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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS.<br><br> THE first balloon ascent was made in 1785.<br><br> AMERICA'S exports exceeded the imports over $40,000,000 in October last.<br><br> THE EXTENSION of the Utah Southern is expected to reach Milford within thirty days.<br><br> THE EXPLOSIVE force of closely confined gunpowder is six and a half tons to the square inch.<br><br> ORGANS are said to have been first introduced into churches by Pope Vitalianus, about A. D. 1670.<br><br> THE FIRST society for the exclusive purpose of circulating the Bible, was organized in 1805, under the name of "British and Foreign Bible Society."<br><br> THE SOUTHERN cotton crop this year is estimated at 5,000,000 bales, and the tobacco crop at 600,000,000 pounds, both being larger than in any previous year.<br><br> THE UNION Pacific has now seven hundred miles of steel rails, and it will not be long before its entire track between Omaha and Ogden will be laid with steel.<br><br> A BODY projected from the surface of the moon, with a velocity of about 7,700 feet per second, would be detached from that satellite and brought to the earth by terrestrial gravitation.<br><br> THE TEACHERS in the primary departments of the nine Leadville schools receive $60 per month, and those in the intermediate departments get $70. The schools are excellent in work and spirit.<br><br> THE IOWA Senate has passed a bill fixing a fine of $2,500 and two years' imprisonment as a penalty for grave-robbing, and making an attempt to rob punishable the same as an actual robbery.<br><br> THERE IS just now much discussion over the teaching of German in the public schools of Cleveland, diverse citizens being disposed to imitate the example of Chicago, and discard the study.<br><br> IT IS STATED that since 1870 Mississippi has spent upon Alcorn university and the two colored normal schools the sum of $290,700. This is exclusive of the expenditures for the colored public schools.<br><br> THE SUPREME Court of Ohio has decided that to write a dunning letter to a creditor on a postal card is illegal, for the reason that such a public method of dunning is damaging to the credit of the person addressed.<br><br> A STOCK company has been formed at Leavenworth, Kansas, representing $25,000 for the purpose of manufacturing sugar and syrup from corn. It will go into operations at once, will employ about one hundred and fifty hands and consume one thousand bushels of corn daily.<br><br> IT IS SAID that four million three hundred thousand and three hundred head of cattle now roam the Texan ranches. New York follows in point of numbers, with a bovine population of two million one hundred thousand and four hundred. California leads in sheep, with six million six hundred and seventy thousand and six hundred.<br><br> THE GERMAN papers publish the following figures concerning the newspapers and periodicals in existence: In Germany there are 3,778; in Austria, 1,200; in England, 2,500; in France, 2,000; in Italy, 1,926; in Russia, 500. Altogether there are in Europe 13,600 newspapers and periodicals. In Asia there are 388; in Africa, 50; in American 9,129; and in Australia, 100. The number for the whole world is 23,290. |