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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. Eight percent of the habitable houses in Glasglow are empty. A high agricultural authority estimates the loss on English crops at $125,000,000. The Methodist Conference of southern Illinois refused to admit a woman as a member, although she was a pastor of a church. There has been a great decline in the adulteration of food in England since the employment of public analysis. Nearly every county now has one. What is known as the great cattle raising belt of Colorado is estimated to contain 15,000,000 head of horned cattle, worth upwards of $300,000,000. The First Congregational Church of Salem, Mass., celebrated the 250th anniversary of its organization on the 17th inst. It was the first Protestant church on the continent. At the close of the war, a young man named Crouch hired out to herd sheep for $12 a month, in Frio County, Texas. He now owns 150,000 acres of fenced land, 4,000 cattle and 7,000 sheep. Hangings occur in Texas just now with greater rapidity than murders. The law is catching up, and in the present frame of the public mind is likely to get ahead. -- Austin Statesman. In the best schools of Holland there is always, besides the teacher, an attendant who sees to the personal condition of each child in matters of cleanliness and tidiness upon daily entering the school. The ten little orphans left by General Hood are likely to be well provided for. Subscriptions are being taken up in different parts of the country for their support. There are three pairs of twins among the ten. New York is suffering from a rather peculiar famine. It is a brick famine. Bricks are so scarce that building operations have in many cases ceased. If the contractors could only utilize the bricks that are to be found in the hats of New Yorkers, there would be no dearth of building material. Detroit Press. In London a policeman must not wear a mustache or a beard. The policemen of that city don't like the rule and are writing indignant letters to the papers about it. Of course no such regulation exists in New York, as the police authorities there have no desire to make the force a gang of barefaced scoundrels. The term of office of the Supreme Court Justices of California begins on Monday, the fifth day of January, 1880. The six Associate Judges must decide by lot so that two of them will go out of office at the end of four years, two others at the end of eight years, and the remaining two at the end of twelve years. Vacancies in this office are to be filled by gubernatorial appointment. The California Governor-elect holds office for three years from the 5th day of January, 1880, as also the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Surveyor General. The Governor's salary is $6,000 per annum, and the other officers named, $3,000, except the Lieutenant Governor, who receives only the [illegible] for the Speaker of the Assembly. Now that the flooding of the Sahara project is at rest, they talk of running a little railroad about 1,200 miles long to connect the Mediterranean with the Niger River. If the head-light of a locomotive ever illuminates the Dark Continent, its terrors will speedily be a thing of the past. The engine whistle is one of the greatest civilizers in the world, even though Detroit objects to its dulcet strain within the city limits -- Detroit Press. |