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Show FOltKH.N ITEMS. Jenny Lind is side. Homo has 230 convents. The Khedive has 23 palaces. Nilsson's husband is 36 years old, The Marquis of Lorno is preaching. Hcpworth Dixon is going to Japan. Cholera has appeared in the valley of Cashmere. Janauschek will return to America in December. Wagner's works arc to be represented at Munich for two years. Flax production in Ireland has fallen off 22 per cent, within a year. The Queen of the Belgians is happy over tho birth of a daughter. 12,205,000 tons of coal were exported from Great Briiaiu during last year London is to have a new suburb for working men, with 1,200 houses in it. An injured husband, Maj. McCraitb, has been paid $25,000 damages by an Irish conrL Spurgcon told Dr. Cuyler, recently, that he would rather bo huDg than write a discourse. Another British steamship company, to run vessels between England aod America, has been formed with a capital capi-tal of $5,000,000. About 12, COO men will tako part on each side in the forthcoming autumn manoeuvres in England, which this year take place on Salisbury Plain. The system of throwing open the English civil service to open competition competi-tion has been found to work well, and a higher order of candidates has been the result. The Port has strongly expressed its desire that the Roumanian government govern-ment should place tho Jews on a better fooling, and thus prevent foreign intervention. in-tervention. There are 21 1! establishments in Germany Ger-many CDk'aired in tho manufacture of steel, employing workmen. Last year l'iy,'.'51 tons were produced, valued at $lti,37,271. Tho London "Times " says tho cattle foot and mouth disease is in-. in-. crex-ini? to an alarming extent. Oili-L Oili-L cia'. returns show an increase of over 4,'kx) caca in iniect4.j districts during uio week ending August 2oth. |