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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. The Vatican is to have a school of diplomacy. Chicago has about 4,000 liquor saloons to its about 400,000 inhabitants. A Chinese lad in the mission school at Peking repeats the entire New Testament without a mistake. Policemen of Cincinnati are to attempt the suppression of Sunday evening entertainment in that city. Peter Cooper has just published a pamphlet in which he advocates Christianity as the true science of life. President Hayes is to be petitioned to appoint a number of Roman Catholic chaplains for the Army and Navy. Chief Joseph's band of captive Nez Perces contains one hundred Indians who wish to join a Presbyterian church. A county in Texas said to have expended last year $3,000 for preaching, $100,000 for tobacco, and $300,000 for whisky. There are in all England between fifty thousand and sixty thousand Jews, of whom about thirty thousand live in London. Human blood corpuscles average 3,200 to an inch, a hog's 4,200. But fortunately you can tell a hog without the aid of science. A contemporary states that this country eats one-third of the Turkish opium crop. That's what's the matter with Congress. N. Y. [New York] Mail. Some females have just been arrested in Kentucky for the manufacture of illicit whisky. This is the first recorded instance of a woman keeping still. Ex. [Examiner] Even France has an obsolete law against Sunday labor. It was passed in 1815, and the Chamber of Deputies has just repealed it by a vote of 335 to 102, and it awaits the action of the Senate. The electric light has successfully crossed the ocean, a Liverpool steamer, just in, having been lit with it during the whole voyage. Unlike other light, it traveled at the rate of only twelve or fifteen miles an hour. Detroit Free Press. The month of February, 1880, the shortest in the year, contains five Sundays, an they happen to be exactly the same dates as the Sundays in the month of August. Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day and the Fourth of July all fall on Sundays. As Castroville, Texas, recently, a vein of coal eight feet thick was encountered in digging a well, and in the coal were found pieces of wood and leaves, astonishingly fresh and green, and what is more remarkable, part of a glass bracelet of beautiful design and fine workmanship. Three times as many immigrants arrived at the port of New York in November, 1879, as arrived in the same month the year previous, and during the twelve months ending with last month there were 181,000 immigrants, as compared with 120,000 during the twelve months ending with November, 1878. The outlook abroad encourages a belief that this large influx of population will continue for years. Two months of frost would expel all tramps form California. Already they are migrating south, and may be heard ???? the Mexican line. Why they do not all seek a domicile in Mexico passeth [passes] all understanding. In that country work is not a condition of existence, and yet Mexicans of the lower ranks live to a mellow old age, and enjoy life all the time. Mexico is a paradise for tramps. Post. Twelve hundred elephants a year are slaughtered to provide the annual demand for ivory in one knife factory at Sheffield, and the cutlery people are anxiously asking where knife handles are coming from when the animal shall be extinguished. Celluloid or some new discovery may answer the question, or perhaps by that time knives will be disused, and food be cut with platinum wire heated red by electricity. There is no more reason why knives should always do the cutting than why horses hoofs or flails should always have done the thrashing. Detroit Free Press. |