Show NEWS ITEMS tim THE french expedition against corea has shown that that country was more civilized than was believed to be the case they make their own arms and even breech loaders constructed on the principle of sniders Sn iders gun they manufacture facture their own gunpowder and excellent silk the coun country try also possesses silver mines THE following incident related by the boston traveler contains contu ins facts creditable to all concerned A team belonging to bowers pratt co heavily loaded with iron while passing passin through congress street become bedded imbedded ImI im lIdded in the snow the humane driver instead of lashing his horses procured a shovel and cleared away the snow from the runners then stepping up to the shaft horse horsey he said now billy we are in a bad fix do all you can will you the horse apparently understood the appeal rubbed his head against the driver as if in assent the team was successfully started without a blow being struck A well known gentleman in state stale st at having witnessed the scene was so pleased that on returning to his office he immediately addressed a note to the owner of the team enclosing a ten dollar dillwith bill with a request that it be bei given to the driver who treated his horse so kindly findly 11 A paper sass pays we have some celebrated runners iii lii in the united states but scarcely equal to a young oung mexican thirty three years of or age named gehla who 1 lives ilves 1 v es at hidalgo Hid also in southern chihuahua chihuahua he has been known to beat a man on horseback for a distance of thirty miles he has often made one hundred and fifty miles in twenty four hours A man lately gave him five dollars to carry a letter fifty miles and bring him an answer he did it in twenty two hours taking as he thought plenty of time there bein belu being i g no great hurry the last fifty miles he lie made slowly in seven hours from prom this may be gained some idea of the tho trained system of montezuma and the peruvian incas M NATOLI minister of public instruction st in italy has instituted a comparison between the public libraries in europe and their contents he says that the public libraries of great britain contains volumes being in the proportion of six volumes to every persons while in italy the proportion was volumes to every loo pe persons in france there was vol voi volumes or volumes per cent of population lation in in austria volumes or 69 69 gg volumes percent per cent of population in prussia volumes or tio rio volumes per cent of population in russia volumes or 13 illume percent of population in bavaria volumes or volumes per cent of population and in belgium 0 volumes or volumes per cent of population SUICIDES KT IX palus paris our french neighbors were once fond of saying that suicides were more numerous in england than in any otner part odthe of the world and they attributed that fact to the mental depression produced by our damp and foggy climate the british 31 medical edical journal has been examining french official documents and publishes an analysis from which it would appear that in gay sunshiny paris parts itself the suicides are terribly frequent so probably we may dismiss the atmospheric theory altogether in 1865 persons committed suicide in paris the large majority being males in this country we believe the reverse would be found to be the case females being most disposed to the fearful crime but in paris the male suicides were in proportion of four to one of the females and it is very noticeable that the proportion increases with age to such an extent that at 60 and upwards there are five times more male suicides and two and a half times more female suicides than at the ages 1525 15 25 are aeto we to conclude that the parisian becomes wearier of life and more hopeless more willing to shuffle off the mortal coil cou 11 the older he grows and that the wretched wretched despair which leads to self murder is twice as powerful with the elderly male as the female of corresponding years very sad suggestions occur to the mind and the subject has intense interest for those who watch and philosophise philo sophise on the strange passions which agitate poor boor poor humanity london paper A DOUBLE LIGHTED GLOW worm A new glowworm glow worm with two fires has been found in the arand grand chaco argentine republic william perkins F B R G S writes from rosario rosanno Eo sarno sario I 1 1 I think I 1 have made a discovery in natural history I 1 have found the female of the most moat extraordinary Elat eride ever heard of or at least that I 1 know of it is a most brilliant glowworm one inch and a half long with two fires the body emits a most vivid flame of the ordinary greenish phosphorescent color while the head presents the appear appearance amee of a bright glowing 1 l red coal of fire the reflection on ai leco leeo of paper is also of the two colors I 1 ne never ver saw anything sa so beautiful THERE were illegitimate births in england last year |