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Show INTERESTING FACTS. The spire of the Boston cathedral will be oOO feet high. Tli3 latest name for blonde hair Is "the liyht fantastic tow." There were 2,811 art Bchools in Great Britain in 1S73, attended by 281,-100 students. Jlr. Colfax says that Mr. Lincoln cracked joken to conceal traces of sadness sad-ness and anxiety. The Virginia tobacco crop of this year will probably be largest ever rained in the slate. The population of the Australian colonies has nearly doubled during tho last ten years. With 50,000 people, Charleston has but one daily newspaper, about as large as the Herald. Twenty-four greyhounds of choico breed were recently sold in England for upwards of $7,050. Savannah claims over 30,000 popu- ' lation and is the second cotton shipping ship-ping port in the country. Hon. Tliomaa Fitch has been elected elect-ed au honorary member of the society soci-ety ol Pacific Coast Pioneers. The money order business for the past year at the Denver postoffice has amounted to over $1,000,000. Miss Clarissa Johnston, a sister of the late confederate general, Albert Sydney Johnson, is a recipient of public pub-lic alms in Puducah, Ky. The Full MM Gazette has published some statistics to show that France consumes, in proportion to popula-tion, popula-tion, less coflee than any other nation. na-tion. In Chicago there is a revival of the ( old quarrel between coal dealers and coal buyers, the latter claiming a full tun, and the former giving but 2,000 pounds. A letter in the "ew York Tribune says: " Papa has given us three cents a day for not sucking our thumbs. We send $1 for a child in Kansas. " A drowsy Boston woman, who had been toying too long with Morpheus, threw a set of jewelry into the fire, under the impression that her hands were full of apple parings. The French are about to construct a monster telescope, which is to be only two feet shorter and six inches less in diameter than the celebrated instrument of Lord Rosse. St. Louis is to enjoy a sensation. Mine. Mollis E. Prescolt, the keeper of a bagnio, has announced a public lecture. lier subject is "Woman, her Friends and her Enemies." The laying cf rails over fifty-two miles of the North Pacific railroad has been completed, and the road practically opened for business from t?an Francisco to Tomales Bay, An English advertisement: "It is desired to place two young ladies, Hged 12 and 14, .very strong and healthy, under a lady who approves of and will thoroughly and duly administer ad-minister the birch rod. Terms most liberal." A. Hay ward, Esq., of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, made these royal Christmas gifts: To the Protestant Orphan Asylum, $5,000; the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, $5,000; to the Ladies' Protection and Relief Society, $5,000, and the liirls and Boys' Aid Society, $5,000; making a total ol $20,000. |