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Show . WAYSIDE GLEANINGS. The Italian government raises f 15,000,030 yearly by holding lotteries. Petitions to the Rritish bouse of commons com-mons must be written, not printed. Three miles an hour is about the average of the gulf stream, though at certain places it attains a speed of fifty-four utiles. There are about 1,100 men employed in the Bank of Eugland, and tbeir united salaries, sal-aries, including pensions, amount to about $1,500,000 per annum. Chimneys are scarce in the City of Mexico. Mex-ico. There nre not ten dwelling houses that have them. Charcoal is the only fuel used for cooking and beating. Wages are so low in India that men may be hired for two dollars a month to do household house-hold work. A dollar is a great sum to them and one meal a day the rule. The boundary controversy between Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts and New Hampshire, after 200 years, has beeB finally settled. The early surveyors did not understand the variations varia-tions of the magnetic; needle, hence the quarrel. The finest white pearls are from India, the Persian gulf aud Panama; the finest black and gray pearls from the coast, of Lower California. Beautiful pink aud red pearls are often secreted by the common creek mussels, |