In General. —Boston has 753 lawyers. —Ohio lacks twenty of having one hundred thousand dogs. —Forty-one cases of school slates have been sent to Japan by a Pennsyl vania firm. —DMore fire-engines have been sold since the Chicago fire than in a year be fore. —A Texas serpent exhibited its lack of the traditional wisdom by swallowing a China nest-egg. —The lobster factory at Prospect Har bor, Me., has packed 188,000 cans of lob sters the present year. —The old question, Where is the happiest land?” is answered at last. Os wego, N. Y., has never had a base-ball ciab. —A man has been convicted at Nor ristown, Pa., of stealing a danger-lamp from the front of a locomotive whilst the locomotive was in motion. Through tickets for around the world are now furnished for $1,145 in gold, and the distance by the conven tional route, 23,600 miles, is made in 81 Jdays. —At Birmingham, near Pittsburgh, they were burning the bedding upon which a man had died of small pox, when the old mother of the deceased rushed into the flames, and snatched a roll of bills worth €SOO from the mat tress. —The sarcophagus sent by the Vice roy of Egypt as a present to the city of New York, has arrived. It is eight feet loug, four wide and four deep, weighing over three tons. It will be putin Cen tral Park Museum. Itarrived just in time for Tammany. —A jour tailor, named Jimmy Yolk, ninety-four years old, is now traversing Obio as a professional tramp. He has been on the tramp for seventy-five years, and has visited every State in the Union many times, walking on an average 3,000 miles every year. He has good eyesight vet, and professes to be able to work at his trade. He has just returned from little walk into Nova Scotia, and is now en route for Texas. Scraps of Science. —ln Lincoln county, Nevada, is a imountain of salt, pure, solid and trans parent. Inearly days—when the Mor mons had to rely solely on their own resources—they used flakes from this mountain for window-panes instead of glass, —Rusty straw is ouc of the most dan gerous of blood poisons. It induces dis tember, it vitiates the blood, reduces the condition of the animal, takes away the appetite, and opens the door for cholic, skin diseases, swellings and fevers. It is only fit for litter. —DM. Devergie, a French chemist, finds that water containing only one-four thousandth of its weight of carbolic acid sufficed for the disinfection of the dead house” in Paris during the hottest weather, when it contained six or seven bodies. —The spectrum of Encke’s comet has been seen and measured at Harvard Observatory. It consists of three bright lines and a faint continuous spectrum, fainter than the continuous spectrum of the great nebula in Orion, as seen with the same instrument. It appears from this that it is a gaseouns bod;;', emitting light, and not merely reflecting it. —The origin of the twelve astronomi cal symbols which indicate the twelve signs of the zodiac is ingeniously ex plained by Rev. T. H. Broome, of Nor folk, England, who shows that each of these symbols is formed of the line or lines which include the principal stars of the coustellation or sign which it stands for. The same author thinks he has dis covered the origin of the characters of the Ilebrew alphabet, in the configura tions of the constellations. —Lord Rosse still continues his ex periments on the heat of the stars, but the resulis up to this date appear to us ancertain. Indeed, experiments made thirty years ago by Professor T. Henry, show how difficult must be such deter minations, for he found that the heat received on a thermometric apparatus diminished with the increased elevation of the portion of skyto which the instru ment was exposed. This last effect is so great and variable that it will be difficult to allow for it so as to obtain compara ble results from different stars. Foreign. Greyfriavs Bobby,” the Edinburgh dog, that insisted on sleeping ten years on his master’s grave, is to have a red granite monument erected to him, at the expense of Lady Burdett Coutts. It is to be a drinking fountain for dogs, and to be seven feet high, and have a bronze figure of Gregfriars Bobby on the sum mit. A plate beneath is to commemorate the authentic facts of Bobby’s history. —The two _hundredth anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great will occur on June 11, 1872, and the Russians in tend to open a great polytechnic exhibi tion in Moscow on that day. All nations are invited to contribute. The Russian Steam Trading and Navigation Company will forward goods, freight free, and the railways will carry at reduced rates goods intended for the exhibition. —A valuable relic of antiquity has, says the Levant Herald, lately been dis covered in the grounds of the Russian pilgrim’s monastery outside the walls of Jerusalem. Itis a monolith, only half complete. From a description in the his tory of Flavius Joseghus, it is believed to be a column intended for the decora tion of the ancient Temple of Solomon; but for that, as the column split while it was worked, it was left unfinished, the lower part of it remaining in a rough state, —An English traveler describes a Mystery called the Creation,” which he saw performed at Bamberg, in Ger ‘many, in 1783, According to his account, it was a grotesque affair. Young priests had the wings of geese tied on their l shoulders to personate angels. Adam ap peaved on the scene in a big curled wig and a brocade morning-gown. Among the animals that passed before him to re «oeive their names, was a well shod horse, pige with rings in their noses, and a mastift with a brass collar. A cow’s rib-] bone had been provided for the forma #ion of Eve; but the mastiff spied it ont, grabbed it, and carrvied it off. The an gels tried to whistle him back, but, not sacceeding, they chased him, gave hima ‘kicking, and recovered the bone, which they pTaccd under a trap-door by the side of the sleeping Adam, whence soon emerged a lanky priest ina loose robe! to personate Eve, t Heto Adbertisements, St N 9 MISS SAWYER'S SALVE. R 2 A At 3& N NN R A NN N\l SBE N e A\ RS IR NN\ N IR IS N N N A N A S R NN Al I l ERE you have a salve combining soothing and healing properties, with no dangerous ingred ient. A remedy at hand for the many pains and aches, wounds and bruises to which fl¥-sh is heir. Is more casily applied than many other remedies, never producing bad effect, but always relieving pain, however severe. 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