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Show GENERAL ITEMS. In Paris velocipedes have to carry bells by day and a lantern by night. . Italy has 723 newspapers. In Florence alone over 100 periodicals find a sale. In the building of an edifice in Rome lor the minister of the interior, 100 workmen have been killed. Mr. Lindennan, director of the United States mints, estimates the present stock of specie in the country at $16d, 840,2-S. The dread of conscription has led the voung. Tartars of the Russian Black sea provinces to emigrate secretly to Turkey. The output of minerals in Great Britain and Ireland during 1S73 amounted in value to 5,479f4SG, or about $-290, 400, 000. . The secretary of war has asked for a special appropriation of $40,000 for tho protection of the banks of the Colorada river at Yuma depot from the action of the current. Some of the leading theatres in Germany propose to put a slop tu the system of recalls and oi throwing bouquets and wreaths on the stage during the progress of an opera or P" It is estimated that the total quantity quan-tity of game eaten in Paris in IS 3 was 20,i)00 tons; of butchers' meat 112,040 tons; 24,000 tons of fish; 14,000 tons of butter; -140,000,000 of egys, and 17,000.000 of OyatOH. A Burlington editor announces that Hammond converts whole towns at $;!00 a week and expenses, while even a brother cU-ruytnan of Galesburg arises iu his pulpit and threatens to "expose his trickeries and utter shameleesncs." An Alabama yuiing laJy tried to convince a correspondent of the New York Turns that Geneva was in France, and a gentleman who heard the conversation admonished the journalist us follows: "I reckon you must be mistaken about the situation of that town; Miss is mighty heavy on g'ograpby." Tigers for menageries are taken from theii; lairs before they are six months old, as they cannot be tamed after they are lull grown. The male is first shot, then the female, when the capture of the young ones is easy. There is a government reward in India In-dia of filty rupees for each tiger's head. The skin of a finely marked tiger will briDg a hundred rupees, and their claws are also bought for ornaments. A chililless London ladv just about to be confined was suddenly called to Dublin by news that her brother was dying. While travelling her child was born and died shortly after. Fearing her husband's displeasure she made great eliorts to procure a child about the same age to represent ns her own infant to her husband, and had almost secured the baby of a pauper woman, by paying her a sum of money, but the guardians induced the pauper not to give up her child. An officer of the Cuban army recently re-cently arrived in New York, informs the Hun that the patriot cause ie in a prosperous condition, the ranks of the army aie well maintained; the men are well armed and clothed; that desertions from the Spanish army to the Cubans have been numerous, and that a commissioner sent from Capt. General Concha to the republican government of Cuba to negotiate for a pacific settlement of the contest, was informed that the only basis on which negotiations could be opened was that of the independence of Cuba. |