All Sorts

Never apologize for a long letter; you only acid to its length. Statistics sho'ff that India is tlie tbird wheat-producing eountry in the world. Many flour milis Lave been built in Alabama during the past twelve months, and the wheat erop this year promises to be very good. TiiEctnsusof the " Old Catholics" in Germany reveáis an aggregato membership in their churches of something less than fifty-fonr thousand. The Michigan Salt Association, including nine-tcnths of the manufacturera of the State, have shipped 267,627 barrels of snit this season to date. Two THorsxKD sheep were lately sold in Adelaide, South Australia, at 25 cents a head. This is the effect of the drought. Droughts and flood ai-e the curse of tliat country. The most northerly telegraph station in the world is eetabliBhed at Gjesvar, a Norwegiau fishing station, near the North Cape, in latitude 71 degrees and 12 minutes north. A real Ohinaman was introduced iu a farce in a San Francisco theater. He was very successfnl in his portrayal of his own f unny pecnlinrities, and his ' ' pigeon English" espeeially made a hit AccoRDiNQ to the returns obtained by the royal Irish constabulary and the Dublin pólice, 37,587 persons emignited f rom Ireland in 1870. Yet the population appears to have increased 10,352 iu that year. In the Rhode Island Supreme Coiu-t a verdict was rendered for $100,000 against the New York, Boston and Providenco Railroad Companv, for the loss of life resnltiug from the Richmond switch disaster. Robebt Sickues, of Shaftesbury, Vt., fllled a bushei basket with 300 hailstones, one of which weighed 10i ounces, that feil in a terrific hail-storm that pnssed over Shaftesbury and the northom part of Bennington recently. Dallas, Tex., rejoices in a human hyena in the form of an undertaker. He dug into the grave of a young man whom he had buried, and took away the rosewood coffln in which the oorpse lay, because he had doubte as to whether he would get pay for it. There's depravity for you. A New Obleaks geuius has invented the "Infallible boy-bouncer and spnnker." The naughty boy who is stealing a ride on the rear platform of the conductorless car is grnaped by the " bouncer and spanker," spanietl well, and then depositad in the street. The driver starts the contrivance. The New York Central and Hudson River Bailroad Coinpany have been ex perimenting for some time past to dis cover how long a loaomotive can be run with due regard to eeonomy, without re pairs. It ia found thnt locomotive No 90 has run 70, 000 miles in eleven month without going to a repair shop. Birds killed on the Western prairies packed closely with paper in barrels.ant without any freezing or other artilieia process of preservation, now go regularl; to Leadenhall, and are sold and eaten ii the dining-rooms of Londou and the West side by side with the much more expensive partridges and fowls vrliich are reared in England. The valuatiou of Boston is to be re duced this year $60,000,000, making a reduction of $100,000,000 witliin two years. It is claimed that the valuation for the purposes of taxation of real estáte should be what it will bring at a forcee sale, and that for some years past the land of Boston has been much above this. The printers of Portemouth, England having under considera tion a project to erect a monument to the late Charle Dickens in his native town, au applica tion was made to the queen for her pat ronage. Her Majesty declined the re quest, stating that she has never nssist ed in tlie erection of a memorial to any person. The printers determined to abandon the scheme. A Russian commissariat officer a Odessa was detected adulfcerating flou about to be sent to the army with lime and other substunees. He was immedi ately tried, and shot within twenty-fou hours after the discovery took place. The Russian Government trust that this suni mary execution will put a stop to these practices, which caused so much suffer ing to the Russian soldiers during the Crimean war. Mrs. Dean's four babies have pro duced great excitement in St. Louis fonr babies at a birth being rathf r a re markable circumstance anwhere. One of them is dead, but great lionors are bestowed upou the three survivors. On 'Change a subscription for their benefi yielded $127; the pólice added $12.50 and the whole has been invested for tht benefit of this comparatively uumerous little family. At the recent closing exercises of the Hampton (Va.) Normal and Industrial School (colored), Mrs. President Hayes, who was one of the coinmittee to award prizes, gave an independent prizo of $5 to a pupil for a composition entitled " A Temperance Story," she deeming this the most meritorious essay - the balance öf the committee having decided tliatthe regular prize of $5 sliould properly go to aoiother pupil. M. T. Hatoh, editor of the Newport (Vt. ) Palladium pubhshed an article derogatory to one Miss Hadloek. A day ür two afterward, as Hatch was passing uloug the stroet, Miss Hiullock threw a ! liaiiilful of red pepper in Lis eyes, oxmu pletely bliuding hini, and theu drew e large horsewhip and gave him a aevert thrashing in the face and upon his head and flually rotten-egged him. Both aro respectably connected. The negroes living with the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations were made free by the treaties of 1856, but the treaties die not stipulate that the negroes shonld beeome members of the tribe, 130 that thej simply remain citizens of the Uniteci Stiltes, who are legally residents of Üie Indian Territory ; that is, they cannot vote, cannot sue, cannot sit upon a jury, aud have no interest in the schools and courts of the country in whieh they were born and bred. SINOEB AND POET. " Make me a slimmer song, for muRic moot, Aud you flhall hear it when yon come again - It it ruil or lifc And Btinphine and of flowrra." " It ïiillBt be not" ho laughjug pjxtki1, aud thon Struck the wbite koys and iilnjed a joyful tune. 'Tn'oe wintor. lut I rhougüt The bil'dH 1icj:;iii to hii;;. I waited till tho froztn bmln Bhonld blooni ; For then, I Rnilf my bouíí wero botter tuncd- Catching a aound of uitrtli From the awakening world. O frirnd - dear frii lid ! Tho winter hos gone by lint Htill tliy )■ tV iiong will not be. glad, Wliilo the bright flowc.rB of .hine lilossiiiiL aboe thv tli'ave.