenty-five cents a glass in Mexico.<br><br> FOREST fires have again been prevailing in sections of Long Island.<br><br> "THE best crop since the war" is the report from many parishes in Louisiana.<br><br> FIFTY cadets received their diplomas at the recent Commencement at West Point.<br><br> EACH one of the four Presidential candidates is over six feet high. English and Arthur are also six-footers.<br><br> THERE are 2,000,000 hives of bees in the United States, and the estimated annual revenue from them is $14,000,000.<br><br> MILWAUKEE and Indianapolis report their census complete. The former has a population of 118,181, and the latter 75,131-large gains in both cases.<br><br> DUSSELDORF, on the Rhine, is having, this summer, an industrial and art exhibition, which, it is claimed, is the largest ever held in the German Empire.<br><br> THE constructors of the railway up Mount Vesuvius have adopted the American double iron rope system as the best means for raising and lowering the trams.<br><br> THE day before the Fourth of July, 42,000 pounds of meat were placed in the ice-house at Manhattan Beach, Coney Island, in preparation for the expected rush.<br><br> CENSUS returns place the population of New York at 1,209,561; Philadelphia, 847,452; Brooklyn, 551,693; Chicago, 477,500; St. Louis, 377,000, Boston, 352,000; and Baltimore, 330,000.<br><br> THE State of Virginia hires out five hundred and twenty-five of her convicts to work on her railroads and other public improvements, for whom she receives twenty-five cents net each per day.<br><br> JAPANESE fans have been in such demand in England lately that last year 3,000,000 were exported from Hiogo [Hyogo] and Yokohama, whereas in former years the whole trade never exceeded 10,000.<br><br> T. A. Brecklebark estimates that in a single decade 500,000 persons engaged in industrial pursuits in Great Britain sustain personal injury or are killed; in mines, 300,000; in railroads, 70,000; and in factories, 180,000.<br><br> THERE are about eighty employes [employees] in the Dead Letter Office at Washington, and about eight thousand letters are daily received there. In general, the most valuable inclosures are found in letters which are not directed at all.<br><br> THE plan for utilizing Genesee Falls is really being carried out. The power is to be controlled by letting the water fall into perpendicular cylinders in such a manner as to compress air with tremendous force; and this air is to be conducted in pipes to various points for use in running machinery. The first novel application of the power will be to the propulsion of street cars. If the scheme proves successful, Niagara will be tried. |