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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS <br><br> There are 2,000 Indians living in Mississippi. Thunder can be heard at the distance of thirty miles. Arkansas ranks next to Texas as a cotton producing State. Planters are still picking cotton in some parts of Louisiana. Good placer diggings have been found near Shuck, Alaska Territory. Lightning can be seen by reflection at the distance of two hundred miles. The mean annual depth of rain that falls at the equator is ninety-six inches. One hundred thousand strangers are expected in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. The Union Theological Seminary has now one hundred and forty four students. Heat rarifies the air to such an extent that it may be made to occupy five or six hundred times the space it did before. From New Mexico, the stage line brought last year bullion to the amount of over 16,000 pounds, valued at $238,020. Ohio Wesleyan university has an attendance of five hundred students, the freshman class numbering nearly one hundred. The exodus of negroes to the North from Eastern Mississippi is believed to have been over 1,000 during the past three weeks. The exports of cotton from Fort Smith, Ark., during the present season have already amounted to over $1,000,000 in value. The Leadville bullion yield for the week ending January 1, was 615 tons. The silver value was $283,066; the lead, $61,452, a total of $343,371. The number of bars of bullion on hand was 4,141. The Boston society for the encouragement of studies at home, had on its books last year eight hundred and sixty-nine students, three hundred and seventy taking the course in English literature. Portions of the Atlantic ocean have been sounded to the depth of eight miles a distance much greater than the altitude of the highest mountain, Everest in Asia, which is five and a half miles. Assuming the temperature of the interior of the earth to increase uniformly as we descend at the rate of one degree in forty-six feet, at the depth of sixty miles it will amount to 180,000 degrees of Fahrenheit a degree of heat sufficient to fuse all known substances. In 1879, the failures in New York City numbered 460, with total liabilities of $16,383,932 and assets of $5,100,033. In 1878 there were 917 failures with liabilities amounting to $64,000,000, with assets of $18,000,000. The contrast between the report of these two years tells its own story of marked improvement in business. Representatives of Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Brown, Williams, Trinity, Boston University, Tufts, and Dartmouth are to meet this week to plan a modification of the ordinary method of examining candidates for entrance. They propose to arrange, in place of the individual examination of each college, a uniform examination [unreadable] same day for all the colleges. The heat does not increase as we rise above the earth nearer to the sun, but decreases rapidly until, beyond the regions of the atmospheres, in void, it is estimated the cold is about seventy degrees below zero. The line of perpetual frost at the equator is 15,000 feet altitude; 13,000 feet between the tropics; and 9,000 to 4,000 between the latitudes of forty degrees and forty nine degrees. |