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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. Fifteen miles of new sewers have been laid in Memphis. There are now 97,000 miles of submarine telegraph cable in working order. Mr. Benjamin P. Cheney of Boston has given $50,000 to Dartmouth College. There is in Berlin a sapphire weighing nearly a pound, and valued at some $15,000,000. Strikes in the cotton-spinning districts of France have thrown 15,000 workmen out of employment. The Astor Library is thirty-one years old and in a prosperous condition, the number of volumes on its shelves being 189,111. The receipt of the American Bible Society for May were $28,635.30; the payments $45,563.34, and the volumes issued 111,971. A project is now being pushed to run an underground railroad under Broadway, New York. The scheme is backed by French capitalists. Of the 36,900,000 population of France, 650,000 are Protestants. It is Catholic power that makes expulsion of the Jesuits possible. The "spelling reform" movement has reached Congress. The House Committee on Education report on favor of a Commission on Orthography. A resolution of thanks to President and Mrs. Hayes for their position on the Sunday and temperance questions was passed by the Presbyterian General Assembly. The 130,000 German citizens of Philadelphia have only forty-four Evangelical churches with services in their own language, and the majority of them spend Sunday in beer gardens. A brick, the size of an ordinary cigar-box, made of counterfeit nickels collected in the streetcar cash boxes, is one of the curiosities which adorns the new streetcar office in Memphis. Bishop Simpson will start next month, going first to Yokohama, then to Fou Chou and Peking, making the tour of Japan and China in about five months. He is in the best of health and spirits. Although Mr. Gladstone is active as a member of the Church of England, his relations with the Dissenters are cordial, and he has become a leader for disestablishing the Episcopal Church in Ireland. The Raleigh (N.C.) (North Carolina) Observer predicts that the census will show a greater percent increase of native population in North Carolina than in any other State - in fact, than the whole of New England put together. Paris has 365 miles of paved streets. Stone blocks are used on 26-1/2 miles, macadam on 82 miles, and asphalt on 19 miles. The macadam has been abandoned on account of the expense of maintaining it in good order and the responsibility of keeping it free from mud or dust. The business and professional intentions of the graduating class at Harvard College are thus summarized: Law, 70; business, 25; teaching, 13; medicine, 13; ministry, 3; study, 2; undecided, 31; civil engineering, private secretary, library work, electrical engineer, 1 each. The religious views of he class are: Unitarian, 31; Episcopalian, 34, Orthodox, 22; Presbyterian, 4; Catholic, 3; Baptist, 3; Universalist, 1; Swedenborgian, 1; undecided, 27; liberal, 15; none, 12. The Pyramids of Egypt are being destroyed. The most important ravages are made by those in authority, who finding stone to hand, use it for the purpose of building new palaces. People of inferior rank follow their example. Those who visit these wonderful, erections will not seldom find camels standing in the shadow, and receiving loads of the square white limestone. It is not easy to see how this can be stopped. All the government of that district seem to have but one aim, and are utterly careless of the results. |