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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. The first air pump was made in 1650. Scotland is twice as wealthy as Ireland. Gold was first discovered in California in 1848. Tennessee has 5, 612 public and 1, 287 private schools. Italian peasants are very polite to ladies who travel. "Pinafore" is the name of a new postoffice [post office] in Butler county, Pennsylvania. The exports of hides from Texas in a single year amounted to nearly $3,000,000. There has been no dancing in the White House since Mrs. Lincoln's time. Goat-skins worth $23,000 were shipped form Corpus Christi, Texas, last week. Ice has thickened on the Hudson, so our national drink is not in danger. - N.Y. Herald. The amount of lumber exported from Pensacola, Fla. [Florida], during January was 24,280,000 feet. The first national bank in the United States was incorporated by Congress, December 31, 1781. It is proposed to change the name of Central Park, New York, to Irving Park, in honor of Washington Irving. The fall of snow in South Carolina is believed to have killed the Hessian fly, which had begun to damage the wheat crop. The American Sunday-School Union has organized in the Southwest since the war 2, 706 new Sunday schools, with 113,606 scholars. Several gentlemen, especially young lawyers, of Boston, who live in suburban towns, ride to business in fair weather on bicycles. A Memphis dairyman, set a loaded gun inside his poultry-house in hope of punishing some chicken-thieves, and his wife, ignorant of the fact, was killed by it. About five hundred postal orders per day were sent form this country to Europe last year - indications of the amount of direct trade that is carried on in a small way. The number of drug stores at Hot springs, Arkansas, is exactly the same as the number of boarding-houses, and the number of undertakers is the same as the number of clergymen. A man with an awakened conscience handed $700 in bills to Rev. [Reverend] Dr. [Doctor] Howard Crosby, a citizen of New York, recently, to be deposited in the sub-treasury to the credit of the United States. Over six million citizen soldiers is the military strength of the United States, and all of them hard at work increasing the material wealth of the nation. What a contrast to the condition of affairs in the Old World. - Herald. Orange county, Texas, has eleven steam saw-mills, giving employment to 330 laborers. To supply these mills with timber from the forests of Sabine river requires from ?????????. The market for this lumber is found on the western coast and in the interior of the State. The Iowa House of Representatives, by a vote of nearly two to one, have decided to submit to the people a constitutional amendment in favor of making women eligible for election to the Legislature. The Governor of New York also recommends the Legislature of that State to enact laws permitting the choice of women as school trustees. It is noteworthy that, according to the statement of a reliable witness, the Roman Catholic Church in the west of Ireland does not seem to have fallen off greatly in spite of the prevailing distress. In the cathedral of Tuam the receipts are only 3 pounds less than last year, and in the country chapels the deficiency is said to be only a few shillings in each place. |