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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. ---- Rome has had her first snowfall since 1871. ---- There are 1,000 Baptists in the Republic of Liberia. ---- Seventeen newspapers are published in Raleigh, N. C. [North Carolina]. ---- There are 330 Unitarian ministers in the United States. ---- Confucianism, not Buddhism, is the great religion of China. ---- Five million oranges were grown in Putnam county, Fla. [Florida], last year. ---- Venice is to be made accessible to carriage by a bridge from the mainland. ---- It is definitely stated that Gen. [General] Noyes, our Minister to France, has asked to be relieved. ---- Of the 3000 Episcopal ministers in the United States, 2,000 hold rectorships, and 525 are unemployed. ---- The Hood relief fund amounts to $10,953?, of which $10,500 have been invested in United States Bonds. ---- The total number of arrivals from foreign ports at Boston in 1879 was 2,533, an increase of 100 over 1878. ---- Max Muller classifies the world's religions as missionary and non-missionary, Christianity being the only former. ---- English Unitarians will commemorate William Ellery Channing's one hundredth birthday, April 7, 1880, by publishing 100,000 copies of his complete works, to be sold for a shilling each. ---- The old time Whigs in England think that Mr. Gladstone is a Liberal, only more so. In fact, he is too much of a Liberal for the Liberals, but the party at large continue to look to him as the "foremost man." ---- The largest stone quarried in 3000 years is said to be that which has been transported from Fox Island, Me. [Maine], at a cost of $7000, for the monument of Gen. [General] John Ellis Wool, the soldier of 1812, who left $50,000 to erect to the memory of himself and wife at Troy. The stone weighs 500,000 pounds. ---- Leadville boasts of aristocratic waiters. At the Grand Hotel is an ex-member of the New Jersey Legislature, whose letters bear the prefix "Hon." [Honorable]. At the Clarendon the guests are served at table by an ex-confederate General, a doctor of medicine, a lawyer, and an ex-Judge from Freeborn county, Minn. [Minnesota]Pittsburg Telegraph. ---- Maj.-Gen. [Major-General] Chamberlain is the first militia officer on whom the duties of Governor have devolved since this country was settled. His appointment was doubtless due to the fact that he is so universally esteemed as a man of the highest character and of the most perfect judgment. He made one of the best Governors that Maine ever had, and has won no less honor as President of Bowdoin College. N. Y. [New York] Mail. ---- Boston investors are turning their attention to mining properties in the new Southwest. This is due largely to the interest aroused by the sagacious enterprise of the Kansas and New Mexican railroad corporations. At the present moment there is a good deal of Boston money finding its way into New Mexico and southeast Arizona. ---- We observe a party of gentlemen from the Hub? in the Tombstone District, one being the ex-Collector of Boston, Mr. Simmons, and another, the publisher of the Boston Economist, Mr. Straine. ---- Last spring, the five children of M. B. Corbin, of Colorado, promised to earn money enough to pay for an organ if their father would buy one. The bargain was made, and as a capital, three dozen chickens and an acre of arable land were given them. The ground was planted with onions, and yielded the remarkable crop of three tons, for which $145 was received. The net receipts from the chickens was $55, making the total receipts $200. The organ cost $118, leaving a balance of $82 still in the children's treasury. The children are from 6 to 15 years of age, and worked throughout the season with great energy and perseverance, and hence deserved their success. |