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Show ODDS A"D ESDS. : If there is anything HWIoiii in thw column, please tlo nol nd it. ! The rice crop at Cupe Fear, X. C, !uj estimated at 10,000 bushels. Cincinnati is to have a zoological garden extending over sixty-eix acres. ! Two Deer Lodge, Mont., hrewers Imakean average ot 1,200 gallons of beer e'cry month. Tho new Ilepuiic is the best New York paper to clip from, and ttiat cpeaka volumes in n taror. The Manchester, X. II., cotton mills appear to be flourishing. Two ot them realized net prolita of over half a million dollars. In Ohio the farmers are unable to plow for wheat and com, while at Savannah. Ua., the river hasrot been so high for twenty yean. Dr. Haggert. of Canada, recently testified that he, in a recent election, had paid wives from $-" to 25 to influence in-fluence the rotes of their husbands. . Harvard University, at Camljridge, Maes., possesses a collection ofo.lJOO choice engravings, by tho most eminent emin-ent Italian, Dutch and tierman masters. mas-ters. A great railway authority says that neither a railway nor comer grocery can be made profitable if its capital be allowed to remain idle fifteen or twenty hours a day." Bishop Walsh, of Canada, iu confirming con-firming a lot of boys the other day, made them take the temperance, pledge. He also made the girls take a pledge to abstain from "excess in drees." A St. Paul editor is rendy to "receive "re-ceive wool, hay, buttter, wheat, pumpkins, snake roots, elecampane, ginsiug, slippery elm bark or anything any-thing else that grows' in payment for subscription. The Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington, Wash-ington, D.C., is the most richly endowed en-dowed art gallery in the United Suites. The cost of the building is $600,000. The endowment fund is little short of $1,000,000, and the present annual income is about $55,-000. $55,-000. The steamboats on the Erie canal are beating the railways in the delivery deliv-ery of freight. One of them has made the trip from Utica and Syracuse Syra-cuse iu thirteen hours, which is set down as the fastest canal time on record. re-cord. . Some naval officers think the Pen-sacola Pen-sacola navy yard should be abolished before any other, as it is the grave yard of th service. Yellow (ever is a perininent disease there. This year every officer stationed at the yard save two died from it. Wm. A. Blanchnrd, an ancient-puhiiaher, ancient-puhiiaher, died in Philadelphia last week, entered the celebrated estab-ment estab-ment ol Mathew Carey, in his 12th yenr.and continued with this remarkable remark-able family of political ecooomibts and publishers for half a century. In WatertowD, X. Y., the mill hands complain of "a tall, ghostly form, which appears to them in the twilight as they go home from work." Probably it is a plot of economical boarding house keepprs to destroy the appetite of the young ladies. The man who recently purchased the government monitors at Peusacola and put in a claim for their use in Xew Orleans at $5,000 a day, has withdrawn it, the a:ile to him not having been approved by the yovern-meut, yovern-meut, fearing that he might loose his property. Salem, Mass., celebrated on the 17th instant the centennial anniversary anniver-sary ot the meeting of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts General Court in that town, which called together by Gen. Gage, which announced" itself as the tinst Provincial Congress, and threw oil" the yoke ol oppression. |