Show STmtALL ENCYCLOPEDIA Of the 7559 convictsnow In the prisons of Massachusetts 1ttti are Wmea DUlng tIme year just ended there was an Increase of 6s in the number of women and a decrease de-crease of 155 men In France the oxen that work In th fields are regularly sung to js an encour agenient to exertion and no peasant has the simplest doubt but that the aimimata listen to him With pleasure Fiftythree vessels with an aggregate tonnage of nearly 3OO may be nodes to the American merchant marine through the annexation of Hawaii Nearly all of them are ownee in this country but fly the Hawaiian flag A professional school of electriety is to be established at St Germain near Paris to be called the Ampere institute The school is intended to furnish laborers and foremen with an electrical education and firstclass instruction will be given In both theory and practice A bronze column Inscribed with a treaty between the Aetoilans nd Acarna nlans made In time third cexury berore Chlrst has been found In the Dorlc temple discovered at Themos by the Greek r chaeoiogical society The terra cotta groups that adorned the gable ends of the temple have also been fonnd At the sale of the Morrison cameos In London a Greek gold ring set with an intagilo of Bacehus from Tarsus was sold for 1150 another ring with a figure of Baccimus for 925 the signet of Asander king of the Bosphorus from Kertclm for 2OO the Sessa ringfor 725 and a fine intagilo bust of Domitia for 420 Sakal a seaport town near Osaka Japan Ja-pan promises to btcome tne Sheutd of the east A company has been formed to engage in the cutlery trade there This city has had from tIme Immemorial a high reputation for its cutlery but hitherto the want of machinery has militated against the cheapening of the production A xmost remarkable convent is to b fdund In the catacombs of the Russtim cathedral at Kiev Deep down beneath the magnificent cathedral are miles of subtwranean corridors lined with cells In whIch 1fCO ascetics perform their daily devotion and duties live eat and sleep in th grim company of their dead pre dcesaors Tw rival newsp pers at Wnrrensburg Mo having found the town too small to support both have entered Into a novel agreement for a divIsion of the spoils One has uspended publication tmntii July 1 1352 an which date the other will enter into a lethargic state and leave a clear 1eid for the one which is now c0matoan |