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Show (TUKENT FACTS. jj Out of the 3,500 saloons of Chicago, anly l,yS7 are paying licenses. Kossuth was recently defeated as a candidate for the diet of Hungary. The Chicago water works aro now : pumping an average of 41,000,000 a day. Bismarck is nearly bald, having only three hairs on the top of his head. All tho money voted Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been raised and paid over. An Alabamian who lost a hat on James Buchanan's election, paid ttie wager last week. Of the 450,611 colored inhabitants of Louisiana, it appears that 384,027 are unable to read and write. A Chicago company with $1,000,-is $1,000,-is being organized to operate the cattle cat-tle trade between that city and the I JJItUUB. The new capital to the Christian Union newspaper to tho extent of $150,000 has been raised, and the entire amount is promised. In 1S57 the number of Berlin women wo-men placed under the supervision of I police was 11,307; in I860 this number num-ber had risen to 23,466, and in 1S70 to 73,907. American passenger cars are being introduced in England. The Midland railroad has running thirty-si Pullman Pull-man cars and thirty-two ordinary American passenger cars. The Washington board of health declares the decaying wooden pavements pave-ments ol that city as dangerous in engendering en-gendering zymotic diseases, such as typhoid and malaria fevera.d'iptheria, There are forty-one mills in Fall River, Mass., with a capital of $14,-840,000. $14,-840,000. The mills contain 1,192.- I 536 spindles, and 20.0S3 looms. The population of the town in 1870 was California produces $21,000,000 a year in gold and silver.and none of her mines are stocked. They are in tho hands of individuals who do not gamble upon the stock board ol California Cali-fornia street. Charlie Ross' father says that ho has spent all his property and has incurred debts besides in endeavoring to find his lost boy. His brother-in-law has also aided him to the amount of several thousands. In England timber is treated by forcing into its pores by hydraulic 'pressure tho creosote oil distilled from gas tar. A tie thus prepared will lust twenty years. In this country the average life of a railroad tie is four years. Mrs. Tilton and her mother, Mrs. Morse, are living at a house on Madison Mad-ison street, Brooklyn. They had a kind of house warming there recently, re-cently, at which the Plymouthites appeared in force, and a sympathetic purse of $100 was subscribed to Mrs. Til ton. The Egyptian government is making mak-ing active preparations for the representation rep-resentation of the products of that country in tho centennial. $5,000 have been appropriated to defray the expense of the commission in Egvpt, and $60,000 for the Philadelphia committee. In view of the fact that over a million dollars is tost to the government govern-ment by the use of washed Btamps, a correspondent suggests the putting together on a line with the postage stamp the two parts of the envelopo, so as to prevent the contents from passing under the part whereon the stamp is affixed, and then perforating or piercing holes through both stamp and envelope, which will destroy the stamp without injuring the letter.- |