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Show Intelligence Items. President Avaellanda [Avellaneda], of Buenos Ayres [Aires], has resigned. President Hayes owns a wheat field of 200 acres in Dakota. Every day in this world the births exceed the deaths by 25,020. The cattle drive from Texas this year will realize about $3,000,000. The excess of exports from this country over the imports during July was $12,000,000. Boston's valuation by the Assessors shows an increase of $25,766,000 over that of last year. The quantity of cotton consumed in the world in 1878 was fifty-four times greater than in 1778. The attempt of a young physician of Lyons to fast fifteen days, was abandoned after one week. Gin Sling is the name of a Chinese student who has entered the Freshman class at Yale College. The gross income derived from tobacco by the farmers of the United States is about $22,000,000. New York's wealth in real and personal property has increased nearly $50,000,000 in the last fiscal year. A pigeon recently flew from Columbus, Ohio, to Jersey City Heights - 500 miles - in less than five hours. The Cleopatra shaft, brought from Egypt, and to be erected in New York is seventy feet long and weighs two hundred tons. American exports to China for the years 1877 and 1878 were valued at nearly $7,000,000, and the increase in 1879 was rapid and heavy. The population of Jacksonville, Fla., has long been supposed to be not less than 11,000 or 12,000. The census shows it to be not more than 7,500. Miss Lillie Muler, aged 18, was walking with a gentleman near Mount Joy, when a spark from his cigar set fire to her dress, and she was fatally burned. It costs one dollar per ton to get ice from Lake Winnipiseogee to Boston. More than twenty-nine tons have been shipped thus far this season. The number of immigrants landing at New York in the first half of 1880 was 177,000-19,000 more than in any previous six months for twenty-five years. At Princeton, Illinois, James H. Luby, for a wager of $500, has commenced a twenty-days' fast. He is allowed all the beer he can drink, but no food or water. Postoffice Department officials estimate the total deficiency for the present fiscal year at $2,000,000, and if it is kept within this amount, it will be less than for any previous year since 1767. The total value of petroleum and petroleum product export for the past year was in round numbers, $31,000,000, being a falling off of $3,000,000, as compared with the year preceding. A shrewd farm-hand bought for $160 the big meteor which fell in Emmet county Iowa, last year, and was laughed at by his comrades for what they conceived to be his idiocy. He has now sold it to the British Museum for $6,500. The family of a young man, who, six years ago left his home in Pittsburg to visit the White Mountains, heard of the finding of what was left of the skeleton [next line obscured by fold] of his body, with a few crumbling papers and clothes. It is supposed he lost his way and perished from cold and exhaustion. The work of prosecuting the spurious medical colleges which have disgraced Philadelphia for some years and flooded the land with quacks, has culminated in the demolition of five swindling concerns with high-sounding names, and the arrest of several members of their "faculties." One of these rascals had papers in his possession which evidenced the sale of 3,000 sheep-skins. One-half ton of bogus diplomas were captured by the police. |