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Show Intelligence Items Forty passenger-trains arrive at Saratoga from the south, daily, crowded The Chinese Army is estimated all the way from 30,000 to 200,000 men, which indicates that nobody know much about the Chinese Army. The study of book-keeping has been made compulsory for two hours and a half each week in the first grade of the San Francisco grammar schools. There are in England five hundred branches of the London Young Women's Christian Association. They are of great service in obtaining employment for young women who need help. Mrs. Ira Buckley of Mt. Lebanon, N. H. [New Hampshire] has made 100 pounds of butter, during the past three months, from the milk of one cow, and has not been sparing of the use of milk and cream in the family either The Maryland and Delaware peninsula last week furnished 1,000,000 baskets of peaches for market. Of these three-fifths went to New York and the remainder to Philadelphia and Baltimore. Some idea of what it costs the people of the United States to keep cool, when the dog-star rages, may be had in the fact that the State of Maine received over $5,000,000 annually for the ice that she sends to various portions of the country. The consumption of intoxicating liquors in Great Britain was seventy million dollars less last that the year before. How much was due to the influence4 of temperance principles it is not explained. After much discussion, the school authorities of Hudson, N. Y. [New York,] have determined to introduce co-education in the schools of that city. The sexes have heretofore been taught in separate buildings. Co-education has just been forbidden by the School Board of Louisville, Ky. [Kentucky] Utah's population has increased sixty-five perce3nt in ten years. it is now numbering 111,000, all but 32,000 Mormons. The increase of the non Mormon population in the ten years has been at the rate of two hundred per cent The rush of Americans home from Europe has begun, and from now until October the incoming steamers will be crowded, It is very difficult in Liverpool to secure a passage by any popular line prior to that time, and the majority of those who have berths engaged are the possessors of excursion tickets The work of completing the Washington Monument has been begun. The first stone in the reconstruction was laid in the presence4 of President Hayes, who placed in the cement some coins marked with the date and his initials. Over a hundred men are employed, and it is expected that thirty feet will be added to the monument before December. Dr. W. A. P. Martin, who has been for more than ten years at the head of the Imperial College in Pekin???Peking, China, arrived in New York last month. Dr. Martin has been granted two years' absence by the Chinese government, with a view of collecting materials for a report on the state of education in Europe and America. |