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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. Iu 1888 there-were in Germany 37G-, 054 marriages, 1.S28.370 births aud 1,-!0lt,7uS 1,-!0lt,7uS deaths; in France, 170.848 marriages, mar-riages, 888,030 births and 8S57.807 deaths. The increase of Germany's population was therefore 018,581 in 1888, against C05;155 in 1887; Franco's increase of population, pop-ulation, 44,772 in 1888 against 50,5ii0 in 1887. Salzburg will shortly be the city of Mozart, as Bayrcuth is tho city of Wagner. Wag-ner. An opera house, in which only model performances of Mozart's operas will bo given, has been planned and the money for building it lias been raised, and before next summer the structure will bo well under way. It will seat 3,000 persons. Last year France herself produced only 2iJ,OO0,O00 hectolitres of wine and she alone consumed 45,000,000 hectolitres. hectoli-tres. As to how the necessary amount for exportation is made tho foreigner can console himself with the fact that he is more apt to get good wine than the Frenchman, the genuine article standing stand-ing exportation much better than adulterations. Co-operation has not been .successful iu Berlin. Thirty-live co-operative societies so-cieties have boen organized there for manufacturing purposes since 1808. Thirty of them wound up their affairs after an average existence of six years each. Five still exist. Tho various reasons for discontinuing business were lack of funds, differences of opinion among members, and dwindling away of membership. Great uumbers of fireflies are sparkling spark-ling in Staten Island every night now. They first mado their appearance a week or ten days ago, and they have multiplied exceedingly since then. This is considered a certain sign by all veteran fishermen that the weaklish will bite tremendously this year. What the connection may be between fireflies and weakfish they do uot attempt to explain. A company has been formed to rent out steamer chairs for one dollar for a trip across the ocean. The chairs are supplied with little tables designed to hold a plate, tumbler and a bottle. Several thousand of these rented chairs aro now in use, aud the demand for them is constantly increasing. The idea is that most travelers would rather pay one dollar for the rent of a steamer chiiir than buy one and be botherered with storing it when they get to Europe. Eu-rope. Prosper Crabbe, whose really important import-ant collection of pictures was sold two weeks ago, began life as a reporter on the Independence Beige. The editor soon told him that ho never would make a living as a newspaper man, and he became a stock broker and died worth !10, 000, 000 francs in money besides his other properties. Tho two highest priced pictures at his sale were Delacroix's Dela-croix's "Tiger Hunt," 70,000 francs, and Rembrandt's portrait of an admiral, 100,500 fraucs. Mosquitoes are scarcer ou Stateu Island than they have been in June for many a year. Last year at this times there were twenty mosquitoes for every one this year. Why this is so has not been satisfactorily explained, but it is an interesting fncp, in view of the recent discussion on the abolishing of mosquitoes, mosqui-toes, that great numbers of dragon flies have appeared oir the island this season sea-son moro than were ever seen there before. It is believed by many that they have eaten up nearly all the mosquitoes. mos-quitoes. A Senecal queen's printer, whose visit to Cleveland three weeks ago to see the Kogers typograph was noted in the Caudian papers, has reported to the governmment in favor of the Kogers machine as being the superior to any type setting ltiaohine yet produced, and he has recommended that the appropriation ap-propriation of $25,000 made by the last jiarliament for the purpose be expended in tho purchase of Kogers' machine from the Dominion Typograph Company Com-pany of Windsor, Canada, who are the licensors of the Cleveland company. com-pany. Recent writers ou Greenland say the Eskimos have become so crossed by frequent intermarriage with, the Dane's that Scandinavian , faces are as frequently fre-quently met as Eskimo in the native huts. At the preseut rate the native race of Greenland bids fair to disappear entirely within the eentury unless it is preserved in its purity by the isolated people of Smith's Sound or tho east coast. It is the old story of the stronger race absorbing the weaker, just as some of our Indian tribes are now more nearly white than red, and will doubtless doubt-less disappoar entirely, uot by annihilation, annihila-tion, but through absorption by the white race around them. |