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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS The legal tender notes outstanding on December 1st, amounted to $316,681,016. The internal revenue for the current fiscal year is estimated at $113,000,000, being an increase of $1,000,000. Potassium salts have been used for some time in Austria as manure, and have yielded, so far, better results than any other artificial manures. The Gladstone boom has begun in Scotland. The election for Mid-Lathian will be the most notable political event of the day in Great Britain. Kosnuth lately signed an agreement with a publishing company at Pesth to issue all his essays, memoirs and letters since 1850 supposed to be of general interest. The law of Congress reducing the tax upon tobacco and snuff resulted in a loss of $7,000,000 to the revenue last year without the consumers deriving one cent advance. This was the net gain to the trade. Only three thousand women registered for voting in Boston for school officers, notwithstanding the fact that the law forbids the smoking of tobacco by the men at the polls during the forenoon of the day election. Ten years ago the United States imported more than $500,000 worth of stationery, and exported only about $1,000 worth. During the past year stationery importabase footed up only to the value of $125,000 while stationery exports have exceeded $1,200,000 in value. The Boston Police Commissioners in whom is vested the power of licensing shows in that city, have decided to permit no performance by children. The case at issue was that of a juvenile "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company. A Massachusetts statute authorizes such a prohibition. A curious experiment was made with cats recently in Lottich, Germany. Thirty-seven of them were put into bags and taken several miles into the country, where they released. Within three hours the first cat had found its way home, and before twenty-four hours had elasped, every one of the others had returned. Seventy-four pupils are educated at the Sam. Houston Normal School at Huntsville, Texas, free of charge, to become teachers in the public schools. The Legislature has appropriated $11,000 of the school fund for this purpose, and the Peabody fund gave $6,000 more making $20,000 a year for the great and beneficent work. The increase of twenty per cent in the mail matter handled on the postal cars during the last fiscal year, shows forceibly the growth of the country. The large increase in the registration of packages is also gratifying, since it must proceed chiefly from the commercial traffic between the large cities and the interior. - N. Y. Tribune. |